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

Tue Feb 1 15:09:05 UTC 2011

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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Derek Dohler
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Transparency International - Georgia
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