[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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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