[open-government] Repository of Open Gov't Data Initiatives/Catalogs. Now Collaborative

Mon Apr 11 18:34:01 UTC 2011

Fantastic to see Martin! Would you guys consider publishing the data you
have as open data (as in opendefinition.org)? At the moment it seems to be
under a BY-NC-SA license - which means that it can't be freely remixed with
e.g. material from Freebase, from DBpedia or other open, structured data
sources. See e.g.

http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/
http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/

This would also allow people who were contributing to the sources to reuse
the data that they are contributing to.

What do you think?

All the best,

Jonathan

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Martin Alvarez-Espinar <
martin.alvarez at fundacionctic.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are pleased to announce the new features of our Repository of Open
> Government Data Catalogs [1]. Until now, only the Open Data initiatives led
> by either governments or public agencies have been published. Now, any
> public sector information catalog (managed by citizen movements,
> transparency commissions, NGOs, and other institutions) is welcomed. The
> only requirement is that those catalogs must contain public sector
> information.
>
> The second main feature is the collaborative aspect of the catalog. Anyone
> may contribute submitting new catalogs using a simple form [2]. All the
> changes will be moderated to avoid spam or inaccuracies. After the
> submission an the approval, the meta-information of the initiative will be
> available through a SPARQL endpoint [3].
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin
>
> [1] http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/
> [2] http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/manage/new
> [3] http://data.fundacionctic.org/sparql
>
> --
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>
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