>@JoshData: DC #opendata isnt truly open - TopicsExpress



          

>@JoshData: DC #opendata isnt truly open codefordc.org/blog/2014/09/16/dc-catalog-terms-of-use.html The founder of GovTrack is crying foul over new conditions introduced with the new data catalog from the District of Columbia government: The specter of a lawsuit hanging over the heads of civic hackers has a chilling effect on the creation of projects to benefit the public, even though they make use of public data released for that express purpose, writes Tauberer. How does this happen? Through terms of service, terms of use, and copyright law. Heres my coverage of the launch of the policy, platform and FOIA software in July, which includes Tauberer flagging related concerns immediately: e-pluribusunum/2014/07/21/dc-city-government-executive-order-open-data-foia-portal-cdo/ What are the chances that DC public advocates, technologists, lawyers, wonks, librarians and citizens will go log on to the DC governments open government platform and suggesting changes to the problematic policy? districtofcolumbia.mymadison.io/docs/mayors-order-open-gov Is this the sort of thing that could be a campaign issue?
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 02:54:10 +0000

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