[CivicAccess-discuss] Fwd: DataBC (Beta) is now live.

[Glen Newton]

I also agree.

As someone who has bemoaned[1] the state of the non-Open licenses
offered by Canadian cities (Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Edmonton) in
this forum and others, I am pleasantly thrilled with this true Open
license, and hope other Canadian jurisdictions will follow this
excellent lead.

It's good to get some good Open news!  :-)

-Glen Newton

[1]http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/07/its-not-open-data-so-stop-calling-it.html

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Michael Mulley
<michael at michaelmulley.com> wrote:
> Agreed on all counts, but let's be clear: the BC license is good. It's
> a truism that every new license initially contributes to
> balkanization, but this is in several ways the best license I've seen
> so far on Canadian data (barring the PDDL, which doesn't seem likely
> to catch on widely here). It's heavily based on the successful UK
> national license.
>
> I definitely agree that open data citizens need to keep licensing in
> mind. And, unless there are problems with the BC license I haven't
> noticed, we now have an easy message to give Canadian data providers
> about licensing: "BC is the leader. Follow them."
>
> (Yes, we've already been able to say "Follow US/Australia/NZ." But a
> Canadian example is much more reassuring.)
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It is good to have home grown, even better to build on international
>> examples to foster greater legal and policy interoperability.
>> Canadian  'open data' licencing is a balkanized system. What is legal in one
>> town or province/territory conflicts with another or other levels of
>> government and also internationaly.  Even apps developers are closing their
>> apps and selling them with open data inside them, hardly in keeping with the
>> ideas of openness - $ could be made with open source apps using open data -
>> apps licencing and open data licencing.
>> It would be really great if we could encourage cities, provinces,
>> territories, national departments and agencies to work more closely with
>> CIPPIC and with each other to aim towards some sort of unity in licensing
>> and understandings of what openness really is.  The UK, New Zealand and
>> Australia are examples of this type of CC licensing. They are Westminster
>> systems like Canada's and we could embrace something like this if only we
>> worked together more and worked with the public legal agencies that can best
>> lead us toward better licensing.  Open data citizens, I would argue, need to
>> foreground licencing along with their hackfest ideals & apps development
>> zeal.
>> I know this is a dry read, and that I have mentioned it on numerous
>> occasions, but worth reading nonetheless
>> - http://www.cippic.ca/open-licensing/.
>> Cheers
>> t
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Michael Mulley <michael at michaelmulley.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> In particular, I read the license the data is available under and
>>> started grinning. It's based on the UK opengov license, but it's a
>>> custom BC version, which in this case may be good: a homegrown
>>> Canadian example, created by a provincial government. David Eaves
>>> wrote more this morning:
>>>
>>> http://eaves.ca/2011/07/19/province-of-bc-launches-open-data-catalog-what-works/
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Pamela MacDonald <pamelamacd at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:51 PM
>>> Subject: [OpenDataBC] DataBC (Beta) is now live.
>>> To: OpenDataBC <opendatabc at googlegroups.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.data.gov.bc.ca/dbc/index.page?
>>>
>>> The Province has launched their new site and included the first
>>> release of datasets in the link above.
>>>
>>> Pamela
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Tracey P. Lauriault
>> 613-234-2805
>> http://traceyplauriault.ca/
>>
>>
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