Re: Open Data Rights Statements

Great stuff, Leigh.

After convertingyour Turtle file into RDF/XML(ORDS.owl, attached file), 
the ontology opens and behaves nicely in Protégé.

Since it would be valuable to have ODRS in Linked Open Vocabularies 
(http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/), I am copying this to Bernard.

David


On 02/07/2013 09:23, Leigh Dodds wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the UK Open Data Institute we've been working on some guidance and
> a new vocabulary to help support the publication of machine-readable
> rights statements for open data. The vocabulary builds on existing
> work in this area (e.g. Dublin Core and Creative Commons) but
> addresses a few issues that we felt were underspecified.
>
> The vocabulary is intended to work in a wide variety of contexts, from
> simple JSON documents and data packaging formats through to Linked
> Data and Web APIs.
>
> The work is now at a stage where we're keen to get wider feedback from
> the community.
>
> You can read a background on the work in this introductory blog post
> on the UK ODI blog:
>
> http://theodi.org/blog/machine-readable-rights-statements
>
> The draft schema can be found here:
>
> http://schema.theodi.org/odrs/
>
> And there are publisher and re-user guides to accompany it:
>
> https://github.com/theodi/open-data-licensing/blob/master/guides/publisher-guide.md
> https://github.com/theodi/open-data-licensing/blob/master/guides/reusers-guide.md
>
> We would love to hear your feedback on the work. If you do have issues
> or comments, then can I ask that you submit them as an issue to our
> github project:
>
> https://github.com/theodi/open-data-licensing/issues
>
> Thanks,
>
> L.
>
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>

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