Open Data Commons

FYI, Richard Poynder’s interview with John Wilbanks, VP of Science Commons, is available and discusses open data.

[Science Commons]Netsquared hosts data mashup challenge

If you’re interested in open data or open notebook science, listen up. Netsquared is putting its money where its mouth is and offering a $100,000 cash prize for the best data mashups for social change.

You can find out more on their site.

Creative Commons has announced a change in course for CCZero with reference to the approach taken byOpen Data Commons and the Public Domain Dedication and Licence.

Some things I’ve been reading that should be of interest. There is a great deal more that I’ll put up soon.

Read the history of open data in Richard Poydner’s “Peter Murray-Rust and the data-mining robots“. Indeed, without Peter Murray-Rust, we wouldn’t have the Open Data Commons project.

Speaking of Murray-Rust, you can listen to a [...]

“It won’t be long before open access is old hat, taken for granted by a new generation of tools and services that depend on unrestricted access to research literature and data. As those tools and services come along, they will be the hot story. But historians will note that they all depend on open access [...]

A comment via personal email and via the discuss list for the Open Data Commons set of legal tools. This is about the Public Domain Dedication & Licence:

Would it be possible to include an indemnification clause for misuse of data, for example when the data is passed on to a third person not bound by [...]