Creative commons

Open Data and Creative

Commonsin South Australia

An initiative of the City of Salisbury and University of South Australia

An initiative of the City of Salisbury and University of South Australia

Current status – future directions

OPEN DATA AND CREATIVE COMMONS

Creative Commons

CC = alternative copyright licensing

Attribution:

BY

Share Alike:

SA

Non commercial:

NC

No Derivatives:ND

Why Creative Commons? Cost savings through the reuse of CC

licensed materials Increased transparency Enhanced reputation through reuse of

our Copyrighted materials Increased awareness of the possible

reuse of our materials

Open Data

“Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.” 1

Why Open Data? Increased transparency Increased trust Greater flexibility for the users of our

data and materials (they don’t need to ask)

More likely that 3rd party users will do innovative things

Who is doing it?

State and Federal Government

Federal Government Gov2.0 ABS BOM

SA State Government DPTI Open Data Statement State Library

Current Uses at Salisbury

Water Data

Re-use

Images, videos, music and words reused.

Digital Enterprise Program

All content provided by contractors must be licensed CC BY

SA Local Government

SA Local Government

City of Salisbury Adelaide City Council City of Burnside Port Adelaide Enfield Council LGA

Local Data opportunities

Thoughts and Action Points Where does policy feature in the

conversation Supply data sets for use in

Unleashed/LocalData.net.au Consider use of CC licensing as default Feature Open Data and Creative

Commons in the Digital Strategy

Links and references Creative Commons Australia Open Technology Foundation Unleashed Polaris Centre

1.  Auer, S. R.; Bizer, C.; Kobilarov, G.; Lehmann, J.; Cyganiak, R.; Ives, Z. (2007). "DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data". The Semantic Web. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4825. p. 722. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_52.ISBN 978-3-540-76297-3.

Ebusiness Strategic Advisor, City of Salisbury

[email protected]

@rhysatwork

Rhys Moult