the speaker Svein-Magnus Sørensen Twitter: @ SveinMagnus http://slideshare.net/sveinmagnus Finding real gold with open data 1 Open Data - a goldmine Photo by BullionVault @ Flickr, CC BY-ND Business Analyst of Digital Innovation at Objectware AS Master of Science in communications tech and entrepreneurship
Defining and using open data according to the open knowledge definition and the science commons protocol. Slides from my presentation of this topic at the Defrag Conference 2009 in Denver, Colorado.
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Canadian GoldCorp Inc. was near collapse in the late 90’ies.It’s Red Lake mine showed reduced output after 50 years of production Then something previously unheard of happened:
Inspired by the crowd-sourcing of Linux and Open Source, Rob McEwen announced The GoldCorp Challenge: a competition to find new gold in the mine. The full geological dataset from Red Lake was made available to contestants.
• Open Knowledge Definition (http://www.opendefinition.org/)
Open data/content/information must:1. Be Available and Accessible at Reproduction Cost “As a Whole”2. Permit Free Redistribution3. Permit Reuse Under Same Terms4. Be Absent of Technological Restrictions5. Be Attributed as Required6. Keep Source Integrity7. Not Discriminate Access From Persons or Groups8. Not Discriminate Against Fields of Endeavor9. Be Distributed with only the Original License10. Must Not Be Licensed Specific to a Package11. Must Not by License Restrict the Distribution of Other Works