- From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@okfn.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:21:09 +0000
- To: Laurence Millar <laurence.millar@gvg.net.nz>
- Cc: eGovIG IG <public-egov-ig@w3.org>, "Emmanouil Batsis (Manos)" <manos@abiss.gr>, Todd Vincent <todd.vincent@xmllegal.org>, Niklas Lindström <lindstream@gmail.com>, "prof. dr. Tom M. van Engers" <vanengers@uva.nl>, peter.krantz@gmail.com, david osimo <david.osimo@gmail.com>, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock@okfn.org>
Indeed we've been in conversation with the people behind the Open Government Data Principles about how we can incorporate the Open Knowledge Definition (which I think pre-dated the Government Data Principles by a couple of years) into their definition. I'm not sure how actively maintained the Open Government Principles are though... Also we've had several discussions about point 8. of the OGD principles which says that open government data must be 'license free'. We are not sure about this. For example many governments use licenses (such as the UK's Click Use PSI license - which is Open Knowledge Definition compliant) which mean that anyone can use the data with almost no restriction. Point 8. might be US Federal government bias - and implies that all rights in data must be waived, rather than using rights to enforce basic measures such as attribution and integrity as is the case in the UK and many other European countries. We'd love to create something like opendefinition.org/government which would basically be the OKD plus some additional recommendations/requirements such as those in the OGD principles. Best wishes, Jonathan On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Laurence Millar <laurence.millar@gvg.net.nz> wrote: > In NZ, we have been using this for most of 2009: > > http://wiki.opengovdata.org/index.php?title=OpenDataPrinciples > > (HT Colin Jackson, Vikram Kumar) > > In the spirit of open, it would be sensible to build on the work that has > already been done. > > > -- > Laurence Millar Independent Advisor > > +64 21 441 461 > > http://gvg.net.nz/ > > Jonathan Gray wrote: > > The Open Knowledge Definition aims to give a definition of the 'open' > in 'open data': > > http://opendefinition.org/ > > Functionally, it is a bit like the definitions for Free/Open Source > software - providing criteria for determining which licenses, legal > tools and terms and conditions make the material they are applied to > 'open'. It covers everything from the UK Click Use PSI License to some > (but not all) of the Creative Commons licenses. > > Is this of interest? > > > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org
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