Excellent news. Great signal too!
Kudos,
Lodewijk
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 7:00 AM Eric Luth <eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se> wrote:
Hi all,
We – Wikimedia Sverige – put together a brief translation on Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/19/statistics-sweden-adopts-cc0-license-for-open-data/>,[1]
of an article where we help Statistics Sweden
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_Sweden>, the Swedish government
agency responsible for national statistics, announce that they have marked
all their open data with CC0.
This means of course that their open data can be imported to Wikidata.
They are responsible for data on, among other things, population,
demographics, economics, politics, education, geography, etc. We have just
started looking together with them on what to prioritize for Wikidata. One
area where we are looking into possibilities for collaboration is around
data on the global goals, as Statistics Sweden is responsible for most of
this data. It will be interesting to explore how to, where possible, model
such data on Wikidata.
We will also use this piece of news to urge more government agencies in
Sweden to adopt CC0. Perhaps this can also encourage conversations with
statistical agencies in other countries?
Best,
*Eric Luth*
Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
Advocacy
Wikimedia Sverige
eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se
+46 (0) 765 55 50 95
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[1]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/19/statistics-sweden-adopts-cc0-license-…
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/19/statistics-sweden-adopts-cc0-license-for-open-data/>
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