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Data and CC licenses
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Where CC0 is not desired for whatever reason (business requirements, community wishes, institutional policy…), CC licenses can and should be used for data and databases — with the important caveat that CC 3.0 license conditions do not apply to uses of data and databases that do not implicate copyright. Read more about this
here
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Data and CC license use cases
1.1
Australia Federal Government
1.2
Australia Queensland State Government
1.3
Austrian government
1.4
ChEMBL
1.5
DBpedia
1.6
Finnish Libraries
1.7
Freebase
1.8
Geocommons
1.9
German railway
1.10
Google
1.11
Greece Government
1.12
Italian Government
1.13
MusicBrainz
1.14
Mydosis Portal
1.15
New Zealand Government
1.16
Open Directory Project (dmoz)
1.17
OpenStreetMap
1.18
Paleobiology Database
1.19
Powerhouse Museum
1.20
Spain (Basque) Government - Open Data Euskadi
1.21
Stack Overflow
1.22
Uniprot
1.23
United Kingdom Government
Other public datasets
Data and CC license use cases
This is a list of uses of CC licenses for data. For uses of the
CC0
public domain dedication for data, see
CC0 use for data
Australia Federal Government
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Three of the largest sources of Australian federal government data sets —
Australian Bureau of Statistics
(ABS),
Geoscience Australia
and the still beta
data.gov.au
— are all licensed by default under
CC Attribution
. Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The
ABS
and
Geoscience Australia
have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines to assist with user implementation. data.gov.au played a major role in the
Mashup Australia
competition run by Australia's
Government 2.0 Taskforce
. Results from the contest (over 50 datasets) were released on data.gov.au.
Australia Queensland State Government
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Various data
in the Australian state of Queensland's Office of Economic and Statistical Research are licensed under
CC Attribution
. The Queensland Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) seeks to create and implement a new standardized CC licensing arrangement for all Queensland Government information.
Austrian government
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The Austrian government has launched an
open data portal
with much of its data available under
CC BY
. The portal's
states (via google translator), "The Cooperation for Open Data OGD recommends the license "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Austria ( CC BY 3.0 ) ". We must make the data to copy, distribute, publicly accessible, commercial use, and make modifications and adaptations of the work or of the content. It does not mean that everything on this portal, which will be released in the future as open data, necessarily subject to this license. You see, therefore, indicated in the description of data, the appropriate license for that particular record. In the CC BY 3.0 license just mentioned the name of the author or copyright holder is to be mentioned in a fixed manner."
ChEMBL
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DBpedia
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DBpedia is a community organized effort to extract structured data from Wikipedia and make it available on the web so that it can be queried and linked to other datasets. DBpedia currently describes 3.5 million things, and is available for
under
CC Attribution-ShareAlike
Finnish Libraries
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
Freebase
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Freebase is a collaborative project that imports structured data from a
variety of sources
on the web, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and the Stanford University Library. Freebase currently contains information about 20 million topics, or entities, and its data is available for reuse under
CC Attribution
Geocommons
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German railway
Google
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Google Ngram Viewer has released its dataset under CC BY:
Greece Government
Greece has opened up its geospatial data by implementing CC on
geodata.gov.gr/geodata
. The data is available under CC Attribution or CC Attribution-ShareAlike
according to the type of data
. Greek geodata is also available at
opengeodata.gr
under CC Attribution-ShareAlike
, an implementation of the
INSPIRE
directive.
Italian Government
Italy's National Institute of Statistics has
released all data
on its site under the CC Attribution license. The Italian Chamber of Deputies shares
its data
via CC BY-SA. The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research also launched its
Open Data portal
under CC BY.
MusicBrainz
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MusicBrainz
is a user-maintained database of information about artists and their music, including title, artist, release date, format, and other data. The data on MusicBrainz is available as public domain material free to be reused without restrictions or under the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike. The distinctions between types of data are explained
here
Mydosis Portal
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The contents of the database Mydosis are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
New Zealand Government
New Zealand's
Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification
was released under a
CC Attribution license
on the
Koordinates
website. More info is available at
CC New Zealand
Open Directory Project (dmoz)
CC-BY,
OpenStreetMap
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OpenStreetMap
is a user-generated map of the world, amassing geodata collaboratively from around the globe. Its dataset is available under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. After the earthquake in Haiti, OpenStreetMap found an
immediate niche
to fill, launching their
Project Haiti page
in an effort to map out what was, at the time, a largely incomplete geographical picture, helping those on the ground in Haiti get to where they needed to be with greater accuracy.
Paleobiology Database
One of the largest compendia of fossil data assembled to date is the Paleobiology Database (PBDB), founded in 1998 by John Alroy and Charles Marshall. The PBDB has since grown to include an international group of more than 150 contributing scientists with diverse research agendas. Collectively, this body of volunteer and grant-supported investigators have spent more than 9 continuous person years entering more than 280,000 taxonomic names, nearly 500,000 published opinions on the status and classification of those names, and over 1.1 million taxonomic occurrences. After a year of community feedback and discussion, the Paleobiology Database has taken the decision that “All records are made available to the public based on a Creative Commons license that requires attribution before use.” The Paleobiology Database is
now licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License
Powerhouse Museum
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Powerhouse Museum
- releases a large range of material under CC, including its
photo of the day
downloadable pdfs
from its Play program and the museum's general
collection information and data
Spain (Basque) Government - Open Data Euskadi
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In 2009, the Basque government opened up its data via the portal
Open Data Euskadi
, licensing all of its public data under
CC Attribution
. The Basque government listed as its reasoning for opening data, to "generate value and wealth," "create transparency," and "facilitate interoperability between administrations." The government especially encourages reuse of its data by the private sector, other public administrations, and stakeholders to promote transparency in government.
Stack Overflow
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CC BY-SA
Uniprot
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Uniprot, the world’s most comprehensive catalog of information on proteins, is available for reuse under
CC Attribution-NoDerivs
. The license is viable for all
copyrightable parts
of Uniprot's database.
United Kingdom Government
Through
data.gov.uk
, the United Kingdom has made available a growing number of government datasets (currently at 5,400) under
terms that are interoperable
with the
CC Attribution license
. This portal includes all affiliated websites such as the
Ordinance Survey's
maps.
Other public datasets
A list on Github of Awesome public datasets, not necessarily under CC licenses:
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