DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 29 2007 | open data, blogs, licensing, guidelinesJune 27th, 2007: "As the name should make clear this is a guide to licensing data aimed particularly at those who want to make their data open. The guide is currently located on the wiki so that anyone can edit and update it:"
http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenDataLicensing
For example, MIT deposit license is there.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 27 2008 | blogs, data curation, large scale data, open data
Interesting item about how the volume of generated astronomy data has surpassed the ability of scientists to analyse it, and so how they have enlisted the public (amateur astronomers) to help.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 21 2008 | open data, geospatial data, blogs, report
A short and sweet summary of the Cambridge report sizing up the UK Trading Funds (such as the Met Office, Land Registry and the Ordnance Survey) and their business models. Bottom line? Opening up the data vaults at these agencies "could benefit the economy to the tune of net £164m." Link through to the full report and on to the Guardian's Free Our Data Campaign.
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 23 2008 | research data, open data, science, blogs
Open Access Interview with Peter Murray-Rust (Univ. Cambridge) discussing (amongst other things) the Open Data movement
ShareViewed: 7 Times - DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 15 2007 | blogs, intellectual property, geospatial data, open data
A blog item advocating the end of the commercialisation of the postcode databases which allow plotting of particular postcode units on a map through an XY grid reference, and combining with all sorts of geo-referenced data. Compares to the US situation of free zip code access. Also mentions the movement for building up IP-free maps from individuals using GPS in their areas.
ShareViewed: 6 Times - DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 12 2007 | blogs, research data, open data
This item criticises the effort going into "shiny front-ends" for data projects, focusing on the point that "the data is primary, the interface secondary" and that raw data (ASCII, XML, SQL dumps) is the most desirable format.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 10 2007 | open data, policy, blogs
This is a collection of pages and links about the new Open Data Commons draft licence. There are two principal licences, the database licence and the factual information licence. Both are collected here.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 30 2007 | open data, blogs
"The case for sharing methods is, at least on the surface, easier to make than sharing data. A community can really benefit from having all those tips and tricks available. You put yours up and I’ll put mine up means everyone benefits. But if there is something that gives you a critical competitive advantage then how easy is that going to be to give up?"
Quoted: Science in the open - An openwetware blog on the challenges of open and connected science - DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 24 2007 | open data, data sharing, blogs, articles
This is the blog of the Guardian's campaign "for free public access to data about the UK and its citizens". Ordnance Survey in particular is targeted for its status as a trading fund and restrictive license conditions (for sharing data). Links to relevant Guardian articles.
- jisc_amcgregor - Jul 02 2007
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