Science Commons Announcements

[Kaitlin Thaney <kaitlin AT creativecommons.org>]

WisconsinView dedicates 6+ terabytes of data to the public domain

July 1st, 2009 by Kaitlin Thaney

As of July 1, WisconsinView, 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. This news was brought to us by Puneet 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/. 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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http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/07/01/wisconsinview-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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