Posted by
Glen Newton on
Feb 26, 2013; 5:54pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/The-case-for-context-in-defining-Open-Data-tp5474p5475.html
Open Data has a fairly well accepted definition.
If you want to define something else (which may be useful in a related
context), come up with another name for it. Otherwise you are just
muddying the waters.
I was also not convinced by your initial arguments (Weenusk, others).
Almost every data release has implications, and needs to be dealt
with. But do not conflate these issues with Open Data. The very same
data could be released with a restrictive license, and have the same -
in the case of your claims - negative impacts. For example, in the
Weenusk case, the data could be released in with a no-reuse, no
re-distribution license (so clearly not Open Data) and have the exact
same impact.
Do not conflate the content of the data (and the implications of
sharing the knowledge/information contained in the data) with its
license.
-Glen
-glen
-Glen
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Ted Strauss <
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> Hello all,
> In honor of Open Data Day, I wrote this blog post:
> The case for context in defining Open Data
>
> Hope to hear your comments.
>
> It's the first post on Strength in Numbers, the official
> blog of Trudat, with posts by Naomi Kincler and myself.
> Trudat is a web application for collaborative data discovery.
> It will be launching later this year.
>
> --
> Ted Strauss
> Co-founder of Trudat.co
>
> I'm organizing Open Data Exchange in Montreal, April 6, 2013
>
>
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