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15 May 09

Science in the open » A breakthrough on data licensing for public science?

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Peter Murray-Rust and others at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at Cambridge
conversation we had over lunch with Peter, Jim Downing, Nico Adams, Nick Day and Rufus Pollock
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- appropriate way to license published scientific data
- value of share-alike or copyleft provisions of GPL and similar licenses
- spreading the message and use of Open Content
- prevent “freeloaders” from being able to use Open material and not contribute back to the open community
- presumption in this view is that a license is a good, or at least acceptable, way of achieving both these goals
- allow people the freedom to address their concerns through copyleft approaches
- Rufus
- concerned more centrally with enabling re-use and re-purposing of data as far as is possible
- don’t tend to be concerned about freeloading
- worried by the potential for licensing to make it harder to re-use and re-mix disparate sets of data and content into new digital objects
- “license”, will have scientists running screaming in the opposite direction
- we focused on what we could agree on
- common position statement
- area of best practice for the publication of data that arises from public science
- there is a window of opportunity to influence funder positions
- data sharing policies
- “following best practice”
- providing clear guidance and tools
- make it easy for researchers to deliver on their obligations
- if it is widely accepted by their research communities
- “best practice is X”
- enable re-use and re-purposing of that data
- share-alike approaches as a community expectation
- Explicit statements of the status of data are required and we need effective technical and legal infrastructure to make this easy for researchers.
- “Where a decision has been taken to publish data deriving from public science research, best practice to enable the re-use and re-purposing of that data, is to place it explicitly in the public domain via {one of a small set of protocols e.g. cc0 or PDDL}.”
- focuses purely on what should be done once a decision to publish has been made
- data generated by public science
- describing this as best practice it also allows deviations that may, for whatever reason, be justified by specific people in specific circumstances

11 Feb 09

The Control Fallacy: Why OA Out-Innovates the Alternative : Nature Precedings

This article examines the relationship between Open Access to the scholarly literature and innovation. It traces the ideas of “end to end” network principles in the Internet and the World Wide Web and applies them to the scholarly biomedical literature. And the article argues for the importance of relieving not just price barriers but permission barriers.

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Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Data: Openness and Licensing

Why bother about openness and licensing for data? After all they don’t matter in themselves: what we really care about are things like the progress of human knowledge or the freedom to understand and share.

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Why bother about openness and licensing for data
It’s crucial because open data is so much easier to break-up and recombine, to use and reuse.
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- want people to have incentives to make their data open and for open data to be easily usable and reusable
- good definition of openness acts as a standard that ensures different open datasets are ‘interoperable’
- Licensing is important because it reduces uncertainty. Without a license you don’t know where you, as a user, stand: when are you allowed to use this data? Are you allowed to give to others? To distribute your own changes, etc?
- licensing and definitions are important even though they are only a small part of the overall picture
- If we get them wrong they will keep on getting in the way of everything else.
- Everyone agrees that requiring attribution is OK
  - My opinion is that there should be no requirements, including attribution, and that standards should be community-based instead of legal. - on 2009-02-11
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- Even if a basic license is used it can be argued that any ‘requirements’ for attribution or share-alike should not be in a license but in ‘community norms’.
  - Licenses and community norms are not exclusive. It's recommended to adopt a Public Domain license, and encourage attribution through community standards. - on 2009-02-11
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- A license is likely to elicit at least as much, and almost certainly more, conformity with its provisions than community norms.
  - Ease of access and should be the goal, not conformity. - on 2009-02-11
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- (even to a user it is easy to comply with the open license)
  - It is important to specifically publish using a Public Domain dedication. - on 2009-02-11
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08 Dec 08

Directory of open access journals

Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3768 journals in the directory. Currently 1327 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 240018 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

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09 Oct 08

arXiv.org help - arXiv License Information

certify that the work is available under either the Creative Commons Attribution license, or the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license

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certify that the work is available under either the
Creative Commons Attribution
license, or the Creative
Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license

08 Oct 08

Gutenberg:The Project Gutenberg License - Gutenberg

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project gutenberg license law

04 Oct 08

DokuWiki [splitbrain.org]

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wiki open source cms license php

29 Sep 08

olai/opentextbook - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki

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open text book learning education license

26 Sep 08

Syndication - CC Wiki

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19 Sep 08

Press Kit - Creative Commons

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16 Sep 08

TED | Help

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TED | About TED

This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.

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