veebiandmed

Veebiandmed is a term in Estonian that denotes data derived from the internet. It covers content and metadata obtained from web pages, online services, social media, and other digital sources. The concept is used across research, journalism, public administration, and data analytics to study online phenomena such as information diffusion, trends, and network structures.

Collection and processing: Veebiandmed can be gathered by automated web crawling, public and private APIs, data dumps, and user-generated content streams. The web’s dynamic nature means snapshots can be incomplete, duplicate, or out of date. Data may be structured, semi-structured, or unstructured and frequently requires cleaning, deduplication, normalization, and linkage with other data.

Formats and interoperability: Common formats include JSON, CSV, XML, RDF, and HTML. Metadata frameworks such as schema.org or Dublin Core are often used to improve interoperability. Data pipelines may integrate veebiandmed with other datasets for analysis or visualization.

Legal and ethical considerations: Collecting veebiandmed raises copyright, terms of service, and privacy questions. Respect for robots.txt and rate limits, as well as anonymization and minimization of personal data, are important. Provenance and data quality are critical for reproducibility.

Access and licensing: Some veebiandmed is released as open data under permissive licenses; other sources remain restricted. Open data portals, data commons, and API endpoints are common access points, often with descriptive metadata to support reuse.