... Open government data. Make core government data open so that it can be re-used in mashups, visually represented, used in semantic web applications and so on! ...
Open access to publicly funded research. ...
Publish public information in way which makes it easy to re-use. For example, publish in XML or Text/CSV, not PDF files which data must be extracted from. Allow direct, bulk downloading, rather than access through an API or piecemeal access via a web service. ...
Legal and licensing clarity. Be clear about what can and can’t be done with public content and data - with explicit legal and licensing statements, terms of use, and so on. Be clear what is in the public domain and what is free for re-use as long as attribution is given. Be clear about what is not available for use - including material where copyright is held by third parties. ...
Make it open by default. Make public content and data - whether its government data, or publicly funded digitisation of cultural heritage artefacts - open by default. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 1/21/2009 06:29:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
