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| − | Three of the largest sources of Australian federal government data sets | + | Three of the largest sources of Australian federal government data sets — [[Case_Studies/Australian_Bureau_of_Statistics|Australian Bureau of Statistics]] (ABS), [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] and the still beta |
| − | [http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] | + | [http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] — are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ 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 [http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB ABS] and [http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.jsp Geoscience Australia] have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the [http://mashupaustralia.org/ Mashup Australia] competition run by Australia's [http://gov2.net.au/ Government 2.0 Taskforce]. Results from the contest (over 50 datasets) were released were on data.australia.gov.au. |
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====[[Case_Studies/Government_Information_Licensing_Framework|Queensland (State) Government]]==== | ====[[Case_Studies/Government_Information_Licensing_Framework|Queensland (State) Government]]==== | ||
Revision as of 22:12, 27 January 2011
This is a list of uses CC licenses for data. For uses of CC0 public domain dedication for data, see CC0 use for data.
Contents
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 are CC licensed. The Queensland Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) seeks to create and implement a new standardized CC licensing arrangement for all Queensland Government information.
DBpedia
- structured information extracted from Wikipedia
- http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads36
Freebase
Greece Government
- 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
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).
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]
