[open-bibliography] A 4 star classification-scheme for open cultural meta-data

Tue Jun 7 11:38:11 UTC 2011

Karen Coyle wrote:
> The document was created during the LOD-LAM (http://lod-lam.net)  
> meeting in San Francisco last week. I could export it, but it's being  
> discussed and commented on using the Google Docs comments, and that is  
> probably the most interesting part. It is similar to the Open Data  
> done by JISC/RL-UK, but simpler. The four stars are: CC-0, CC-BY,  
> CC-BY-SA and an added version of CC-BY that can take a particular  
> attribution license.

Thanks for the summary.  Mildly concerned that "an added version of
CC-BY" may mean licence proliferation; pretty disappointed that
this is on Google Docs meaning that people who care about service
provider openness are excluded from most of the discussion.

Thanks again,
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