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EUTransparency, who created FarmSubsidy and organised the European Open Data Summit have launched a new site with data on payments made under the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy. From the press release:

Today sees the launch of fishsubsidy.org, a new transparency website from the farmsubsidy.org stable. It presents data on 97,260 payments totalling 8.5 billion euro from 1994 to 2006 under the European Union’s common fisheries policy.

They had to do significant work to clean up and harmonise the data:

The data was provided by the European Commission and since the first disclosure in 2007, we have received a further three versions of the data, each time a little bit cleaner and with fewer mistakes. It has been a long process to obtain and verify the data and there are still errors and anomalies (for example misspellings, errors in location and date information and some completely blank fields). The data also fails to identify the owners of the vessels receiving subsidy or the companies and organisations who receive non-vessel fisheries subsidies. It is by no means a perfect data set but we think now is the right time to publish it on fishsubsidy.org.

Also, they express concern over the way in which the data is currently collected and published - which makes it difficult to get an overview of where money disbursed under the European Union’s common fisheries policy is going:

We intend to update the database with new data for subsequent years but it is a major cause for concern that from 2007 onwards, the data on fisheries subsidies is to be made available in a highly fragmented way – each member state having responsibility for the disclosure of its own data. This is an unwelcome departure from the previous arrangements where the Commission played a co-ordinating role and compiled data from all member states to release to us. The fragmented future system of discloser will make it much more difficult to locate, extract and compile the data and as a consequence, much harder to achieve a genuinely pan-EU overview of what is going on.

We’ve created a CKAN package at:

• http://ckan.net/package/read/fishsubsidy

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2009/7/2 Joseph Seddon <joseph.seddon< at >wikimedia.org.uk>:

I assume you mean the sentence in 6.2. I would note that 6.2 begins by
saying the listing there is non-exhaustive ("includes the ...").

I would also emphasizethat this license is definitely *intended* to
permit reuse -- for example national statistics use it and most of the
uses of those statistics is going to be reuse. That said, as I stated,
and as emphasized by Andy section 9.6 could be an issue. The exact
implications of this section are slightly unclear, though I presume
them to be about trying to stop people using material to pretend to
have endorsement from the government. As such they might fall within
the ambit of the "integrity" sections of the CC license section 4a:

<quote>
If You create a Collection, upon notice from any Licensor You must, to
the extent practicable, remove from the Collection any credit as
required by Section 4(c), as requested. If You create an Adaptation,
upon notice from any Licensor You must, to the extent practicabl

This looks brilliant!

Just created a package on CKAN:

  http://ckan.net/package/read/wisconsin-view

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That's a big issue; CC (like all licenses meeting the OSI/FSF tests)
grant the right to redistribute subject only to very specific
restrictions (SA, NC, etc.) PSI in contrast, at least from a brief
reading, seems to grant redistribution only in very specific
circumstances, and later-generation parties do not seem to be
authorized to redistribute at all. Particularly 6.3 jumps out at me
("This will normally allow users and subscribers to download the
Material to screen and printer for their own use. It does not
otherwise allow you to authorise the reproduction of the Material".)

Really, I'd question whether PSI belongs on opendefinition.org;
specifically I don't see how it doesn't violate the second plank of
the definition.

But this is just from a very cursory review of the PSI.

(On checking my inbox again: Andy's comment about PSI s.9.4 is, I
believe, correct- this is not just an attribution/notice of
modification requirement like in a variety of open source
requirements, on the plain face of it it is a 

My understanding of the PSI licence is that it is much more 
restrictive than CC-BY-SA. In particular, it requires copies to be 
verbatim and does not license some commercial uses. I suspect it would 
be very difficult to roll over PSI licensed works into CC-BY-SA 
licences without major concessions by the OPSI.

It would be less of a challenge to make them compatible with 
CC-BY-NC-ND, but that would defeat the purpose of compatibility with 
Wikimedia, from what I understand.

I'm no expert in the PSI licence however, so feel free to correct any 
misunderstandings here.

Cheers,
Andy


Rufus Pollock wrote:

2009/7/2 Joseph Seddon <joseph.seddon< at >wikimedia.org.uk>:

My basic feeling is: yes. See:

<http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/ukpsi>

The only issue would be a) the fact you must get a click-use license
(it would be preferable if this were automatic -- and I think they are
moving that way ...) b) the obligations under section 9 (which are
reproduced at above link). These are generally innocuous and focused
on you not "passing" your derivative material off as official (which
is sort of similar to the provisions in the CC licenses).

However niggling items like 9.4 (reproduce Material accurately from
the current Official Source except where you make it clear that there
is a more up to date version available;) could, possibly, be
problematic re CC by-sa.

In summary: in spirit the answer would seem a definite yes.

In practice likely also yes though one may have to check about those
pesky section 9 items


Good stuff. The major issue to lobby on, if any, are those clauses in section 9.

Rufus

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Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No. 11 has just been sent out:

Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No. 11

Welcome to the eleventh Open Knowledge Foundation newsletter!

