Fwd: Work/Hack session on LODD / IsItOpenData

This work/hack session on data licensing for LODD, scheduled for 
Monday March 7th at 19:00 GMT (14:00 EST), may be of interest.

Let Egon (in cc) know if you're interested in joining.

-Jodi

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> Resent-From: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
> From: Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen@gmail.com>
> Date: 20 February 2011 18:06:27 GMT
> To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
> Subject: Work/Hack session on LODD / IsItOpenData
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> on February 16 there was an OpenScience Workgroup [0] meeting of the
> Open Knowledge Foundation, where we scheduled a work session for
> Monday March 7th at 19:00 GMT, for about an hour, to work on
> clarifying the data licensing of LODD data sets, such as those listed
> on CKAN. For some data sets the license is clear, others have
> non-commercial clauses (which is not considered "Open Data"), and
> others do not specify the terms, or are not open at all. For example,
> the below diagram a CAS node which is not open data at all:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/HCLSIG/LODD/Data
> 
> In fact, the unclear license issue was one of the referee comments on
> the LODD contribution to the thematic issue on RDF in chemistry
> (coordinated by Matthias).
> 
> Please let me know if interested in joining the meeting,
> 
> Egon
> 
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