Making your data open: How to start
Posted May 18, 2009 
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Comments(1) A nice short guide on how to start making your data open from Open Data Commons. This shows how simple it really is.
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Jo, it is indeed very simple, BUT only if your data is actually yours. And many times this just isn’t the case, unfortunately: what happens when you fill up a database with factual data from many different sources (e.g. from archaeological literature)? And how do you deal with data licensing when lots of people contributed their own bits to a large dataset (like in almost any archaeological excavation)?
We had a workshop about this topic just two weeks ago in Genova (among the others, there was also a guy from Creative Commons). We are doing our best to define best practices and to highlight current problems with data sharing, but I realize that Italy has some peculiar features with regard to cultural heritage laws. I hope to come out with a report about this meeting very soon.