Advice for Open Sourcing Scraped Data

[Murray Cox]

Happy New Year everyone!

I'm working on a project where I've scraped data from a company's web-site that I think will be in the civic interest to make available widely. I'm also working on some visualisation tools that will provide an initial way of looking at the data (stay tuned for later in January).

Can anyone offer advice on the following:-

- What would be the best Open Source license for the data, and do I need one?

- I was just going to post the data in a GitHub repository with a data dictionary, and link to the repository. Is there a better place for it?

- Are there any legal disclaimers that I should include with the data, to protect myself and any users of the data? 

I'm not looking for legal advice (yet!), but note, the scraped data is all publicly available on the site, without logging in, however, there may be the possibility that the company that runs the site might point to the Terms of Use and try to restrict access to the data. I am not seeking financial or competitive benefit from the data, and am operating under a "Fair Use" assumption.

Thank you in advance...

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[Noel Hidalgo]

Responses:

1. CC-0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

2. For now, GitHub. We're working on a community run data portal and that should be up by the end of Jan.

3. The CC-0 takes are of that for you.

What data are you working on?

n

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[Murray Cox]

Hi Noel! (I'm posting against my original thread because I wasn't subscribed properly to the group; fixed now).

Thanks for the links to the creative commons license and advice about Github (can anyone else add to this?).

Re the data set I'm working - I spoke to you about it a few weeks ago at a BetaNYC event :-). I'd prefer not to discuss it publicly yet so that I can ensure the data gets released with the relevant context (but happy to talk about it privately if you are interested).

On Friday, January 2, 2015 3:10:41 PM UTC-5, Noel Hidalgo wrote:

Responses:

1. CC-0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

2. For now, GitHub. We're working on a community run data portal and that should be up by the end of Jan.

3. The CC-0 takes are of that for you.

What data are you working on?

n

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Murray Cox <mur...@murraycox.com> wrote: