Opening up data in the scientific community is something that’s become increasingly important, and getting the licensing and rights in order is a matter of urgent attention. With more and more researchers needing more and more data, there is an increased need for there to be clear information on what can be done with which data.

I spoke with LSE Research Fellow Dr. Prodromos (Pro) Tsiavos, who is researching open licensing, data sharing and publishing data in the public sector and who is also a Legal Project Lead for Creative Commons England and Wales. Pro’s main focus has been with the Cultural commons, and we discussed culture-shifts in science, and how the expectation that data are shared and licensed changes the way research may be done in future.

In my latest podcast I talk with Leigh Dodds, Programme Manager for the Talis Platform.

We discuss Talis Connected Commons, a recently announced initiative through which developers can host their public domain data in the Talis Platform for free and benefit from the Platform’s capabilities whilst also making their data available to others in the growing Linked Data ecosystem.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Public Data Sets
• BBC
• Creative Commons
• Creative Commons CC0 License
• DBpedia
• Ingenta
• Internet Archive
• Linked Data
• Open Data Commons
• Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication & License
• Science Commons
• Science Commons Open Data Protocol
• Talis
• Talis Connected Commons
• Talis Platform

Image of Leigh Dodds © Gavin Bell, 2008

This conversation was recorded on Wednesday 15 April, 2009.

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