[Geowanking] Fwd: [OGC Press Release] Mash-up event to unite leading minds from the geographic information industry

[Josh@oklieb]

On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:

> Josh at oklieb wrote:
>
>> They also seem to be taking seriously and working at using OGC
>> services to provide specific free or low-cost usage of their data, as
>> distinct from "free for any use" delivery of entire datasets. This is
>> a useful and appropriate connection with the concept of mashups. By
>> the way, almost all data made accessible through OGC services and
>> encodings has some rights reserved (e.g. attribution), however they
>> are being regarded as "free and open".
>
> This is assumed for all data sources?

Not assumed, but there are almost always conditions of use. US and  
Canada are very concerned about the conditions of use even when they  
distribute data without charge. Liability and all that. Expressing  
those conditions has just been rather haphazard and not supported  
explicitly by the OGC Web Services framework up until now (outside of  
a metadata tag in the WMS capabilities).

>
>>
>> My disclaimer: I am working with OS and with OGC on what is called
>> "GeoDRM" but which is actually a wide concept of rights management in
>> the use and distribution of geodata, including such things as
>> Creative Commons and GPL.
>>
>
> So this means there will be a way to specify the actual license under
> which data is published and aggregated?

The idea is to have a common framework for both referencing and  
agreeing to a machine-readable license expression. Stamping a website  
with a Creative Commons logo is one approach, but not always the most  
appropriate, particularly with the variety of ways in which one can  
process and represent geodata.

>
> Andrew
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