We’ve started work on an ultra simple guide to assist people who want to make their data open:
http://www.opendatacommons.org/guide/
We’ve been asked a lot recently for a simple HOWTO and this guide is one effort to address this.
This is a first draft and we’d really like to hear any feedback people have.
The Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 “Release Candidate” is now available at:
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
This updated version of the license incorporates a whole set of changes arising out of the earlier comments period and the main changes are summarized below.
As the naming suggests, we believe this text is now very close to a “production-ready” 1.0 license. To allow [...]
Biblios.net, “the world’s largest database of freely-licensed library records”, is now beta-testing:
http://blog.okfn.org/2008/12/02/biblios-worlds-largest-database-of-open-bibliographic-data-goes-beta/
…and they appear to be using the Public Domain Dedication and Licence — Thanks Biblios.net!
As we build up some infrastructure, we will start posting about other users as well (and I know that there are a few others already using it).
“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 [...]
I just finished listening to the IT Conversations podcast with Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg of Many Eyes. Many Eyes is kinda like Facebook meets Youtube but with data visualization thrown in. Users can upload data sets which can be manipulated and visualized by other users. What struck me is that in the whole [...]