2. Open
The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royaltyfree, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the
Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to
the terms below.
You are free to:
• Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or
otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or
format for any lawful purpose.
http://data.gc.ca/eng/open-government-licence-canada
2
4. 2013 - G8 Science Ministers
“To the greatest extent and with the fewest constraints
possible publicly funded scientific research data should be
open”
http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/science/130613-science.html
4
5. 2014 - Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
“promote the free and open access to Earth observing
data and information for the benefit of society” – John Kerry,
US Secretary of State
“Open government data is important for democratic
governance and supports innovation, business creation and
efficiency.” - Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Director of NIST, Under
Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology
5
8. Open x 3
• Open Access
• Scientific journal literature
• Open Government
• Processes and information within government
• Open Science
• Entire scientific process
8
9. Open scientific data online and offline
• Challenges of storing, sharing and citing datasets
• Linking data to publications
• Connecting open data to software developer and civil
society communities
9
11. Storing
• Someone has to pay. Forever.
• The location has to be resolvable. Forever.
11
12. Sharing
• Canadian Open Government License
• CC0 “Creative Commons Zero”
• CC-BY “Attribution”
• More information in Dr. Theresa Scassa’s session
Open Government: Intellectual Property And Other
Considerations
Wednesday at noon
12
16. Connecting: Software Developers
• machine-readable files ideally with well-supported
software libraries for parsing the format(s)
• well-documented API
• open license
• support & use platforms that provide the above
• hackathons to bring domain experts together with
software developers
16
http://www.geogratis.gc.ca/ & http://data.gc.ca/Also GeoBase http://www.geobase.ca/NRCan geo data is the largest set of data in data.gc.ca by a factor of over 30screenshots
Different drivers of “open” combining together.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_goddard/8658706340/ CC-BYAn access panel on the side of the EUNIS rocket opens up for easy access to the wires and internal machinery.The Extreme Ultraviolet Normal-Incidence Spectrograph (EUNIS) experiment was successfully launched at 1:30 p.m. EDT on April 23, 2013
http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads
http://nsidc.org/ipydis/screenshot
can also contact Research Data Canada http://rds-sdr.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/ for information about access to scientific data and data preservation
Software developers have a hard time knowing where to find quality open data geographic resources. A lot of use of “well-known” base layers and platforms e.g. Google, Bing, ESRI, ArcGIS.