Contents:

• The OKF turns five and we need your support!
• Open Database License (ODbL) goes 1.0
• European Open Data Inventory + Summit
• Launch of the Open Data Grid
• New developments on Public Domain Works
• Other news in brief
• Thanks to our volunteers!
• Support the Open Knowledge Foundation
• Further information

THE OKF TURNS FIVE - AND WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

This month the Open Knowledge Foundation is five years old. Over those last five years we’ve done much to promote open access to information — from sonnets to stats, genes to geodata — not only in the form of specific projects like Open Shakespeare and Public Domain Works but also in the creation of tools such as KnowledgeForge and the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, standards such as the Open Knowledge Definition, and events such as OKCon, designed to benefit the wider open knowledge community. (To find out more about what we’ve been up to in the last year, you can read our latest annual report [1]).

While we have achieved a lot, we believe we can do much, much more. We are therefore reaching out to our community and asking you to help us take our vision further.

Our aim: at least a 100 supporters committed to making regular, ongoing donations of £5 (EUR 6, $7.50) or more a month.

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We will always be a not-for-profit organization, built on the work of passionate volunteers. But with these additional funds, we believe we can make our efforts go much, much further. Please consider becoming a supporter and help us take our work forward.

• The OKF Turns 5 - And We Need Your Support
• [1] Open Knowledge Foundation Annual Report 2008-2009

OPEN DATABASE LICENSE (ODbL) GOES 1.0

Open Data Commons, an OKF affiliated project, has now released v1.0 of the Open Database License (ODbL) after 6 months of consultation. The Open Database License (ODbL) is an open share-alike license for data and databases.

This license, the first of its kind, is a major step forward for open data as there are few license currently available which are appropriate to data and databases and none which provide for share-alike (existing share-alike licenses such as the GPL, GFDL and CC By-SA are all unsuitable for data).

This work has been led by an OKF Board Member, Jordan Hatcher, and has benefited over the last 6 months of consultation from extensive comments and feedback from the open data community, especially those in the Open Street Map project.

• Open Database License (ODbL)
• Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 Released

EUROPEAN OPEN DATA INVENTORY + SUMMIT

The First European Open Data Summit in Brussels brought together journalists, researchers, civic hackers, and representatives from European institutions for two days of documenting and building on documents and datasets from European institutions and member states. Work from the event received coverage from the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times.

We presented our work on the European Open Data Inventory, which includes just under 150 packages. You can see these under the ‘eutransparency’ tag on CKAN:

• http://ckan.net/tag/read/eutransparency

For each package we looked for legal information and whether or not items could be downloaded in bulk - providing direct download links where possible. Data includes everything from budget information to statistics to postcode databases.

• European Open Data Summit

LAUNCH OF THE OPEN DATA GRID

We started a distributed storage project, aiming to provide distributed storage infrastructure for OKF and other open knowledge projects. After researching various technical options, we’ve launched an Open Data Grid based on Allmydata’s open-source “Tahoe” system. Anyone can store open data on the grid, or start running a storage node.

• Open Data Grid
• Launch of Open Data Grid

NEW DEVELOPMENTS ON PUBLIC DOMAIN WORKS!

We have now completed a major load of data into the Public Domain Works database. There are now 125318 persons, 12840 items and 299141 works in the database. The data we have there comes primarily from two sources: people and book data from Philip Harper’s NGCOBA and recordings data from the online discographies provided by KCL’s CHARM project.

We also have a load more sound recordings data (~ 600k items) almost ready to go courtesy of Edward Betts and the Open Library. (And we are yet to even get started on the BBC GRAMS data …).

Also work on the public domain calculators is still ticking over. Gisle Hannemyr recently put together a first draft of a copyright flowchart for Norway.

• Public Domain Works
• New developments on Public Domain Works!

OTHER NEWS IN BRIEF

• Talis launches ‘Connected Commons’ for open data at OKCon 2009
• 5th Communia Workshop: Post-Event Information + Statement
• CKAN 0.8 Released
• Cornell University Library keeps reproductions of public domain works in the public domain
• Virtual Meeting for Open Textbooks
• Data.gov goes live!
• Flickr put shapefiles in the public domain
• Virtual meeting for Working Group on Open Data in Science
• New mailing list for open knowledge in development
• Two new board members: James Casbon and Paula Le Dieu!
• KForge v0.16 Released
• French translation of the Open Knowledge Definition (OKD)
• New developments on ‘Where Does My Money Go?’

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2009/6/20 Josh Tauberer <tauberer-a/DWi0ZiwrFzbRFIqnYvSA< at >public.gmane.org>:
[...]

I think there was a misunderstanding here: what I meant was that in a
lot of jurisdictions (most of those which are not the USA!) government
content or data does *not* start out "not subject to copyright, patent
..." (whereas in the USA, at least in theory, for federal data/content
it does).

Thus, in many places, to make the data "open" it needs to be
explicitly licensed/dedicated. Now that could be by
licensing/dedicating to the public domain or, as is the case with the
UK PSI click-use license, making the data freely available for use and
reuse but subject to an attribution and (minor) integrity requirement.

