[Aust-NZ] Geoscience Australia goes CC-BY [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

Hi again Gavin,

> 
> And can I therefore assume you're also selecting CC-ND (No 
> Derivatives) to ensure that edits and/or modified data is not 
> redistributed? ;)
> 

No. We're only concerned with our Authoritative data source.

That goes back to your and Brent's comments on 'provinence'. User Beware!


> 
> Adopting CC is the start of a slope that is ultimately going 
> to end up with government agencies having to either provide a 
> process of accepting edits/corrections from citizens, or 
> having citizens maintain their own more accurate derivations 
> of datasets because the official release is not being funded 
> to maintain it to an acceptable level of quality. I think the 
> take-home point here is that funding needs to be made 
> available to agencies to ensure that the owner of a dataset 
> is able to accept end-user corrections. Note that not all 
> datasets need this, but some such as roads, walking tracks 
> etc change frequently and need corrections applied. Those 
> derived sets that are the result of analysis and calculation 
> are far less likely to require end-user correction - although 
> this will depend on the changes in the factual datasets that 
> are act as inputs. But the factual datasets will - we do 
> after all live in dynamic communities, landscapes and 
> infrastructure and we need agencies to reflect changes in 
> these datasets in a timely manner.
> 


You may have missed the proposal that I put to the Victorian Government's 'Parliamentary Inquiry Into Improving Access To Victorian Public Sector Information' on this.

See [1] pp 30-31.

Bruce

[1] http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/edic/inquiries/access_to_PSI/submissions/PSI_Sub_33_Open_Source_Geospatial.pdf