[od-discuss] Thoughts about the Machine Readable clause

Fri Aug 14 12:34:59 UTC 2015

I think we can definitely have a post or similar discussing the subtleties
here but I'd recommend at this point keeping the clause simple and now that
we have a recommended clause putting this to everyone and trying to close
out.

For the next version we could consider reintroducing "annotations" as per
the Open Source Definition (and earlier versions of the definition).

Rufus

On 13 August 2015 at 17:23, Aaron Wolf <wolftune at riseup.net> wrote:

> From the draft after our call:
>
> 1.3 (or 1.4 depending on order) Machine Readable:
>
> "The work must be provided in a form readily processable by a computer
> and where the individual elements of the work can be easily accessed and
> modified."
>
> My thought: I feel uncomfortable with having zero written guidance about
> the interpretation of “individual elements”. What if we removed
> “individual”? It seems excessive and redundant anyway…
>
> --
>
> From the preamble: "The term work will be used to denote the item or
> piece of knowledge being transferred."
>
> I want something that clarifies the form of the work. Unfortunately, I
> can't think of how to describe this well. Yes, I can write a blog post
> on the topic, but to share my thoughts:
>
> For example, for a sound recording recording, the "work" is the audio
> recording itself surely. So, we don't say that the audio is non-open
> just because they didn't provide the MIDI data or the text-files with
> lyrics. But surely, the lyrics themselves cannot be restricted or that
> would impede the openness of the audio even.
>
> But a MIDI file is "open MIDI" while an Opus format audio output of the
> performance of the MIDI data would be "open audio".
>
> Similarly, an "open journal article" could be based on non-open data.
>
> Perhaps the answer is to write the blog post and actually link to the
> blog post from the OD preamble?
>
> --
> Aaron Wolf
> co-founder, Snowdrift.coop
> music teacher, wolftune.com
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