[open-bibliography] Using IsItOpenData to get information about licensing policies

Wed Mar 16 13:07:34 UTC 2011

On 8 March 2011 09:20, ianibbo at gmail.com <ianibbo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For me it satisfies the Open Definition. I believe that it does not qualify
>> for CKAN because you cannot "get all the data at once" but this is an
>> additional CKAN restriction, not an OKD one.

This is incorrect. The http://opendefinition.org/okd/ states:

<quote>
The work shall be available as a whole and at no more than a
reasonable reproduction cost, preferably downloading via the Internet
without charge. The work must also be available in a convenient and
modifiable form.
</quote>

Hence the 'bulk' ("as a whole") requirement is in the Open Definition.

> I've certainly added OAI (And other streaming protocol) based datasets
> to CKAN, wasn't aware of any restriction. I just used the base URL of
> the OAI server. Is this an official line? If so it needs to be
> challenged and changed (IMNSHO).

There's no restriction regarding what you register on CKAN - in
particular there is no requirement to only register Open Definition
compliant datasets. That said, obviously we do highlight (in a variety
of ways) those datasets that are open and I don't think we want
datasets that will always remain closed, and especially those datasets
that are clearly 'paid-access-only'.

Rufus

> cheers,
> Ian.
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