[open-archaeology] Open licenses for archaeological data matter: the case of AustArch

[Michael Charno]

On 31/07/14 18:19, Anthony Beck wrote:
> Assuming the sem-web stuff happens then licences that stop/inhibit the 
> computer-based aggregation, inference and product derivation are 
> problematic.

I'll quickly respond to this as its been brought up twice in this thread 
and unaddressed thus far.  Our LOD has always been published as CC0, 
which as you imply, is a prerequisite for this area.  We haven't badged 
the HTML serializations of our LOD with CC0 logos, but i will do that 
today to make it completely unambiguous.  We fully understand how this 
stuff works, and have never hid any of our LOD serializations behind a 
T&C challenge that would indicate intentions otherwise.

Its also worth pointing out that our LOD and archive data are two very 
different things, which is why we are comfortable licensing it 
differently.  Most of our LOD is actually metadata (about our archives), 
which has always been fully Open (as you know we have OAI-PMH targets 
which publish archive, journal, Grey Lit, Image Bank and OASIS metadata 
in around 10 different metadata schemas). Ultimately our LOD sits 
outside of our conceptual "OAIS Archive", which enables us to publish 
that data under a different license but doesn't afford it the processes 
and management associated with our OAIS implementation.

Cheers,
michael