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The full scope of the GILF project covers policy, technology and law (e.g. licensing). The project is ongoing, and trials are currently underway relating to OCL, together with collaborations with Federal Government agencies also considering the potential application of CC licences to a significant proportion of their data and information. Stage 3 of the project specifically aims to test CC licences in multi-agency and whole-of-Government arrangements. GILF also has international connections with the UK and EU. | The full scope of the GILF project covers policy, technology and law (e.g. licensing). The project is ongoing, and trials are currently underway relating to OCL, together with collaborations with Federal Government agencies also considering the potential application of CC licences to a significant proportion of their data and information. Stage 3 of the project specifically aims to test CC licences in multi-agency and whole-of-Government arrangements. GILF also has international connections with the UK and EU. | ||
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Revision as of 05:10, 24 April 2008
The adoption and implementation by governments of an open access policy to public sector information (PSI) will ensure the greatest public benefit is derived from the increased use of information created, collected, maintained, used, shared, and disseminated by and for all governments in Australia. — Stanley Declaration, 13 July 2007, Australian National Summit on Open Access to Public Sector Information
Overview
The Queensland Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) was established in 2006 by the Queensland Spatial Information Council (QSIC) to review international trends in the transaction of public sector information (PSI), and to formulate best practice for the business environment. GILF seeks to create and implement a new standardised information licensing arrangement for all Queensland Government information, providing on-demand access to accurate, consistent and authoritative public sector information (PSI) to support a range of Government initiatives.
After consultation with state, federal, and local government agencies together with the private sector, GILF has recommended that State Government agencies move to an information licensing framework based on Creative Commons for information that carries no concerns relating to privacy, confidentiality or other legal or policy constraints. In the project’s Stage 2 Report produced in 2006, titled Government Information and Open Content Licensing: An Access and Use Strategy, GILF concluded that a significant majority (e.g. 85%) of PSI to be suitable for use with Creative Commons licences.
The Stage 2 Report sets out:
- open content licensing and information management principles being developed nationally and internationally;
- a gap analysis undertaken between various existing non-standard licences in use and the Creative Commons licences;
- the review undertaken of the Digital Rights Management (DRM) component of the GILF to electronic tag licensed data;
- a roadmap to implement the framework in pilot agencies. A preliminary draft toolkit is included to assist with pilot agency implementation including addressing policy, technology and legal issues.
In a subsequent conference report for the Australian National Summit on Open Access to Public Sector Information, held in Brisbane on 13 July 2007, GILF observed that:
- ‘A broad consensus emerged in favour of the benefits to be derived from government implementing an open access policy, subject to proper protection of private and other restricted information, and the use of Creative Commons (CC) open content licences for the majority of PSI which is unaffected by privacy or other restricting factors. Conceptually, open access to PSI leads to the realisation of the information’s full social, cultural, environmental, civil society, and commercial potential.’ (p. 24)
The full scope of the GILF project covers policy, technology and law (e.g. licensing). The project is ongoing, and trials are currently underway relating to OCL, together with collaborations with Federal Government agencies also considering the potential application of CC licences to a significant proportion of their data and information. Stage 3 of the project specifically aims to test CC licences in multi-agency and whole-of-Government arrangements. GILF also has international connections with the UK and EU.
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