At least in this second case, though the data is "open", that does not
mean it is "not subject to any copyright, ..." -- just in the way that
code licensed under the GPL or content under a Creative Commons
attribution license is open but the material is still "subject to
copyright".


Absolutely: a dataset may comply o

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My friend Dr. Sam Batzli, Director, WisconsinView, has made available  
the program's more than 6 Terabytes of satellite imagery under the CC0  
Protocol. Here is a "press release"

Since 2004, WisconsinView (http://www.wisconsinview.org) has made  
aerial photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin available to the  
public for free over the web. As part of the AmericaView consortium,  
WisconsinView supports access and use of these imagery collections  
through education, workforce development, and research. Starting June  
30, 2009, WisconsinView is making available all of its more than 6  
Terabytes of imagery data under the new CC0 Protocol provided by  
Creative Commons. The CC0 (pronounced CC-Zero) Protocol waives any  
rights in a dataset, ensuring that all of the dataset is available to  
anyone without encumbrance of any kind. More information on CC0 is  
available at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0, and the reasoning  
behind the protocol is described at http://sciencecommons.org/projects/p

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2009/6/24 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray< at >okfn.org>:

Yes, though not really sure about emphasis on RDF/LOD. I'm not at all
against RDF but I don't see that conversion to RDF is a necessity for
getting government data "out there" -- give it to us raw, give it to
us now ...

Rufus


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2009/6/26 IAN ELSOM <ian.elsom< at >btinternet.com>:

Great to hear from you.

[...]


So the key thing here is: a) primary sources b) that are open (so you
can use and reuse them)


Right. I guess the difficult question here is how to find out what has
been done already -- either you have to have some central repository
or you have to have some way to search effectively across
decentralized materials.

My feeling, would be to shy away from trying to create an overarching
"portal" site and focus on a more decentralized approach in which you
pull together in a looser way interested individuals and communities.
The simplest way to start I'd guess here is just a blog plus a basic
registry of what resources already exist and then use that as a basis
to reach out to what existing communities exist.


This sounds great and we'd be delighted to help support such an effort
in whatever way would be useful. We've already got some history
related projects (e.g. http://weavinghistory.org/) but nothing close
to what you are p

Open Data Commons have released v1.0 of the Open Database License (ODbL), a share-alike license for data and databases.

This is really big news for anyone working on open data as there are very few open data licenses available and none that provide for share-alike.

From the announce:

We are delighted to announce the release of v1.0 of the Open Database License (ODbL):

http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/

The Open Database License (ODbL) is an open license for data and databases which includes explicit attribution and share-alike requirements.

This license, the first of its kind, is a major step forward for open data. There are currently very few licenses available suited to data and databases and none which provide for share-alike (existing share-alike licenses such as the GPL, GFDL and CC By-SA are all unsuitable for data).

The development of the ODbL, has been a major effort extending over more than one and half years with an intensive consultation and review period for the last 6 months. We’d like to express our thanks to the communities and individuals who have contributed during this time.

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Open Data Commons have released v1.0 of the Open Database License
(ODbL) a share-alike license for data and databases. See the full
announce below.

This is big news for anyone working on open data so please
redistribute to all interested individuals and communities.

Regards,

Rufus

  ~~ Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 Released ~~

<http://www.opendatacommons.org/2009/06/29/open-database-license-odbl-v10-released/>

Open Data Commons are delighted to announce the release of v1.0 of the
Open Database License (ODbL):

  <http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/>

The Open Database License (ODbL) is an open license for data and
databases which gives users freedom to use, reuse and redistribute
subject only to the requirement of attribution and share-alike.

This license, the first of its kind, is a major step forward for open
data. There are currently very few licenses available suited to data
and databases and none which provide for share-alike (existing
share-alike licenses such as the GPL, GFDL and 

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This is interesting!

  http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/GovData

Jonathan


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jose M. Alonso <josema-Pl0VvzL1eo4< at >public.gmane.org>
Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Subject: Putting Government Data online (by TimBL)
To: eGov IG <public-egov-ig-Pl0VvzL1eo4< at >public.gmane.org>


All,

Tim Berners-Lee just made public a new document in his "Design Issues"
series called "Putting Government Data online"

 http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/GovData

This is _very_ related to our Open Government Data discussions and
you'll find there some similarities to the draft data.gov.* memo we've
been discussing recently.

Best,
Jose.

--
Jose M. Alonso <josema-Pl0VvzL1eo4< at >public.gmane.org>    W3C/CTIC
eGovernment Lead                  http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/

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We have now completed a major load of data into the Public Domain Works database:

• http://publicdomainworks.net/

There are now 125318 persons, 12840 items and 299141 works in the database. The data we have there comes primarily from two sources: people and book data from Philip Harper’s NGCOBA and recordings data from the online discographies provided by KCL’s CHARM project.

We also have a load more sound recordings data (~ 600k items) almost ready to go courtesy of Edward Betts and the Open Library. (And we are yet to even get started on the BBC GRAMS data …).

Also work on the public domain calculators is still ticking over. Gisle Hannemyr recently put together a first draft of a copyright flowchart for Norway.

Join the pd-discuss list to get involved!

• http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-discuss

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