[okfn-discuss] Open Service Definition (revisited)

Fri Aug 3 15:21:01 UTC 2007

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:28:25PM +0100, Francis Irving wrote:
> Rufus - perhaps when Luis has got a bit further and clarified the
> language and options, we should have a meeting in Cambridge to work
> out what, if anything, OKFN needs to do?

I'm following this thread with interest, and would be very interested
in meeting up to talk about it either in Cambridge or London.

Thanks Rufus, Francis, Luis for keeping the thread going. My feeling is
(as with many OK projects) that practice will have to lead in the end -
and the definition that works will be one that makes the services that
use it more operationally functional and profitable. 

I know I'm not helping with the line-drawing issues, but services like
http://freebase.com are interesting in the sense that they're doing
exactly what an OSD would set out to prevent: relegating freely licensed
content to an abstract mess of stuff that only makes sense if you can
get to the service, their metadata, and their APIs etc.

In some ways - these counter examples might be very useful for
informing the terms of the OSD.

Cheers,

Saul.
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