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Cloud

Data stored ‘in the cloud’ is handled by a hosting company, relieving the data ...

GeoJSON

GeoJSON is an open standard format designed for representing simple geographical ...

Git

Git is a software for tracking changes ("version control") in any set of files – ...

GitHub

GitHub is a cloud-based version-control and collaboration platform for software ...

Interoperability

Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system that can work with ...

JavaScript

JavaScript is a dynamic programming language that is mostly used for web ...

JSON

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an open standard file format, and data ...

React

React (also known as React.js or ReactJS) is an open-source, front end, ...

SaaS

Software as a service (or SaaS) is a way of delivering applications over the ...

Server

In computing, a server is a piece of computer hardware or software (computer ...

SPARQL

SPARQL is a query language for databases. It allows retrieval and manipulation ...

Spreadsheet

A spreadsheet is an application for organizing, analysing, and ...

URI / URL

A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a unique sequence of characters that ...

Web application

A web application or web app is computer program that runs on a web ...

XLS(X)

Microsoft Excel files are typically stored with .xls or .xlsx file extensions as ...

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