1. Open Data and
Creative
Commons
in South Australia

2. An initiative of the
City of Salisbury
and University of
South Australia
An initiative of the
City of Salisbury
and University of
South Australia
Current status – future directions
OPEN DATA AND
CREATIVE COMMONS

3. Creative Commons
CC = alternative copyright licensing
Attribution:
BY
Share Alike:
SA
Non commercial:
NC
No
Derivatives:
ND

4. Why Creative Commons?
 Cost savings through the reuse of CC licensed
materials
 Increased transparency
 Enhanced reputation through reuse of our
Copyrighted materials
 Increased awareness of the possible reuse of
our materials

5. Open Data
“Open data is the idea that certain data should
be freely available to everyone to use and
republish as they wish, without restrictions
from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of
control.” 1

6. Why Open Data?
 Increased transparency
 Increased trust
 Greater flexibility for the users of our data and
materials (they don’t need to ask)
 More likely that 3rd party users will do
innovative things

7. Who is doing it?
State and
Federal
Government
 Federal Government Gov2.0
 ABS
 BOM
 SA State Government
 DPTI
 Open Data Statement
 State Library

8. Current Uses at Salisbury
Water Data

10. Re-use
Images,
videos,
music and
words
reused.

11. Digital Enterprise Program
All content
provided by
contractors
must be
licensed
CC BY

12. SA Local Government
SA Local
Government
 City of Salisbury
 Adelaide City Council
 City of Burnside
 Port Adelaide Enfield Council
 LGA

13. Local Data opportunities

14. Thoughts and Action Points
 Where does policy feature in the conversation
 Supply data sets for use in
Unleashed/LocalData.net.au
 Consider use of CC licensing as default
 Feature Open Data and Creative Commons in
the Digital Strategy

15. Links and references
 Creative Commons Australia
 Open Technology Foundation
 Unleashed
 Polaris Centre
1. Auer, S. R.; Bizer, C.; Kobilarov, G.; Lehmann, J.; Cyganiak, R.; Ives, Z. (2007). "DBpedia: A
Nucleus for a Web of Open Data". The Semantic Web. Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 4825. p. 722. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_52.ISBN 978-3-540-76297-3.

16. Ebusiness Strategic Advisor, City of Salisbury
rmoult@salisbury.sa.gov.au
@rhysatwork
Rhys Moult