[open-government] Hong Kong data catalogue

Thu Mar 31 22:04:42 BST 2011

Looking at http://www.gov.hk/en/theme/psi/terms/ it seem like point 8
defines a quite opened access.
It doesn't say anything about reuse but defines lots of legal
restrictions which do not look like taking much sense for just access,
so I guess reuse is implicit.
But also it is restricted in time and these exceptions can be the
source of lots of juridic insecurities, so...
I'd say glass half full...

Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 22:55, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Many thanks for your reply and for the additional links Deniz!
>
> I meant 'open' as in 'open data', which is defined here:
> http://www.opendefinition.org/
>
> The potential ambiguity here is *exactly* why I've been speaking to
> folks at the White House and the Cabinet Office about potentially
> building a basic minimum set of principles here - like a mix between
> the Public Data Principles and the Open Government Directive. We're
> very interested in continuing to build awareness around this issue
> internationally - especially as new open government data initiatives
> start up around the world.
>
> Its *really* important that 'open data' is not the same as 'online
> data' - the crucial difference is that 'open data' is *explicitly*
> available for reuse without restriction, e.g. via a license, rights
> statement, terms of use or a legal waiver.
>
> Would be great to hear others' views on this!
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Deniz Susar <susar at un.org> wrote:
>> You can download the data in CSV. I guess this is sufficient for them to
>> label it as "open".
>>
>> The catalogues below (which may qualify as OGD) are also accessible online:
>>
>> ·        http://govinfo.nlc.gov.cn (National)
>>
>> ·        http://zwgk.dl.gov.cn/default.jse (Dalian, China)
>>
>> ·        http://www.gz.gov.cn/vfs/web/zwpd.htm  (Guangzhou, China)
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Guess people will probably have seen this:
>>>
>>> http://www.gov.hk/en/theme/psi/welcome/
>>>
>>> Anyone know anyone who was involved with this? Still trying to figure
>>> out how 'open' the data is...
>>>
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>>
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>> Best Regards,
>> Deniz
>>
>> ________________________________________
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