[open-archaeology] Open Data from Oxford Archaeology

Mon Mar 22 16:13:39 UTC 2010

Hi Steko,

I didn't receive your original reply to Chris' message via email
(although I did see it later), but it did prompt us to think a bit
more about licensing. Many of the documents already uploaded to the
site have been done so under a Creative Commons license, although it
seems that this isn't displayed on the Library. I have since changed
the footer on each page to say CC-BY-SA, hopefully making our Openess
a little more explicit.

Cheers, Joseph

On 22 March 2010 16:08, Stefano Costa <stefano.costa at okfn.org> wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 22/03/2010 alle 15.14 +0000, Joseph Reeves ha scritto:
>> Dear all,
>
> Hi Joseph,
> thanks for sharing this great initiative.
>
>> I'd like to invite you to a sneak preview of the Oxford Archaeology
>> Library site we've been working on here:
>>
>> http://library.thehumanjourney.net/
>
>
> I'd like to report a statement from Chris Puttick in reply to my
> specific question about licensing of contents:
>
>> > One important question: I see no explicit license for the documents
>> that> are available for download.
>> >
>> > While I hope the license can be open (CC-BY or CC-BY-SA for example
>> -
>> > http://opendefinition.org/ ), I would strongly recommend to state it
>> > explicitly, even if it is "all rights reserved" or anything else.
>> >
>> > An open license would allow for all kinds of derivative works, and I
>> see> a huge potential for OA Library in this direction.
>>
>> Fair point, never occurred to us because we're so deep into the open
>> archaeology thing; I guess we were assuming CC-BY-SA, proper
>> viral-like :)
>
> This sounds like one of the many good things about OA Library, and the
> most relevant for the discussion in this working group.
>
> Ciao,
> steko
>
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> Stefano Costa
>
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