Open Genealogy Alliance

Project researching effects of copyright of genealogical data

For other uses, see Oga (disambiguation).

Open Genealogy Alliance

Type of site

| Family history
Available in| English
Owner| Open Rights Group
URL| www.opengenalliance.org
Commercial| No
Current status| Active

The Open Genealogy Alliance (OGA) is a UK-based project launched by three partners: the Open Rights Group, Open Knowledge Foundation and FreeBMD. OGA is currently researching the genealogy sector and the copyright status of digitized public domain documents. The project was announced on 2 March 2011 by the Open Rights Group.[1][2]

## See also

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* Digitization of books
* Digitizing
* Electronic Frontier Foundation
* Open Rights Group
* Public domain image resources

## References

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1. ^ "Open Rights Group - Launching the Open Genealogy Alliance".
2. ^ Your Family History magazine, Issue 16 (July 2011) p.74

## External links

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* Open Genealogy Alliance website
* Open Rights Group website