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Open Data Commonsa license for open data

Paul Miller, Rob Styles, Tom Heath{paul.miller rob.styles tom.heath}@talis.com


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Conference

Corpus

DBpedia RDF Book Mashup

DBLPBerlin

Revyu

Project Guten-berg

FOAFprofiles

Geo-names

Music-brainz

Magna-tuneJamendo

World

Fact-

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DBLPHannover

SIOCprofiles

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BBCLater +TOTP

Doap-space

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Gov-Track

US Census Data

W3CWordNet

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Onto-world

BBC

John

Peel

Flickrexporter

Audio-Scrobbler QDOS

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RKB Explorer

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Why the disconnect?


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But first...


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‘Open’ is not just religion


In terms of data, what do we do? What if all our software is open, and all our protocols and APIs are open, what does it matter as the companies still own us if they have the data

Jon Mountjoy, paraphrasing Tim O’Reilly at EuroOSCON 2006http://tinyurl.com/36zag3

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‘Open’ is good for economy


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This is ground-breaking work for the OFT, looking at hidden markets in the economy. These monopoly public sector bodies cost the UK economy £500 million in lost opportunities. Our recommendations will help to make this valuable public asset more easily available for commercial uses which will benefit the economy and consumers.

John Fingleton, Chief Executive, UK Governmentʼs Office of Fair Trading

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Publicly available data was significantly associated with a 69% increase in citations, independently of journal impact factor, date of publication, and author country of origin

Piwowar et al, 2007. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000308

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So why isn’t there more?Legal certainties

Legal confusion...


©does not apply


saying nothing is not enough


US & Chinese flags public domain licensed in Wikipedia. EU flag GFD licensed in Wikipedia.

US v EU

plus others, like China...


We need to be explicit

Open Source - community ownership of endeavour...

Open Content


impact on copyright ?Remove black and whiteContinuum of rights


Open Data Commonsopendatacommons.org


• waive rights - gift to public domain– WHY?

• layer protections back on top using the license

• community norms important

• Open Data Commons now hosted by OKF...


What does this mean?

more dataunambiguous useincreased trusta willingness to LINK


Conclusion


• look at the license

• www.opendatacommons.org/

• If it works, use it.

• If it doesn’t work, use something else


...but use something!

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