[OpenGLAM] irony of CC-BY without PIs

Jonas Öberg jonas at shuttleworthfoundation.org
Tue Jan 28 17:57:59 UTC 2014


Hi Catherine!

I'm glad to see talks about discovering the context of work -- that's
very much in line with my own thoughts and interests.

Regarding persistent identifiers, I'd also like to add that it's
important to be able to connect those identifiers with the metadata
about the work itself such that it can be machine readable (and
findable). The tools that we're building at Commons Machinery make use
of such links to enable automatic attribution, use notifications, etc.
We've started to document (albeit quite technically I admit) how we
find metadata, how we make use of it, and create attribution links
from it. https://github.com/commonsmachinery/credit-metadata-best-practices

I'd love to bring this to a point where it can also function as a
guide to metadata markup for GLAMs. I imagine that a lot of times,
information such as persistent identifiers of work or
(machine-readable) license information is missing simply because
there's no clear instructions for what to do.

Sincerely,
Jonas


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Catherine Styles <cath.styles at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 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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