[okfn-discuss] Environmental data sharing agreements

[Jonathan Gray]

Recently stumbled across this PDF of various scanned
requests/agreements about sharing environmental data, which I thought
might be interesting (and amusing) to some people here:

  http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/availability/agreements.pdf

Highlights the transaction costs involved in sharing data on a case by
case basis!

Would be great to go through datasets in climate data group to
establish whether creators would consider using an open license!

  http://ckan.net/group/climatedata

This could be a useful test of our alpha 'Is It Open' service:

  http://isitopen.ckan.net/

Something to think about in the new year...

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org