- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 23:56:58 -0400
- To: William Waites <ww-keyword-okfn.193365@styx.org>
- Cc: Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>, Anja Jentzsch <anja@anjeve.de>, public-lod@w3.org, Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@okfn.org>, CKAN discuss <ckan-discuss@lists.okfn.org>
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:42 PM, William Waites <william.waites@okfn.org> wrote: > On 10-09-05 16:00, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> >> As I said, the first line on the CKAN home page says: "CKAN is a >> registry of open data and content packages.". Therefore I think there >> is a reasonable expectation that the packages registered there are >> open. > > Actually, it is my understanding that CKAN is an > *open registry* and includes packages that are > partially open, unclearly licensed or even that > someone thinks should be open but at present are > not. > > I agree that the text is misleading and should > probably be fixed. I'm crossposting to ckan-discuss, > and if nobody objects I'll change it to "CKAN is > an open registry of data and content packages" That would certainly be clearer. > It seems to me the case that packages in the curated > LOD group should all be themselves open, by > definition. That would be my impression as well. Though the presence of bio2rdf-cas raises questions. Best, Alan > > Cheers, > -w > -- > William Waites <william.waites@okfn.org> > Mob: +44 789 798 9965 Open Knowledge Foundation > Fax: +44 131 464 4948 Edinburgh, UK > > RDF Indexing, Clustering and Inferencing in Python > http://ordf.org/ >
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