more on the NYT story about open data this week: "In fact, the only thing that should be surprising about this is the fact that anyone is surprised by it, or that anyone continues to insist patents are necessary in this kind of research. We've already seen how large groups of scientists sharing data leads to faster advancement in those fields, and how data that is locked up leads to slower advancement in research."
a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN is the place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own.
The D-Net Software Kit is an Open Source service-oriented solution for the construction of customized Data Infrastructures. Data Infrastructures address the need increasingly manifested by research communities to operate over the integration of content collected from several information sources (such as institutional repositories endowed with OAI-PMH interfaces, or archives of research data).
A blog to communicate about the Data Commons Project and keep track of all the cool things we are doing to create the Data Commons Cooperative, a hybrid worker and consumer owned cooperative providing data services to members of the rooted economy.
DataCatalogs.org aims to be the most comprehensive list of open data catalogs in the world. It is curated by a group of leading open data experts from around the world - including representatives from local, regional and national governments, international organisations such as the World Bank, and numerous NGOs. see also The Data Hub, CKAN, and the Open Knowledge Foundation.
listings emphasize the connection between data posted by governments and public institutions and the interfaces people are building to explore that data.
This a guide to licensing data aimed particularly at those who want to make their data open. The first section deals with the practical question of how to license your data. The second section discusses what kinds of rights (intellectual property or other) exist in data in various jurisdictions.