[open-bibliography] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] University of Ghent LibraryCatalogues: Open or Not?

Fri Mar 26 10:00:25 UTC 2010

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
>   

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg

Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/

Web Projects Manager, University of Southampton, 
School of Electronics and Computer Science