Open Data Commons has released an ultra simple guide to making research data Open: Making Your Data Open: A Guide (Beta), [PDF].

Here is an excerpt:

What is Open Data?

Open data is data that anyone is free to use, reuse and redistribute without restriction (except, perhaps the requirements to attribute and sharealike). For precise details see http://opendefinition.org/.

Why Does Openness and Licensing Matter?

[…] open data is  crucial because open data is so much easier to break-up and recombine, to use and reuse. Licensing is important because it removes uncertainty. […]

• So How Can I Make My Data Open?
• How Do I License My Data?

Tags: Licenses, open data, Policy-making, Repositories, Research Data

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