A Licence to ThrillThe Exciting Potential of Open Data

Jane Stevenson, The Archives Hub

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Open Up!

“Scholarly communications is changing, and changing rapidly. Technological developments have expanded the potential range of dissemination of research and the delivery mechanisms, with researchers expecting any-time, anywhere access.”

Ithaka S+R | Jisc | RLUK, UK Survey of Academics 2012

http://murallocator.org/2010/11/love-letter-anywhere-anyplace-anytime/

• OPENNESS• WIDER PUBLIC

ENGAGEMENT• IMPACT

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Open

Promotes a philosophy and practice requiring that data be freely available to everyone, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. Licences to reuse are acceptable, but not licences that restrict access.

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“The things that have happened with the Web have really blown us away; they are much more than we initially imagined.”…There is still huge potential to unlock…” Tim Berners-Lee

http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html

“[If] it’s all open source you don’t need anybody’s permission to create something great” Massimo Banzi

An open source 3D printer. http://www.ted.com/playlists/13/open_source_open_world.html

Arduino: an open-source electronics prototyping platform

OPEN IN PRACTICE

Legal

• UK Freedom of Information Act, 2000

• Germany, freedom of information law,

2005

• Norway, freedom of information

legislation, 2006

• EU right of access to European

parliament, Council and Commission

documents, 2000 & 2001

• etc, etc.

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CONCLUSIONS

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“My…research examines the ways in which copyright may inappropriately be a barrier to online access….My research has found that memory institutions are more cautious than copyright law requires when digitizing their holdings and making them available online.”

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“Products, recommendations, decisions and entire businesses are being constructed on top of data sourced from [elsewhere].

Without an understanding of where that data came from, and how it was collected, interpreted or maintained, all of those products, recommendations, decisions and businesses stand upon very shaky foundations indeed.”

Paul Miller, Cloud of Data http://cloudofdata.com/2013/05/getting-it-right-with-data-attribution/

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We should proactively seek to create positive

change.

This doesn’t mean everything has to be open.

It means open is generally a good thing.

It means we must engage in the debate.

It means we try to do what is in the interests of

research, knowledge and understanding.