Ian Davis
SemanticWeb.com Contributor

Nodalities Blog

We love data at Talis and we want as much of it to be freely reusable as possible. In fact, because we wanted to see even more reusable data we recently launched the Talis Connected Commons offering completely free hosting of public domain data. We believe that dedicating data to the public domain is the best way to ensure that data is universally reusable and remixable. When data is public domain it means that it can be reused automatically without needing to check terms and conditions or track the source of every statement to provide attribution. These kinds of things act as friction to reuse, wasting energy that could be better spent creating inspiring things.

We also firmly believe that, in the future, there will a significant role for other forms of data licensing, including commercial access. We will support those efforts too when the time comes but today the Linked Data web needs more and better data that is freely accessible.

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