Presentation on open data licensing and interoperability and standards in relation to open government data for the Share PSI workshop at the European Union in May 2011. http://share-psi.eu/
Driving Behavioral Change for Information Management through Data-Driven Gree...
Open Data Licensing Share PSI Workshop
1. Share PSI Workshop
Open Data Licensing and PSI
Brussels, 11 May 2011
Jordan S. Hatcher, JD, LLM
Board of Directors, Open Knowledge Foundation
Co-founder, Open Data Commons
www.jordanhatcher.com
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7. OKF work
• Standards - Open Definition; Open Government Data
Principles; Open Data Commons
• Infrastructure & Tools – CKAN; kforge; datapkg,
publicdata.eu
• Open Knowledge Production – PSI, Public Domain
Works, WDMMG,
• Events, Workshops, and Working Groups – OKcon;
open data workshops; EU Open Data WG; Open
Government Data WG
• Community Support – very active
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17. 1. Public Domain Dedications
• CC0; PDDL or US gov
open 2. Attribution licenses
definition • CC-BY; ODC-Attribution; or UK -
compliant OGL
3. Copyleft / Share alike
licenses
• ODbL or CC-BY-SA
www.opendefinition.org
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18. 1. Public Domain Dedications
PSI
• CC0; PDDL or US gov
open 2. Attribution licenses
definition • CC-BY; ODC-Attribution; or UK -
compliant OGL
3. Copyleft / Share alike
licenses
• ODbL or CC-BY-SA
www.opendefinition.org
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28. Step 1. Defining the boundaries of the
licenses
Step 2. Established a preferred license
type
Step 3. Make it easy for both licensors
and licensees
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29. Next Step: International common principles for
open government data licensing
(suggest opendefinition, plus PD or BY)
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30. Thanks!
www.okfn.org/
www.publicdata.eu
www.opengovernmentdata.org/
Jordan S. Hatcher, JD, LLM
Email: jordan DOT hatcher ]at[ okfn DOT org
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31. The Elect. Not the elected.
CC-BY-SA by Steve Punter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spunter/2907555506/
Farmhouse with Silos HDR by ajagendorf25
Available here under a CC-BY license
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajagendorf25/3033960008/
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GIMP if someone asks.
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32. Thanks!
www.okfn.org/
Jordan S. Hatcher, JD, LLM
Email: jordan DOT hatcher ]at[ okfn DOT org
Avaliable on slideshare at: http://www.slideshare.net/jordanhatcher
www.jordanhatcher.com
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/scotland/
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33. Open
Data
Diffusion of Innovations / Technology Adoption Curve
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