[open-government] Repository of Open Gov't Data Initiatives/Catalogs. Now Collaborative

Tue Apr 12 13:37:18 UTC 2011

Fantastic! :-)

Fancy doing a guest blog about this on blog.okfn.org?

J.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Martin Alvarez-Espinar
<martin.alvarez at fundacionctic.org> wrote:
> Hello Jonathan,
>
> Thanks for your proposal. Actually, it was a leftover foot of the page
> (even, it was in Spanish). Our intention is to open and expose all the data
> of our triplestore. These data are under a CC-BY license. We have changed
> the CC logo, and added the proper metadata in the repository definition.
>
> Of course, we should practice what we preach. Anyone must be able to reuse
> the information.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin
>
> On 04/11/2011 08:34 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>> Fantastic to see Martin! Would you guys consider publishing the data you
>> have as open data (as in opendefinition.org
>> <http://opendefinition.org>)? At the moment it seems to be under a
>> BY-NC-SA license - which means that it can't be freely remixed with e.g.
>> material from Freebase, from DBpedia or other open, structured data
>> sources. See e.g.
>>
>> http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/
>> http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/
>> http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/
>>
>> This would also allow people who were contributing to the sources to
>> reuse the data that they are contributing to.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Martin Alvarez-Espinar
>> <martin.alvarez at fundacionctic.org
>> <mailto:martin.alvarez at fundacionctic.org>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hello,
>>
>>    We are pleased to announce the new features of our Repository of
>>    Open Government Data Catalogs [1]. Until now, only the Open Data
>>    initiatives led by either governments or public agencies have been
>>    published. Now, any public sector information catalog (managed by
>>    citizen movements, transparency commissions, NGOs, and other
>>    institutions) is welcomed. The only requirement is that those
>>    catalogs must contain public sector information.
>>
>>    The second main feature is the collaborative aspect of the catalog.
>>    Anyone may contribute submitting new catalogs using a simple form
>>    [2]. All the changes will be moderated to avoid spam or
>>    inaccuracies. After the submission an the approval, the
>>    meta-information of the initiative will be available through a
>>    SPARQL endpoint [3].
>>
>>    Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>>
>>    Best regards,
>>
>>    Martin
>>
>>    [1] http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/
>>    [2] http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/manage/new
>>    [3] http://data.fundacionctic.org/sparql
>>
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