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 - Aug 26 2008 | Open Access, Open Science, open data, MIT
Report from the Boston Globe regarding MIT researchers posting 'raw scientific data' on an online website. This article introduces the open access concept to a wide audience - to quote the researcher, "We're a generation who expects all information is a Google search away,".... "Not only is it a Google search away, but it's also released immediately. As soon as it happens, the video is up on YouTube and on all the blogs. The old model feels kind of crazy when you're used to this instant information."
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 01 2008 | data visualisation, open data, web 2.0
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 27 2008 | blogs, data curation, large scale data, open data
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 15 2008 | legal, open data, IPR
Jordan Hatcher's Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence launched at the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) at the LSE (Mar. 2008). The ODC PDDL is a document intended to allow you to freely share, modify, and use this work for any purpose and without any restrictions. This licence is intended for use on databases or their contents (”data”), either together or individually.
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 - Feb 08 2008 | open data, articles, data mining
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 23 2008 | research data, open data, science, blogs
DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 18 2008 | open data, Open AccessThe Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) sets out principles to define the 'open' in open knowledge. The term knowledge is used broadly and it includes all forms of data, content such as music, films or books as well any other type of information.
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