[open-bibliography] Orphan data

Mon Mar 5 14:50:20 UTC 2012

On 3/5/12 3:14 AM, Adrian Pohl wrote:
> What about using the Public Domain Mark[1]? If the organizations and
> individuals involved in creating and hosting the dataset are known and
> none of them claims copyright over the datayou are basically saying:
> "This already IS public domain because no one has right sover this
> data and thus no one can license it." That's what the PD mark is
> intended to be used for.

I think the answer is that the rights are unknown or undeclared. PD 
obviously is a declaration. To designate something as PD one has to be 
the owner. But I will suggest that.

>
> Or have I misunderstood something? This might be a topic foprm
> tomorrow's virtual meeting. Will you attend it, Karen?

Sorry, I'll be in the air :-).
kc

>
> Adrian
>
> [1] http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
>
> On 2 March 2012 02:16, Karen Coyle<kcoyle at kcoyle.net>  wrote:
>> I have run into a case of "orphan data" that, in part, arises from a desire
>> to be "open." In this case, an organization hosts -- but does not create --
>> bibliographic data in a large database. There are no stated "owners" of any
>> of the bibliographic records; they are being shared by a community with no
>> one claiming any rights.
>>
>> When asked to let someone use the data under PDDL (or even CC0), the hosting
>> organization declined because they consider themselves to have no rights to
>> grant a license.
>>
>> Thus, openness has led to an "orphan data" problem. Potential users cannot
>> obtain a license or even a statement of public domain because there is no
>> declared owner.
>>
>> Any ideas for a solution?
>>
>> kc
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