[open-government] Open Data Directory - search engine for open datasets

Wed Apr 27 00:38:02 UTC 2011

Ricardo,

By adding a restriction on commercial works in your licence, your service's
metadata conflicts with clauses 2 and 8 of the Open Knowledge Definition.

Tim McNamara  |  @timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks>  |
timmcnamara.co.nz

2011/4/27 Ricardo Cabral <ricardo at mflask.com>

> I thought they were compatible, but I can change. The Open Data button
> links to [1] where there is no exact "Open Data" definition. I understand
> that "Open Data" is the same as "Open Knowledge Definition", right?
>
>
> What should be the exact wording?
>
>
> *All data licensed under the **Open Knowledge Definition*<http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/>
> *.*
>
>
> [1] http://www.opendefinition.org/
>
> [2] http://www.opendefinition.org/okd
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ricardo <http://about.me/rncabral>
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> This is great Ricardo!
>>
>> However, I note that while you are displaying an 'open data' button in
>> the footer, the API page says that the metadata is available under an
>> CC BY-SA-NC license [1], which means it is not fully open [2].
>>
>> Would you consider switching to an open license?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> [1] http://www.mflask.com/open-data-directory-api
>> [2] http://www.opendefinition.org/
>>
>> 2011/4/26 Ricardo Cabral <ricardo at mflask.com>:
>> > In case anyone might find interesting, I've been working for the
>> past few
>> > weeks at http://open.mflask.com/ which is a search engine for open data
>> sets
>> > published by governments, private companies and other organizations. I
>> > didn't know about http://opendatasearch.org/ when I started working on
>> it
>> > but maybe we could join forces somehow. Right now Open Data Directory
>> > indexes over 37k datasets.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Ricardo
>> >
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>>
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>>
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