Formats
Open Data Bizkaia is committed to the openness of data based on open standards, which are those that fulfil the following criteria:
- they are public, and their use does not involve any difficulty in access.
- their use and application are not subject to the payment of any intellectual or industrial property rights.
The following are the formats most commonly used:
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CSV
For displaying data in table format, with the values in columns being separated by commas and those in rows by line breaks.
CSV
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ODS / XLS
Spreadsheet formats (open in the case of ODS and proprietary in the case of Microsoft XLS) that display information in cells arranged in rows and columns. Each cell contains data or a formula with relative, absolute or mixed references to other cells.
ODS
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GML
XML grammar for modelling, transacting and storing geographic information.
GML
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KML
XML grammar for displaying geographic data in 3D. The files tend to be distributed in KMZ format.
KML
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JSON
Very popular data-interchange notation based on a simplified version of the JavaScript notation..
JSON
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RDF
Model of display for the description of resources following the rules of the Semantics Web.
RDF
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RSS
XML grammar for facilitating the distribution of content and updates.
RSS
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SHP
Proprietary format for spatial data that has become a de facto standard for storing both the location of geographic features and the attributes associated with them.
SHP
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WMS
Web service format for producing spatially referenced data maps in a dynamic manner based on geographic data.
WMS
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WFS
Standard service that provides a communication interface to interact with the geographical objects served by the WMS standard, such as editing, querying or downloading a geographical object.
WFS
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XML
General markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.
XML
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TSV
Tab-separated values file.
TSV
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ICS
File with information about calendars.
ICS
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XLSX
Open file and standard format of spreadsheet that contains information in cells arranged in rows and columns. The cells can contain data or a formula with relative, absolute or mixed references to other cells.
XLSX
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ZIP
ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed.
ZIP