[Oer-community] OER mapping - Let's eat our own dogfood

[Steve Foerster]

Wayne Mackintosh wrote:

> * Open data -- for example, all participants contributing to
>   the mapping exercise should dedicate the data to the public
>   domain.

> * Open licensing of the visualisations - the outputs should
>   be freely available with the 4R permissions.

> * Open APIs and standards -- contributing data sets which
>     adhere to open APIs and open standards to maximise reuse

> * Open source -- Where possible to use visualisation
>   technologies which would not exclude users who can't
>   afford non-free software or choose not to sacrifice
>   their freedoms regarding technology choices

> * Open innovation -- ie where we might promote an open
>   process for the global community to innovate multiple ways
>   to visualise our collective data -- rather than prescribing
>   any particular visualisation.

These are excellent points.  Any output of such an initiative should
adhere to them.

-=Steve=-


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