[sc-announce] "Talis offers free data hosting for open data" - Science Commons blog

Kaitlin Thaney kaitlin at creativecommons.org
Thu Apr 9 18:57:37 EDT 2009


Talis offers free data hosting for open data

April 9th, 2009<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/04/09/talis-connected-commons/>by
Kaitlin Thaney

The folks over at Talis <http://www.talis.com/> recently
announced<http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2009/03/announcing-the-talis-connected-commons.php>a
new free data-hosting service for open data, the “Talis
Connected Commons” <http://blogs.talis.com/n2/cc>.

The service provides free data hosting up to 50 million RDF triples and 10Gb
of content for “qualifying” data sets, as specified by their Web
site<http://blogs.talis.com/n2/cc>.
To qualify for entry, the data and content must be made available to the
public domain either under
CC0<http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>- a waiver we
recently released <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13304> that
allows for one to waive all rights over their work, or the Open Data Commons
Public Domain Dedication and
License<http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/>
.

I further bore into the details regarding hosting public domain data,
inquiring whether or not data naturally in the public domain and not marked
by CC0 or the PDDL would be allowed in the system. Talis’ Leigh Dodds, after
a few email exchanges, expressed their desire to have the data clearly
marked via CC0 or PDDL, but assured me that data already in the commons —
for example, the human genome <http://www.genome.gov/12514471> — would not
be excluded.

Confusion clarified.

We commend Talis for using CC0 as a means to clearly mark and identify
public domain data, and look forward to see what fruit this tree will bring
for the open data / linked data communities.

For more information, visit their Web site <http://blogs.talis.com/n2/cc>and
FAQ <http://blogs.talis.com/n2/cc-faq>.


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Kaitlin Thaney
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http://sciencecommons.org
http://creativecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
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