[Okfn-ca] Fwd: [CivicAccess-discuss] FW: Announcement - PM announces new measures to make Government data more accessible to Canadians

Diane Mercier diane.mercier at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 20:38:28 UTC 2013


Discussion autour de la nouvelle licence ouverte (2.0) du gouvernement 
canadien.


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Sujet: 	Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] FW: Announcement - PM announces new 
measures to make Government data more accessible to Canadians
Date : 	Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:54:37 -0400
De : 	James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca>
Répondre à : 	civicaccess discuss <civicaccess-discuss at civicaccess.ca>
Pour : 	civicaccess discuss <civicaccess-discuss at civicaccess.ca>
Copie à : 	gerry at tychon.ca



The earlier review is: 
http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=113:canadas-new-draft-open-government-licence&Itemid=83 See 
also: 
http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=124:federal-court-of-appeal-reminds-government-there-is-no-copyright-in-data 



On 2013-06-18, at 1:40 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:

> links to some docs here -
>
> http://datalibre.ca/2013/06/18/g8-open-data-charter-canada-signs-on/
> link to Scassa's review - 
> http://www.teresascassa.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=131:canada%E2%80%99s-open-government-licence-v20-is-released&Itemid=81
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Gerry Tychon <gerry at tychon.ca 
> <mailto:gerry at tychon.ca>> wrote:
>
>     Tracey ...
>
>     Did you mean to include a link?
>
>     ... ggt
>
>
>
>     On 18/06/2013 10:28 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
>>     Teresa Scassa did an excellent review here of the new licence!
>>     Seems like they got it right.
>>
>>     On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Michael Mulley
>>     <michael at michaelmulley.com <mailto:michael at michaelmulley.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         The new things I've noticed today:
>>
>>         - Relaunched data.gc.ca <http://data.gc.ca/>. Looks nicer,
>>         based on CKAN so now has an API.
>>
>>         - data.gc.ca <http://data.gc.ca/> now has a government-wide
>>         search engine for ATI request summaries. The search engine is
>>         new, right? It's certainly a useful tool.
>>
>>         - New license version [1]. It struck me as rather good:
>>         clear, straightforward, nothing I objected to.
>>
>>         - Signing the G8 Open Data Charter [2]. The charter is
>>         notably well-written (I get a feeling the UK is responsible?)
>>         and says many right things and no wrong ones, though -- as a
>>         document signed by eight countries -- it's not tremendously
>>         demanding or specific. The most interesting bit to me was the
>>         list of high value datasets, in 6.2. It's a good summary of
>>         openable datasets, and includes things like "company/business
>>         register", "transaction spend data", "call for tender" --
>>         datasets I think many of us would be quite interested in
>>         having here. The charter calls for countries to release
>>         action plans in October describing how they'll release data
>>         in each of the categories in the list.
>>
>>
>>         On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Glen Newton
>>         <glen.newton at gmail.com <mailto:glen.newton at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             The devil is in the details.
>>              Or the high level policies.
>>             Damn, I can never remember which it is....
>>
>>             -glen
>>
>>             On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:28 AM, michael gurstein
>>             <gurstein at gmail.com <mailto:gurstein at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>             > Nowif he would only do something to make information
>>             more accessible that
>>             > would be truly noteworthy.
>>             >
>>             >
>>             >
>>             > M
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>>             >
>>             >
>>             >
>>             > From: civicaccess-discuss-bounces at civicaccess.ca
>>             <mailto:civicaccess-discuss-bounces at civicaccess.ca>
>>             > [mailto:civicaccess-discuss-bounces at civicaccess.ca
>>             <mailto:civicaccess-discuss-bounces at civicaccess.ca>] On
>>             Behalf Of Tracey P.
>>             > Lauriault
>>             > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 10:07 AM
>>             > To: civicaccess discuss
>>             > Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] Announcement - PM
>>             announces new measures to
>>             > make Government data more accessible to Canadians
>>             >
>>             >
>>             >
>>             >
>>             http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&pageId=26&id=5544
>>             >
>>             >
>>             >
>>             > --
>>             >
>>             > Tracey P. Lauriault
>>             >
>>             > Post Doctoral Fellow
>>             >
>>             > Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
>>             >
>>             >
>>             https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
>>             >
>>             > http://datalibre.ca/
>>             > 613-234-2805 <tel:613-234-2805>
>>             >
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>>     -- 
>>     Tracey P. Lauriault
>>     Post Doctoral Fellow
>>     Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
>>     https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
>>     http://datalibre.ca/
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