Data and CC licenses
This is a list of uses CC licenses for data. For uses of CC0 public domain dedication for data, see CC0 use for data.
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Data and CC license use cases
Australian Government
Three of the largest sources of Australian federal government data sets — Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Geoscience Australia and the still beta data.australia.gov.au — are all licensed by default under CC Attribution. Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The ABS and Geoscience Australia have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the Mashup Australia competition run by Australia's Government 2.0 Taskforce. Results from the contest (over 50 datasets) were released were on data.australia.gov.au.
Queensland (State) Government
Various data in the Australian state of Queensland's Office of Economic and Statistical Research are licensed under CC Attribution. The Queensland Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) seeks to create and implement a new standardized CC licensing arrangement for all Queensland Government information.
DBpedia
DBpedia is a community organized effort to extract structured data from Wikipedia and make it available on the web so that it can be queried and linked to other datasets. DBpedia currently describes 3.5 million things, and is available for download under CC Attribution-ShareAlike.
Freebase
Freebase is a collaborative project that imports structured data from a variety of sources on the web, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and the Stanford University Library. Freebase currently contains information about 20 million topics, or entities, and its data is available for reuse under CC Attribution.
Greece Government
Greece has opened up its geospatial data by implementing CC on geodata.gov.gr/geodata. The data is available under CC Attribution or CC Attribution-ShareAlike according to the type of data. Greek geodata is also available at opengeodata.gr under CC Attribution-ShareAlike, an implementation of the INSPIRE directive.
MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is a user-maintained database of information about artists and their music, including title, artist, release date, format, and other data. The data on MusicBrainz is available as public domain material free to be reused without restrictions or under the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike. The distinctions between types of data are explained here.
New Zealand Government
- The Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence on the Koordinates website - http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets
OpenStreetMap
- http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20350
- http://de.creativecommons.org/openstreetmaporg/
- http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OpenStreetMap
Poland Government
- Equal Program projects database - Polish Ministry of Regional Development has required materials produced in the scope of the EQUAL program, collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
Powerhouse Museum
Powerhouse Museum - releases a large range of material under CC, including its photo of the day, downloadable pdfs from its Play program and the museum's general collection information and data.
Spain (Basque) Government
- The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.
Uniprot
- see http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2006/02/09/worlds-largest-protein-db-now-under-cc-license/
United Kingdom Government
- data.gov.uk, including all affiliated websites such as Ordinance Survey's maps. "aligned to be interoperable with any Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence" [1]
