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

Tue Jul 29 23:34:26 UTC 2014

I know the lead author and have raised this question with him. He's 
looking into it and notes that the main reason for the choice was that 
the ADS license was recommended by the Internet Archaeology journal. He 
has made the same dataset available elsewhere on the web (with no license).

On 29/7/2014 11:53 PM, Stefano Costa wrote:
> Dear all,
> this list is admittedly not very active, however I'd like to share some
> observations I made about the terms of service of the Archaeology Data
> Service, that started from a discussion on Twitter:
>
> http://archaeology.okfn.org/2014/07/29/open-licenses-for-archaeological-data-matter-the-case-of-austarch/
>
> In short: I think custom licenses such as the ADS terms of use are
> archaeological remains and should be replaced by standard, open
> licenses. As Colleen Morgan succinctly put it:
>
> 	What about the professional archaeologists among us?
> 	They need media [and data] too.
>
> Perhaps we could gather more comments on this and see if there is
> momentum towards a wider action?
>
> All the best, ciao
> Stefano
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