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

[Martin Alvarez-Espinar]

Hello Jonathan,

Thanks for your proposal. Actually, it was a leftover foot of the page 
(even, it was in Spanish). Our intention is to open and expose all the 
data of our triplestore. These data are under a CC-BY license. We have 
changed the CC logo, and added the proper metadata in the repository 
definition.

Of course, we should practice what we preach. Anyone must be able to 
reuse the information.

Best regards,

Martin

On 04/11/2011 08:34 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Fantastic to see Martin! Would you guys consider publishing the data you
> have as open data (as in opendefinition.org
> <http://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
> <mailto: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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