[open-archaeology] Uses of Archaeology Data

Wed Jul 30 12:54:30 UTC 2014

Apologies for hijacking the previous thread- but now, after necrophilia, I would like to also know of any other uses of archaeology data, anywhere, resold or not. So far we have necrophilia and metal detecting. Does anyone else have different examples? It would be interesting to get an idea of what people do with it.
PS- with metal dectectorists are there any concerns of night-hawking?
Doug

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:38:11 +0100
From: michael.charno at york.ac.uk
To: open-archaeology at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [open-archaeology] Open licenses for archaeological data matter: the case of AustArch

      On 30/07/14 12:42, Doug Rocks-Macqueen wrote:

        "We also don't see much advantage over our current license
          to the CC ones, other than a small group of people being able
          to take data we host and re-sell it."

        So I have a general question for everyone- Are there
          individuals or organisations that take archaeology data and
          re-sell it?

    We've had one known instance of our data being bundled up and sold
    on CDs to metal detectorists, which led us to invoke our T&Cs to
    stop them doing that.  We would have been fine with them giving
    those CDs away for free, and would have hoped any new data
    discovered using that data would then be made free & open for
    the community as per our T&Cs.

    The only other time i'm aware we actually chased someone up for
    circumventing our T&Cs was when a necrophilia website was hard
    linking to images of partially decomposed bodies from a medieval
    burial crypt [http://dx.doi.org/10.5284/1000367].  I'm not sure of
    the details as to whether they were also charging access, but it was
    certainly a unique circumstance.

    The only other relevant situation that we are trying to protect is
    in the instance of some professional photographs deposited within
    our archives, such as ERA
    [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/section/gallery.jsf].  The
    professional photographer associated with that project was happy for
    his images to be openly reused as long as someone didn't take them
    and try to re-sell them, which given the quality i would say is a
    valid concern.  Our T&Cs cover this in a way that CC-BY or
    CC-BY-NC don't suitably address in our opinion.  

    You are right though that the likelihood of re-sale of
    archaeological data is very low, but most of our depositors want
    that protection (for right or wrong).  

    Just want to re-emphasise we are not trying to restrict access to
    our data in any way whatsoever, and think our T&Cs alongside the
    deposit license suitably cover our preservation activities while not
    restricting re-use in any significant way.  We want commercial units
    to reuse our data and actively encourage it, and would never
    discourage or stop them from doing so.  As Stefano has pointed out
    we fully appreciate that standardization is the way forward (we bang
    that drum in many other arenas), but we do not currently see a
    standardized license that fully addresses our preservation and
    dissemination activities and concerns.

    michael

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