AMEE - an exemplary open service
October 2nd, 2007
The people behind AMEE, the ‘world’s energy meter’ (which we blogged about back in May), have been busy forging ahead into new areas of open service development. As well as ensuring AMEE conforms to the draft Open Service Definition (in short, open data plus open software) they’ve recently published a Memorandum of Understanding with terms and pricing information under a Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike license.
The MOU specifies a broad range of rates - from free to thousands of pounds per month - that vary depending on the size, nature and estimated bandwidth requirements of the client. This is a pioneering example of the compatibility of open standards and commercial viability in web services. The AMEE team has had interest from over 60 different organisations since they launched the platform in June - from Defra to the RSA, from a national energy company to an international investment company. Last week they contracted with Torchbox, their first web agency, and today they announced a partnership with EEDA, the East of England Development Agency.
AMEE’s commitment to “sharing and collaboration” is particularly appropriate in the context of carbon footprinting - where relevant data is held by many different parties. In a screencast the developers succinctly state:
We believe sharing is the key to scaling. That to really, really scale, we need to share as much as we can.
They’ve initiated two threads asking for advice and comments on their licensing and access mechanisms for the AMEE code and data. It would be great if members of the open knowledge community could pitch in with advice!
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April 15th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
[...] As I am sure you all know by now Greenmonk is a fan of Amee, the carbon caculator’s carbon calculator - or “the World’s Energy Meter” as it styles itself. AMEE is a back end service for carbon data, with the data freely available under a CreativeCommons Attribution and Share-Alike license. Credible? Tesco, the world’s second biggest retailer, and DEFRA, the UK’s EPA, are both heavily involved. AMEE an Exemplary Open Service. And being an environmental API as well, its an Exemplary GreenMonk Service. [...]