Archive for March, 2008

PDDL new text available

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Public Domain Dedication and Licence v.1.0 

The new materials are up!  The first draft has been archived and links to the original text will be posted.  I’ve just updated the page that the PDDL was originally on. The Community Norms statement was not updated.

CHANGELOG – PDDL

Added various text in the preamble in order to clarify it [...]

PDL to go out of beta – 15 March

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

At the Open Knowledge Convention in London on Saturday, March 15th, I will make a short presentation on the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence and announce its release out of beta. By the end of the day on Monday I will have all the changes finished and up on OpenDataCommons.org. A [...]

Speaking at OII on Open Data Commons

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Implementing Open Data: The Open Data Commons project

Location: Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS. This event is open to the public. If you would like to attend please email your name and affiliation, if any, to: events@oii.ox.ac.uk

Perhaps surprisingly for some, data and databases are not a ‘rights free’ area where no [...]

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