Webinar Overview:
GeoConnections, a national initiative led by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), recently collaborated with the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) on a project to build awareness on data licensing in Canada: educating data users and providing them with the resources and tools they need to navigate data licensing’s complex legal landscape.
Canadian data providers currently use a milieu of locally-developed – and often incompatible – data licenses. In order to increase international co-operation and license harmonization, CIPPIC has created outreach, education, and partnerships that focus awareness, understanding and support for use of Creative Commons and other international license standards in Canada. Geospatial data users often need to combine data sets that fall under the terms of other data licenses. Unfortunately, this is often problematic. Data licenses do not always permit users to combine different licenses and, to further complicate matters, the many varied and complex clauses in licenses can be very confusing.
CIPPIC has developed a Data Compatibility Toolkit, including a detailed report, a user guide, and a web-based tool. The report and easy-to-read guide discuss and explain compatibility amongst existing Canadian data license terms, as well as between Canadian licenses and common international licenses. The web-based tool provides functionality that will allow users to easily determine the compatibility of datasets from different sources. In addition, CIPPIC has also developed a Licensing Risk Assessment Toolkit. The toolkit helps users to analyze and discuss legal risks; the web-based tool will allow users to select a particular license and plainly analyze the legal risks to which they may expose themselves. These resources are freely available via http://clipol.org/.
You will learn more about:
- Samuelson-Glushko Centre for Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC),
- Open data, open licensing and Creative Commons Canada,
- Data compatibility,
- Licensing risk assessment,
§ CLIPol (http://clipol.org/),
§ Upcoming GeoConnections events.
Registration:
Please go to: http://www.hal.ca/cgdiwebinars to register for this webinar.
English Webinar: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 – 1:30-3:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
French Webinar: Thursday, February 13, 2014 – 1:30-3:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)