[CivicAccess-discuss] Key Paper - Toward Implementation of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems Data Sharing Principles.

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

All;

This is a *key paper* on *data sharing principles*.  It was written
primarily for the international exchange of Earth Observation System's data
(aka satellite and radar imagery).  These principles however can be applied
to a variety of contexts.  I have seen many principles floating around the
open data community, most, unfortunately, are a random wish list that are
not always grounded in broader data exchange communities and practices.

I think we need to take the sciences into consideration when developing data
sharing principles and open data strategies, since, in most cases, they have
the most experience in data sharing, particularly since data sharing in the
sciences has been practiced for a couple of hundred years, of course
recently accelerated due to the computer and the Internet.

*Toward Implementation of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems
Data Sharing Principles*, by Paul F. Uhlir, Robert S. Chen, Joanne Irene
Gabrynowicz & Katleen Janssen
http://www.spacelaw.olemiss.edu/JSL/articles/35JSL201.pdf

Volume 35, number 1 of the Journal of Space Law and Volume 9 of the CODATA
Data Science Journal are simultaneously publishing “Toward Implementation of
the
Global Earth Observation System of Systems Data Sharing Principles.” The
paper is
a collaborative, interdisciplinary product of a number of authors who
participated in
the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Task DA-06-01 on furthering the
practical
application of the agreed GEOSS data sharing principles. To assure wide
distribution
and use of the paper, the paper has been published using a Creative Commons
license
that allows reuse and redissemination of all or part of the paper, as long
as proper
attribution is given.

Another key document that can be a reference for open data endeavours and
initiatives is the GeoConnections data dissemination guide to best
practices.  The geomatics sector has also been on the forefront of data
sharing.  This sharing was spearheaded primarily by transnational
environmental management and monitoring endeavours.  Again, these practices
can be applied to open data initiatives.

*Version 2 of The Dissemination of Government Geographic Data in Canada -
Guide to Best Practices *
http://www.geoconnections.org/publications/Best_practices_guide/Guide_to_Best_Practices_Summer_2008_Final_EN.pdf

The GeoConnections program (“GeoConnections”) is a national federally-funded
program designed to link location-based information using the power of the
Internet. To develop, support and deliver the Canadian Geospatial Data
Infrastructure, GeoConnections relies strongly on a broad network of
partners who are developing the capabilities to disseminate geographic data
on-line and to access such data from these partners. An integrated data
licensing framework for geographic data is one of the cornerstones for
building these capabilities.



In the Winter of 2005, GeoConnections *re*leased version 1 of *The
Dissemination of Government Geographic Data in Canada : Guide to Best
Practices (“Guide to Best Practices”). *The culmination of months of effort
and consultation led by the Data Licensing Guide Working Group (the “DLGWG”),
established under the auspices of the GeoConnections Policy Advisory Node,
[1]<http://www.geoconnections.org/publications/Best_practices_guide/Executive_Summary_EN_V2_2008.htm#_ftn1>Version
1 of the
*Guide to Best Practices* set out an integrated framework for what was then
recommended as constituting the three types of geographic data dissemination
and licensing models most commonly used in Canada, to be used for the
purposes of licensing government geographic data.



Continuous dialogue with government data licensing practitioners, users and
industry highlighted the prevalency of new distribution models for the
dissemination of geographic data, made possible through the rapid
development and technological advances in the field of  web-based services,
distributed computing and other user applications. The benefits of these new
technological advances on the dissemination of government geographic data,
coupled with changes in government data dissemination policy mandated an
examination of the currency, relevancy and comprehensiveness of the
integrated framework for the licensing of government geographic data as
outlined in the first version of the *Guide to Best Practices*.

Cheers
Tracey
-- 
Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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