Difference between revisions of "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.

Data and CC license use cases

Australian government data

• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Government_Information_Licensing_Framework
• government data - three of the largest sources of Australian government data sets - Australian Bureau of Statistics Australian Bureau of Statistics, Geoscience Australia and the still beta

data.australia.gov.au - are all licensed by default under CC BY 2.5 Australia and/or CC BY 3.0 Australia . 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.

• • over 50 datasets released on data.australia.gov.au http://data.australia.gov.au/ for the Mashup Australia contest: http://mashupaustralia.org/

Greece government geodata

• http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Greece
• http://opengeodata.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece, first implementation of the INSPIRE directive

New Zealand Ministry for the Environment

• 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

Polish Ministry of Regional Development

• 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

• The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.

United Kingdom

• 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]

DBpedia

• structured information extracted from Wikipedia

Freebase

• http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7269

MusicBrainz

• http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_License
• MusicBrainz is an early example (note their recognition that parts of the MusicBrainz database is strictly factual, so in the public domain, while other parts are licensible).

OpenStreetMap

• http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20350
• http://de.creativecommons.org/openstreetmaporg/
• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OpenStreetMap

Uniprot

• see http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2006/02/09/worlds-largest-protein-db-now-under-cc-license/