[Taxacom] An open data commons

[Jim Croft]

For those interested in free and open source software and such like,
this data commons project and license,
http://www.opendatacommons.org/
and its associated wiki
http://www.okfn.org/wiki/wg/odol/odc
might be worth a look.

Not sure how or to what extent it might intersect with
http://creativecommons.org/
or
http://sciencecommons.org/
which seem to be a bit richer in term of content and specification and
are getting a reasonable degree of penetration in biodiversity
applications development  and data management circles.

jim
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