[open-archaeology] Open Data from Oxford Archaeology

Mon Mar 22 17:16:02 UTC 2010

Hi Joseph,

Great work.

Just two points I noticed when looking at some of the documents.

While you have added the CC-BY-SA to the web-page, the documents itself (at
least the few I had a look at) don't contain it. They were even saying that
you need written authorisation by OA to use them.
Shouldn't the CC-BY-SA be added to the documents as well? Otherwise you
wouldn't know they were under CC-BY-SA, once the documents are taken from
the web-site and passed on.

One document I had a look at contained Ordnance Survey Maps, with an
explicit statement about their copyright.
Don't you have to remove these and similar pictures, to make the document
really free and open?

Bye
Michael

On 22 March 2010 16:13, 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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