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The Open Definition is a document published by the
Why the Open Definition Matters for Open Data
', September 2014 blog post by
The Open Definition is a document published by the Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a global, non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge, including both content and data. It was founded by Rufus Pollock on 20 May 2004 in Cambridge, UK. It is incorporated in England a ...
(OKF) (previously Open Knowledge International) to define openness
Openness is an overarching concept or philosophy that is characterized by an emphasis on transparency and collaboration. That is, openness refers to "accessibility of knowledge, technology and other resources; the transparency of action; the per ...
in relation to data
In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpret ...
and content
Content or contents may refer to:
Media
* Content (media), information or experience provided to audience or end-users by publishers or media producers
** Content industry, an umbrella term that encompasses companies owning and providing mas ...
. It specifies what licences for such material may and may not stipulate, in order to be considered open licence
A free license or open license is a license which allows others to reuse another creator’s work as they wish. Without a special license, these uses are normally prohibited by copyright, patent or commercial license. Most free licenses are w ...
s. The definition itself was derived from the Open Source Definition for software.
OKI summarise the document as:
The latest form of the document, published in November 2015, is version 2.1. The use of language in the document is conformant with RFC 2119
A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication in a series from the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet, most prominently the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). An RFC is authored by individuals or g ...
.
The document is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which itself meets the Open Definition.
History
* August 2005: Circulation of the first draft of the Open Definition, v0.1. * July 2006: publication of v1.0 * November 2009: publication of v1.1 * October 2014: publication of v2.0 * November 2015: publication of v2.1See also
*Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities is an international statement on open access and access to knowledge. It emerged from a conference on open access hosted in the Harnack House in Berlin by the Ma ...
* Budapest Open Access Initiative
The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) is a public statement of principles relating to open access to the research literature, which was released to the public on February 14, 2002. It arose from a conference convened in Budapest by the Open S ...
*Definition of Free Cultural Works
The Definition of Free Cultural Works is a definition of free content from 2006. The project evaluates and recommends compatible free content licenses.
History
The Open Content Project by David A. Wiley in 1998 was a predecessor project which ...
* UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration The UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration, otherwise known as the Paris declaration on Open Educational Resources, is a declaration urging governments to promote the use of open educational resources (OERs) and calling for publicly funded educational ma ...
References
External links
* *Why the Open Definition Matters for Open Data
', September 2014 blog post by
Rufus Pollock
Rufus Pollock (born 1980) is a British economist, activist and social entrepreneur. He has been a leading figure in the global open knowledge and open data movements, starting with his founding in 2004 of the non-profit Open Knowledge Foundation w ...
, founder and president of OKI
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