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The document discusses New Zealand's leadership in open data. It defines open data and explains why data should be freely available. New Zealand has developed a common licensing framework called NZGOAL that uses Creative Commons licenses as the default for government data. New Zealand also launched a government data catalog called Data.govt.nz that currently lists 401 datasets from 58 agencies. The country is working to increase community contribution around open data resources.
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- 1. Open Data The view from New Zealand Laurence Millar Share-PSI workshop Brussels May 2011
- 2. Agenda l Open data – what and why? l NZ leadership l NZ licensing l NZ data catalog l NZ community contribution
- 3. Open data Data that is available in the “right” way: ü Complete ü Machine processable ü Primary ü Non-discriminatory ü Timely ü Non-proprietary ü Accessible ü Open reuse licence Adapted from http://wiki.opengovdata.org/index.php?title=OpenDataPrinciples
- 4. Government must shift…. From Retail… … to Wholesale
- 5. Why should we free our data? l People have funded the collection of the data, and want/are entitled to access it l Public access improves quality l Marginal cost of distribution is minimal l Agencies do not have the resources or the innovative skills to respond to the variety of needs/uses of the data l Increases economic and public value
- 6. Directions and Priorities for Government ICT
- 7. Direction 2
- 8. • Stimulate cultural, environmental, social and economic growth • Allow greater transparency of government’s performance Benefits • Promote private sector innovation • Allow greater external participation in government policy development • Enable communities to build on existing data to gain knowledge and expertise and use it for new purposes
- 9. • Confusion around Crown copyright and licensing Why • Outdated policy settings develop a • Agencies interested in Creative Commons licences common • Public and private initiatives opening up licensing government data • International developments in public framework? sector information re-use • NZ’s economic climate
- 10. NZ • Guidance for State Services agencies Government • covers both copyright and non- Open copyright material that is: • produced by or for these agencies Access and and is appropriate for release to the Licensing public or sections of the public; and • which the agencies are entitled to framework release for re-use. (NZGOAL)
- 11. NZGOAL – licensing Creative Commons Attribution BY licence is the default licence preference for copyright (Crown or ‘regular’ works)
- 13. • Launched November 2009 • Pilot directory exposing existing datasets • 401 pages list datasets from 58 Data.govt.nz agencies • New automated feed functionality • Developing dataset demand functionality • To be evaluated July 2011
- 15. Community resources http://wiki.open.org.nz/