Recently stumbled across this PDF of various scanned requests/agreements about sharing environmental data, which I thought might be interesting (and amusing) to some people here:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/availability/agreements.pdf Highlights the transaction costs involved in sharing data on a case by case basis! Would be great to go through datasets in climate data group to establish whether creators would consider using an open license! http://ckan.net/group/climatedata This could be a useful test of our alpha 'Is It Open' service: http://isitopen.ckan.net/ Something to think about in the new year... -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
