[sc-announce] "WisconsinView dedicates 6+ terabytes of data to the public domain" - Science Commons blog
Kaitlin Thaney
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
Wed Jul 1 19:15:09 EDT 2009
WisconsinView dedicates 6+ terabytes of data to the public domain
July 1st, 2009<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/07/01/wisconsinview-public-domain/>by
Kaitlin Thaney
As of July 1, WisconsinView <http://www.wisconsinview.org/>, an effort to
make available a variety of types of imagery for the state of Wisconsin,
will make their data available in the public domain via
CC0<http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>.
This news was brought to us by Puneet
Kishor<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/07/01/wisconsinview-public-domain/about/whoweare/kishor/>,
a Science Commons fellow.
>From the press release:
“Since 2004, WisconsinView has made aerial photography and satellite
imagery of Wisconsin available to the public for free over the web. As part
of the AmericaView consortium, WisconsinView supports access and use of
these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and
research. Starting June 30, 2009, WisconsinView is making available all of
its more than 6 Terabytes of imagery data under the new CC0 Protocol
provided by Creative Commons. The CC0 (pronounced CC-Zero) Protocol waives
any rights in a dataset, ensuring that all of the dataset is available to
anyone without encumbrance of any kind. More information on CC0 is available
at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0, and the reasoning behind the
protocol is described at
http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/07/01/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/>.
Further questions about WisconsinView may be directed to Dr. Sam Batzli,
Director, WisconsinView at sabatzli at wisc.edu or Puneet Kishor, Science
Commons Fellow (Geospatial Data) at punkish at creativecommons.org.”
We applaud Batzli and Kishor for their ongoing work in making information
available to the public and dedicating such a rich resource to the public
domain.
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Kaitlin Thaney
Program Manager
Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
http://creativecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
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