[open-bibliography] (Final?) discussion of the openbiblio principles

Fri Jan 7 15:20:38 UTC 2011

Hello,

2011/1/7 William Waites <ww at eris.okfn.org>:
> As I mentioned the other day in IRC to Rufus, my only comment is that
> the strong anti-copyleft position might not be the best. Public domain
> terms might be appropriate for large institutions, particularly state
> funded ones, but small independently funded organisations that improve
> data should be able to prevent their work from being enclosed by the
> likes of Amazon and still be able to call their data Open.

This seems to go in the same direction as the discussion Rufus
initiated at the last meeting, doesn't it? In the minutes[1] it reads:

"A question to be resolved is: Do we need in the 4th principle (“…it
is STRONGLY recommended that bibliographic data or collections of
bibliographic data, especially where publicly funded, be explicitly
placed in the public domain…”) a ‘STRONGLY’ recommend for public
domain or should we drop the ‘Strongly’ and simply recommend? The
underlying question is whether attribution is rather a problem or a
benefit in the future bibliographic data environment."

You now have posted another "underlying question" to this: Does the
current wording scare of small organisations to open up their data?

I wouldn't mind dropping the "STRONGLY". What do the others think?

Adrian

[1] http://openbiblio.net/2011/01/05/minutes-7th-virtual-meeting-of-the-okfn-openbiblio-group/
> -w
>
> * [2011-01-06 09:26:45 +0100] Adrian Pohl <adrian.pohl at okfn.org> écrit:
>
> ] Hello,
> ]
> ] as decided in the last meeting[1] we want to get the openbiblio
> ] principles towards an agreed upon document until January 11th which is
> ] next Tuesday. I've already made some more changes on the google doc
> ] and added comments to the document to initiate further discussion, see
> ] http://bit.ly/gIfB11
> ]
> ] I'm looking forward to your thoughts and comments.
> ]
> ] Adrian
> ]
> ] [1] http://openbiblio.net/2011/01/05/minutes-7th-virtual-meeting-of-the-okfn-openbiblio-group/
> ]
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