Safecast: Global sensor network collects and shares radiation data via CC0 - Creative Commons

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"One week after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Diachi plant in March, the Safecast project was born to respond to the information needs of Japanese citizens regarding radiation levels in their environment. Safecast, then known as RDTN.org, started a campaign on Kickstarter “to provide an aggregate feed of nuclear radiation data from governmental, non-governmental and citizen-scientist sources.” All radiation data collected via the project would be dedicated to the public domain using CC0, “available to everyone, including scientists and nuclear experts who can provide context for lay people.” Since then, more than 1.25 million data points have been collected and shared; Safecast has been featured on PBS Newshour; and the project aims to expand its scope to mapping the rest of the world....'Safecast supports the idea that more data – freely available data – is better.' ..."

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http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/30627

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oa.new oa.data oa.licensing ru.do ru.ps oa.cc oa.pd oa.geo oa.libre oa.copyright

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:06

Date published:

12/16/2011, 22:03