[open-heritage] Europeana factsheet on Open Linked Data

Thu Nov 25 13:30:17 UTC 2010

Anyone interested in an IRC chat about this? I think I'd like to
explore some more :)

Maybe we could set up a doodle to see when people might be able to do
a half hour session? I think I need to have some of these arguments
explained a bit better to me, as I don't quite get them at the moment
(Especially the green light thing, as there already some great CH
aggregation projects that exist without the green light of an explicit
license)

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On 25 November 2010 13:13, Maarten Zeinstra <mz at kl.nl> wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2010, at 14:05 , Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:53 AM, ianibbo at gmail.com <ianibbo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> but outsude "What extra do I get by adding a license property and
>
> setting it to an open license" is a question I don't feel I've
>
> answered really well for myself yet (In this domain).
>
> The value of an open license is that it give people a green light for
> doing things. Without it you are much less likely to get external
> innovation happening around your stuff (whether this is new mobile/web
> services, or value/exposure from projects like Wikipedia, Flickr, Open
> Street Map, ...). Also if there is interest in getting input from
> developer communities, etc, then I would say that using an open
> license is a very important first step.
>
> Jonathan is right, especially in the case of LOD, if you want to mash up
> linked data between several Silo's of data (Like Europeana, DBpedia or FOAF)
> on a larger scale than just between institutions you need to have compatible
> license schemes, else the resulting dataset will either be a license mess or
> it will probably break one of the terms of use of these data sets.
>
> Maarten Zeinstra
>
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