[Open-access] NISO Recommendations on Open Access Metadata

Tue Jan 7 09:54:15 UTC 2014

I support the need for brief CC metadata. Has anyone from CC been involved?
Else I can take it back to CC to get some simple recommendations (I am on
the Science Advisory Board).

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Daniel Mietchen <
daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I was also hoping for something more tailored towards CC licenses,
> which would make it easier to implement such a system on Wikipedia, as
> sketched out at
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness
> .
>
> d.
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> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:
> > This looks pretty good, and I particularly endorse not using the term
> > "open access" in light of the confusion that has been engineered
> > surrounding that term.
> >
> > But it seems terribly weak not to encode the specific bits of the CC
> > licences, which are nearly always what people want to express and
> > search for, even when an actual CC licence is not used. This
> > specification really needs elements like
> >
> > <attribution_required/>
> > <non_commercial/>
> > <no_derivatives/>
> > <share_alike/>
> >
> > To make it useful.
> >
> > -- Mike.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7 January 2014 09:29, Cameron Neylon <cn at cameronneylon.net> wrote:
> >> Dear All
> >>
> >> I've been involved in a NISO working group looking at standards for
> >> expressing licensing and readership rights in published literature. We
> have
> >> generated a set of recommendations for metadata to be transmitted with
> >> articles and/or made available in appropriate repositories. The
> >> recommendations are now available for a comment:
> >>
> >> OAMI public workroom page (http://www.niso.org/workrooms/oami/)
> >>
> >> Public landing page for the draft and online comments form -
> >> http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=12047
> >>
> >> The recommendations are actually very minimal in form but they
> represent an
> >> agreed view from a very wide range of stakeholders which is valuable.
> Their
> >> adoption could significantly reduce the confusion around re-use rights
> and
> >> reading rights. You will notice that there is a complete avoidance of
> the
> >> term "open access" in the metadata elements. This is quite deliberate
> as a
> >> means of avoiding disagreements over what "counts" as open access while
> >> focussing on making information that is hopefully reasonably objective
> >> available.
> >>
> >> There are also things we decided not to tackle, including the actual
> >> location of copies (this is covered by existing Crossref elements and
> may in
> >> fact be undefined if the metadata is being transmitted with a copy) and
> >> visual identifiers. The fact that we didn't include that in this
> doesn't of
> >> course mean that others couldn't expand this set of elements by local
> >> agreement for their own purposes.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Cameron
> >>
> >>
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