[OpenGLAM] irony of CC-BY without PIs

Mon Jan 27 15:08:50 UTC 2014

Great point, Cath. 

Yes yes yes: good user experience design is a better guarantor that people
will respect the "-BY" part of CC-BY than any license, plea, threat, or
wishful thinking a rights holder can dream up. In addition to good URL
design, ease of citation, clear writing presented in legible font sizes,
good overall findability - - all of these encourage users to cite and link
back to the original source.

(In our prototyping/testing a few years ago we discovered that users
*want* to link back to us, but we often make it very difficult for them to
do so.)

;)

From:  Catherine Styles <cath.styles at gmail.com>
Date:  Sunday, January 26, 2014 8:07 PM
To:  "open-glam at lists.okfn.org" <open-glam at lists.okfn.org>
Subject:  [OpenGLAM] irony of CC-BY without PIs

Chiming in to the attribution debate about Wellcome Images...

I've just selected a great set of 95 images to ingest into a
game of resemblance
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://sembl.net&k=diZKtJPqj4jW
ksRIF4bjkw%3D%3D%0A&r=OrleOIb4%2FRXNkzweNOIBMA%3D%3D%0A&m=EGAo8WZcwAd9RrUXz
jNITEU23vFEjCmTGkRy0FIMh0w%3D%0A&s=0dc8ed7126e0d923b6519f16a204ab623179bae8
ca394e1134b0963d661d8ba1> I'm building. I'm quite happy to attribute
Wellcome as the source; in fact I'm keen to publish a link back to each
item,
so that players can discover as much of the context for each image as
possible. 

Trouble is, Wellcome images don't seem to have any kind of unique
identifier as far as finding them on the web goes. The system seems to
generate URLs based on the lightbox I've created to (temporarily) store
them. Most collections will fall short of the
 exemplary Rijksmuseum, State Library of Victoria, Trove etc, with their
short, guaranteed-persistent identifiers, but really, I'd be happy with a
reasonably predictable and persistent-looking URL for each thing.

I've sent a query about it to Wellcome Images, so hopefully there is a
non-obvious way to do this kind of enhanced (but really, basic!) online
attribution. 

My point here and now is simply that if you want attribution, you should
make it easy  not just to say that this item comes from your collection,
but to direct people to its home within your collection database.
Cath

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