Welcome to NZGOAL
With NZGOAL, the New Zealand Government has adopted the Creative Commons licences. Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand is pleased to be able to bring you this beta site on all things NZGOAL.
Quick guide for agencies
Grab a quick overview of NZGOAL, covering its purpose, scope, how it works, its relationship with data.govt.nz and its status. This guide enables officials to rapidly absorb the essence of NZGOAL.
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Quick guide for users
Those wishing to re-use government material can grab a quick overview of what NZGOAL means for them, including how it can help them, why licensing is important and how they can ask for material to be released.
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Online review and release process
NZGOAL includes a review and release process for agencies to follow when releasing material for re-use, to ensure they address the right questions. Agencies can now undertake the process online.
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Common questions
NZGOAL covers a good deal of legal and technical ground. Here you'll find answers to common questions. If you have a question that has not been answered yet, you can send it in and it'll get to the right people.
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Jul
Creative Commons Kiwi – Understanding Creative Commons through video
The following video by Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand, with support from InternetNZ, is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence. A project of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Produced by Mohawk Media. Without further ado… [vimeo http://vimeo.com/25684782 w=580&h=330]
23
Jun
NZGOAL goes online…
We’re very happy to announce the launch of this NZGOAL site. Its purpose is to provide punchy guides on NZGOAL for both agencies and end users, to answer common questions, to provide updates and news on NZGOAL and, significantly, to enable agencies to undertake the NZGOAL Review and Release Process online. We hope you find [...]
30
Mar
The Christchurch earthquake, NZGOAL and Creative Commons
The government’s need for imagery and data after the recent Christchurch earthquake to help in the various relief efforts and the need for it to be freely available for re-use by individuals and organisations alike has brought the utility of NZGOAL and Creative Commons licensing into sharp focus. In Post-quake imagery of Christchurch carries CC [...]
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