[open-archaeology] Open Data from Oxford Archaeology

Mon Mar 22 16:56:23 UTC 2010

Great work! This was something close to my heart when I was at OA and I'm
really glad to see you bringing it to reality :-)

Best

Leif

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> > Stefano Costa
> >
> > Coordinator, Working Group on Open Data in Archaeology
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