[open-science] Research Data Curation Bibliography Version 7

Wed Jan 25 19:31:17 UTC 2017

To underscore the problem with this approach, please see the Trump Twitter Archive:
http://trumptwitterarchive.com/#/

Look at the tweets. Note the lack of open licensing. Now, picture the Trump Team hearing from OA advocates pushing for CC-BY licensing that we must make everyone who receives public funding use open licensing, because if they do not we may not make copies of even insubstantial amounts of the work.

If this argument is legally correct, does Trump not have every right to demand this archive be taken down if he does not like it? If you agree with me that this is a problem, please abandon this approach to open license pressure tactics.

best,

Heather Morrison

On 2017-01-25, at 2:19 PM, Heather Morrison <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>
 wrote:

> It is good to see an update of the Digital Curation Bibliography, Charles.
> 
> It appears to me that you are attempting to make a case for open licensing that is more problematic than helpful. That is, it looks like you are making a case that authors must make their work CC-BY or CC-0 or you cannot publish the abstract. One problem with this is that this is not a licensing issue, but rather your choice. 
> 
> A problem with this approach to advocacy is that this approach could be used to establish a precedent that small portions of works that are not openly licensed may not be copied. This has huge implications, for scholarship and journalism.
> 
> We need strong fair use / fair dealing everywhere, so that we can copy portions not only of openly licensed works, but also works that are clearly All Rights Reserved, and even sometimes works that have been leaked and the original copyright holders objects to making public at all.
> 
> For example, if Donald Trump has said something in a speech (whether today or in the past) should we be able to quote it for purposes of critique, regardless of whether he would like us to do so or not, or should we refrain from quoting unless the speech was released under an open license? If you do not wish to see this scenario I recommend abandoning this "use CC-BY or CC-0 or I won't quote you" argument for open licensing. 
> 
> I further argue that this "won't quote unless open licensed" is actually a form of closure of scholarship. 
> 
> best,
> 
> Heather Morrison
> 
> On 2017-01-25, at 1:22 PM, Digital Scholarship <digitalscholarshippress at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Digital Scholarship has released Version 7 of the Research
>> Data Curation Bibliography. This selective bibliography
>> includes over 620 English-language articles, books, and
>> technical reports that are useful in understanding the
>> curation of digital research data in academic and other
>> research institutions.
>> 
>> http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm
>> 
>> The Research Data Curation Bibliography covers topics such
>> as research data creation, acquisition, metadata,
>> provenance, repositories, management, policies, support
>> services, funding agency requirements, peer review,
>> publication, citation, sharing, reuse, and preservation.
>> 
>> Most sources have been published from January 2009 through
>> December 2016; however, a limited number of earlier key
>> sources are also included. The bibliography includes links
>> to freely available versions of included works. If such
>> versions are unavailable, links to the publishers'
>> descriptions are provided.
>> 
>> Abstracts are included in this bibliography if a work is
>> under a Creative Commons Attribution License (BY and
>> national/international variations), a Creative Commons
>> public domain dedication (CC0), or a Creative Commons Public
>> Domain Mark and this is clearly indicated in the work.
>> 
>> The Research Data Curation Bibliography is under a Creative
>> Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
>> -- 
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Charles
>> 
>> Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
>> Publisher, Digital Scholarship
>> http://digital-scholarship.org/cwbprofile.htm
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