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

Wed Apr 27 11:12:45 UTC 2011

To clarify: the 'Open Definition' at opendefinition.org is for both
content and data. It is not a license, but more like a licensing
standard (very much like the definitions of Free/Open Source Software
[1]).

In order for the data to be fully open you have to publishing it with
a license or legal tool which is compliant with the Open Definition.
For example, you could use a legal tool intended for data like one of
the Open Data Commons licenses, or CC0:

http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

You may also be interested in applying two of the other 'open' CC
licenses to the data - CC BY or CC BY-SA:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

While in the past (parts of) CC have *explicitly* dis-recommended CC
licenses for data [3] - there are signs that they are changing their
position on this [4].

Hope this helps!

All the best,

Jonathan

[1] See http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd and
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
[2] http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/
[3] http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/creative-commons-is-not-appropriate-for-data/
[4] https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26283

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Ricardo Niederberger Cabral
<ricardo at isnotworking.com> wrote:
> 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.
> [1] http://www.opendefinition.org/
> [2] http://www.opendefinition.org/okd
> Regards,
> Ricardo
>
>
> 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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>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://blog.okfn.org
>>
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>
>

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