Locking Up Any Open Data Taxonomy Is Short Sighted In Todays Online Environment

lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-11-13

Summary:

"Taxonomies shouldn’t be locked up this way. Let alone taxonomies for use in open data, helping citizens at the municipal level. I understand that 211 LA will argue that they’ve put a bunch of work into the schema, and therefore they want to protect what they view their intellectual property, but in 2017 this is wrong. This isn’t the way things should be done, sorry. The AIRS taxonomy should be openly available, and reusable in a machine readable format, and evolved by an open governance process. There is no reason for this valuable taxonomy, that has the potential to make our cities better, should be locked up like this–it needs to be widely used, and adopted without any legal friction along the way."

Link:

https://apievangelist.com/2017/11/12/locking-up-any-taxonomy-is-short-sighted-in-todays-online-environment/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.metadata oa.formats oa.comment

Date tagged:

11/13/2017, 12:24

Date published:

11/13/2017, 07:23