[open-bibliography] Using IsItOpenData to get information about licensing policies

Mon Mar 7 23:09:15 UTC 2011

Adrian Pohl <adrian.pohl at okfn.org> wrote:

> Jim, you write on the etherpad[1] that you can help with arxiv.org 

Right. I have initiated an exchange with David Ruddy of Cornell, he replied:

>Regarding the use of arXiv OAI metadata, here is our current statement:
http://arxiv.org/help/oa/metadataPolicy

"Metadata for arXiv articles may be reused in non-commercial and commercial systems. Links to download full-text should point back to arXiv.org."  

Does that qualify by OKFN standards?

David continued
"What we are now exploring is whether the license the author agrees to would allow us to attach a CC0 license to the metadata. It's not clear, but if we can, we would like to do that on our end. There are some reasonably strong feelings that arXiv ought to be the entity that puts the CC0 license on the data, not others. Obviously, if we do it, then you can do what you wish with the metadata. We will be talking with our intellectual property officer about this soon. I will be in touch as soon as I get some clarification."

>and Current Index of Statistics. 

I have initiated dicussion with IMS first about a list of about 1000 IMS-related people profiles
which is another dataset on 3lib and people.bibkn.org. I am aiming to get IMS to agree this 
is CC0 and to work with me to maintain and develop it. I do think we should try to address 
dataset maintenence as well as asking for CC0 dumps. When the issue of people profiles is resolved,
I'll continue with discussion of CIS data.

cheers

--Jim
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