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Re: Eurostat licensing?

2009/6/3 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray <at> okfn.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> Andreas Harth currently has an RDF version of Eurostat at:
>
>  http://ontologycentral.com/2009/01/eurostat/
>
> He does not host the whole thing, but states: "Unfortunately we cannot
> provide access to the full dataset due to limited storage and
> bandwidth resources. If you are interested in the full dataset and
> able to sponsor our effort please contact us."
>
> I understand Talis would consider hosting the data if it was fully
> open. There is mention of some commercial restrictions at:
>
>  http://ckan.net/package/read/eurostat

Strictly their requirement to have a (free) license for commercial
redistribution makes them non-open but it seems from the below that
this has now changed.

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> There is also: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/about_eurostat/corporate/copyright_licence_policy
>
> Which re-iterates that material may be used for any purpose
> (commercial or noncommercial) as long as source is attributed - unless
> otherwise stated.
>
> Hence I understand that the bulk of Eurostat data is OKD compliant,

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Andreas Harth | 5 Jun 15:06

Re: Eurostat licensing?

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 04:43:57PM +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> 2009/6/3 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@...>:
> > Andreas Harth currently has an RDF version of Eurostat at:
> >
> >  http://ontologycentral.com/2009/01/eurostat/
> >
> > He does not host the whole thing, but states: "Unfortunately we cannot
> > provide access to the full dataset due to limited storage and
> > bandwidth resources. If you are interested in the full dataset and
> > able to sponsor our effort please contact us."
> >
> [...]
> > Hence I understand that the bulk of Eurostat data is OKD compliant,
> > effectively under an attribution license?
> 
> Yes, that seems to be the case. It would be great if Talis were able
> to host this data -- it seems a really useful resource and a good
> example of repurposing/value-adding thanks to the material being open.

As said before, I'd be happy to provide the data for hosting at Talis -
the dataset is relatively large though (tens of GB).  At the moment
I'm serving from static files and do not require a SPARQL endpoint,
which should lower the resource requirements.  Some configuration for
redirects etc. would be needed if hosted on a different server.

Cheers,
Andreas.

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Jonathan Gray | 16 Jun 14:43

Re: Eurostat licensing?

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Andreas Harth<andreas@...> wrote:
> As said before, I'd be happy to provide the data for hosting at Talis -
> the dataset is relatively large though (tens of GB).  At the moment
> I'm serving from static files and do not require a SPARQL endpoint,
> which should lower the resource requirements.  Some configuration for
> redirects etc. would be needed if hosted on a different server.

Great! So I guess this would depend on whether Talis Connected Commons
would accept open data that is under an attribution license as well as
data that is in the public domain.

Leigh - what do you think? It would be amazing if Connected Commons
would accept data under an attribution style license - which
presumably would include, e.g. lots of EU data and UK government data!

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