[open-bibliography] Open Access licences and the OpenDOAR Policy Tool

Thu Apr 1 15:01:30 UTC 2010

Christopher - we provide user support through our tech team for anyone 
trying to implement Creative Commons licensing via web services. Drop me 
a line if you're interested. We've been getting our services honed 
through a variety of users rolling out CC0, including the Dutch 
Government, and I'd be happy to connect you into that group of users as 
well.

jtw

On 3/31/10 4:04 PM, David Shotton wrote:
> Dear Christopher,
>
> Reading your remark "but the license will not appear until they pick
> one.", I am reminded of the very nice OpenDOAR Policies Tool interface
> (http://www.opendoar.org/tools/en/policies.php) provided by Peter
> Millington to permit users to choose access policies for their
> repositories, of which I am sure you are aware.
>
> Last August I wrote to Peter about extending the OpenDOAR Policy Tool
> for assigning RDF metadata according to Science Commons data licences.
> He replied:
>
>     Your proposed adaptation of the /Open/DOAR Policy Tool for licenses
>     for depositing data in open access repositories is interesting
>     and potentially of more general benefit to /Open/DOAR users. I would
>     be happy therefore to provide you with the necessary PHP source code
>     and advice.
>
> Well, this is not something I am able to do myself, nor have manpower to
> devote to at present, but perhaps you or someone in OKF or CC can accept
> Peter's kind offer and make something of this.
>
> David
>
>
> Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>> Maybe I should just teach the controversy then?
>>
>> The decision for our local RDF data will have to be made "above my pay
>> grade". But I'll try to frame it as between public domain, -by and
>> -by-nocommercial
>>
>> I'm about to do the first RDF release of the software and today we are
>> running a training course in EPrints&  Linked data at Southampton. Any
>> suggestions welcome! I'll happily add more suggested licenses to the
>> default release of the software, and a link to the discussion too!
>>
>> Partly, though, the data consuming community will need to nag each admin
>> to add a license as EPrints 3.2.1 will provide RDF out of the box, but
>> the license will not appear until they pick one.
>>
>> Rufus Pollock wrote:
>>
>>> On 25 March 2010 21:41, David Shotton<david.shotton at zoo.ox.ac.uk>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dear Christopher,
>>>>
>>>> There has been considerable discussion, I understand, between OKF and CC
>>>> about data licenses, which may be still ongoing.  CC is now recommending
>>>> their "CCZero" license for datasets, since this avoids the potential problem
>>>> of managing the "attribution stacking" that would result from automatic
>>>> data  aggregation from several sources using conventional attribution
>>>> licenses of any kind.  You  are advised to take these arguments into
>>>> consideration before deciding what to do for EPrints.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I must say here that here at the OKF we really don't think that
>>> attribution-stacking is an issue.
>>>
>>> We are also consider attribution-sharealike type licenses as "open" --
>>> and Open Data Commons, which is an OKF supported project, produces
>>> such licenses. There is a ongoing, lengthy and friendly disagreement
>>> on this score between John Wilbanks and us on this matter (I can point
>>> people to more background on this if they want it :) )
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> For FlyTED (http://www.fly  disagreement on this sc had long disagreements-ted.org), which as you know uses the EPrints
>>>> software platform, we have, after discussions with John Wilbanks, adopted
>>>> CCZero licenses for metadata and thumbnails, and normal CC attribution
>>>> licences for high resolution images.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> We think public domain licenses whether the PDDL or the CCZero to be
>>> great too :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dryad (http://datadryad.org/repo), which is a repository for datasets linked
>>>> to journal articles, has also adopted CCZero licenses.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That's great to hear.
>>>
>>> Rufus
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>
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