DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 10 2009 | science, licensing, legal, open data, data publishingA fascinating debate has emerged regarding open data licenses. Rufus Pollock from the Open Knowledge Foundation has called into question the stance promoted by John Wilbanks from Open Science Commons and others that a dedication to the public domain is the best way to make your data open. This is a summary of a recent debate that threaded across the Open Knowledge Foundation's mailing list.
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 06 2009 | licensing, website, statistics, open data
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 22 2008 | institutional repositories, policy, usa, open access, publishing, licensing, presentation
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 24 2007 | geospatial data, licensing, data sharing, data management, institutional repositories, data archives, project, report
The EDINA GRADE project deliverables, including a report on Geospatial data sharing behaviour in UKHE, Charlotte Waelde's groundbreaking report on licensing of geospatial databases (this challenged the Ordnance Survey view that their data is covered by copyright rather than simply the EU Database Directive), Pauline Simpson's survey or 'baseline audit' of geospatial data in IRs, and a compendium of derived geospatial data in UKHE.
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.
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