[open-government] Ten Open Data Guidelines launched in Tbilisi

Tue Feb 1 15:11:58 GMT 2011

Amazing. If you've got supporting material to unpack this, you could
put "legally open", as a functional (i.e. 'legal mechanism agnostic'),
user-centric way of summarising this in a couple of words. And we've
also developed opendefinition.org to unpack this if more clarification
is needed. You could also look at wording in the US Open Government
Directive and in the UK Public Data Principles for inspiration.

Good luck!

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Derek Dohler <derek at transparency.ge> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> That's an excellent point, and I will work on reformulating point 7 to make
> that clear--let me get back to you in a few days with some proposed changes.
> I don't have any quick answers about the copyright status of government
> information in other countries, but that's an area that I'm interested in
> know more about as well. I know that in Georgia, government information may
> be freely used, but that's a distinct issue, as you rightly point out, from
> whether it is copyrighted. I'll see if I can do some digging and find out.
>
> Best,
>
> Derek
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Fantastic. I have one small comment related to point 7., which says
>> data should be 'license free'. I would focus this point on making sure
>> that users are free to use data in any way they please, rather than on
>> the legal mechanism used to achieve this. E.g. at the moment it might
>> not be clear whether or not things like Creative Commons CC0 or the
>> PDDL, would be permissible or not. Also its not clear to me that, a
>> priori, one wants to *always* deal with rights in government
>> information via legal reform (copyright exemptions, PSI legislation
>> etc) rather than at an administrative level (e.g. via licensing
>> policies and practices). By excluding licenses as a legitimate means
>> of opening up government information, you exclude 'bottom up'
>> initiatives from public bodies to open material up using licenses or
>> other legal tools (e.g. the UK's Open Government License). Some
>> clarification here would be great!
>>
>> In general I'd be really interested to hear of other legal systems
>> which have copyright exemptions in public information, like §105 in
>> the US Copyright Act [1], to get a sense of how widespread this is
>> outside the US. I know that there are *some* clauses in other
>> copyright legislation, but don't know in how many countries.
>>
>> Christina, Katleen: do you know anything about this? Or do you know
>> anyone who would know? Or any papers/research on this topic?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> [1] http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
>>
>> 2011/2/1 Victoria Anderica <victoria at access-info.org>:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > Access Info Europe welcome the publication this week of the Ten Open
>> > Data
>> > Guidelines drafted by TI Georgia, in consultation with Access Info
>> > Europe.
>> >
>> > These guidelines are designed as a guide to help agency heads, IT
>> > managers,
>> > and web developers create open data websites. They call for data to be:
>> >
>> > 1. Complete
>> > 2. Primary
>> > 3. Timely
>> > 4. Accessible
>> > 5. Machine-readable
>> > 6. Non-proprietary
>> > 7. License-free
>> > 8. Reviewable
>> > 9. Discoverable
>> > 10. Permanent
>> >
>> > The guidelines provide details of how these are to be achieved. They
>> > provide
>> > a useful structure which Access Info recommends as a model for the
>> > elaboration of similar principles in other countries and at an
>> > international
>> > level.
>> >
>> > Please do not hesitate to contact either Dereck Dohler, copied, or
>> > myself
>> > for more information.
>> >
>> > All the best,
>> >
>> > Victoria
>> >
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