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Mike Chelen

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Data: Openness and Licen... - 0 views

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okfn blog open data science license

shared by Mike Chelen on 11 Feb 09 - Cached
  • 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.
  • want people to have incentives to make their data open and for open data to be easily usable and reusable
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  • 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
    • Mike Chelen
      Mike Chelen on 11 Feb 09
       
      My opinion is that there should be no requirements, including attribution, and that standards should be community-based instead of legal.
  • 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’.
    • Mike Chelen
      Mike Chelen on 11 Feb 09
       
      Licenses and community norms are not exclusive. It's recommended to adopt a Public Domain license, and encourage attribution through community standards.
  • A license is likely to elicit at least as much, and almost certainly more, conformity with its provisions than community norms.
    • Mike Chelen
      Mike Chelen on 11 Feb 09
       
      Ease of access and should be the goal, not conformity.
  • (even to a user it is easy to comply with the open license)
    • Mike Chelen
      Mike Chelen on 11 Feb 09
       
      It is important to specifically publish using a Public Domain dedication.
  • Mike Chelen on 11 Feb 09
     
    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.
Mike Chelen

Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data - 0 views

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science commons open access data public domain

shared by Mike Chelen on 07 Sep 08 - Cached
  • information for the Internet community
  • distributing data or databases
  • “open” and “open access”
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  • requirements for gaining and using the Science Commons Open Access Data Mark and metadata
  • interoperability of scientific data
  • terms and conditions around data make integration difficult to legally perform
  • single license
  • data with this license can be integrated with any other data under this license
  • too many databases under too many terms already
  • unlikely that any one license or suite of licenses will have the correct mix of terms
  • principles for open access data and a protocol for implementing those principles
  • Open Access Data Mark and metadata
  • databases and data
  • the foundation to legally integrate a database or data product
  • another database or data product
  • no mechanisms to manage transfer or negotiations of rights unrelated to integration
  • submitted to Science Commons for certification as a conforming implementation
  • Open Access Data trademarks (icons and phrases) and metadata on databases
  • protocol must promote legal predictability and certainty
  • easy to use and understand
  • lowest possible transaction costs on users
  • Science Commons’ experience in distributing a database licensing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file
  • hard to apply the distinction between what is copyrightable and what is not copyrightable
  • lack of simplicity restricts usage
  • reducing or eliminating the need to make the distinction between copyrightable and non-copyrightable elements
  • satisfy the norms and expectations of the disciplines providing the database
  • norms for citation will differ
  • norms must be attached
  • Converge on the public domain by waiving all rights based on intellectual property
  • reconstruction of the public domain
  • scientific norms to express the wishes of the data provider
  • public domain
  • waiving the relevant rights on data and asserting that the provider makes no claims on the data
  • Requesting behavior, such as citation, through norms rather than as a legal requirement based on copyright or contracts, allows for different scientific disciplines to develop different norms for citation.
  • waive all rights necessary for data extraction and re-use
  • copyright
  • sui generis database rights
  • claims of unfair competition
  • implied contracts
  • and other legal rights
  • any obligations on the user of the data or database such as “copyleft” or “share alike”, or even the legal requirement to provide attribution
  • non-legally binding set of citation norms
  • waiving other statutory or intellectual property rights
  • there are other rights, in addition to copyright, that may apply
  • uncopyrightable databases may be protected in some countries
  • sui generis rights apply in the European Union
  • waivers of sui generis and other legal grounds for database protection
  • no contractual controls
  • using contract, rather than intellectual property or statutory rights, to apply terms to databases
  • affirmatively declare that contractual constraints do not apply to the database
  • interoperation with databases and data not available under the Science Commons Open Access Data Protocol through metadata
  • data that is not or cannot be made available under this protocol
  • owner provides metadata (as data) under this protocol so that the existence of the non-open access data is discoverable
  • digital identifiers and metadata describing non-open access data
  • “Licensing” a database typically means that the “copyrightable elements” of a database are made available under a copyright license
  • Database FAQ, in its first iteration, recommended this method
  • recommendation is now withdrawn
  • copyright begins in and ends in many databases
  • database divided into copyrightable and non copyrightable elements
  • user tends to assume that all is under copyright or none is under copyright
  • share-alike license on the copyrightable elements may be falsely assumed to operate on the factual contents of a database
  • copyright in situations where it is not necessary
  • query across tens of thousands of data records across the web might return a result which itself populates a new database
  • selective waiving of intellectual property rights fail to provide a high degree of legal certainty and ease of use
  • problem of false expectations
  • apply a “copyleft” term to the copyrightable elements of a database, in hopes that those elements result in additional open access database elements coming online
  • uncopyrightable factual content
  • republish those contents without observing the copyleft or share-alike terms
  • cascading attribution if attribution is required as part of a license approach
  • Would a scientist need to attribute 40,000 data depositors in the event of a query across 40,000 data sets?
  • conflict with accepted norms in some disciplines
  • imposes a significant transaction cost
Mike Chelen

Science in the open » A breakthrough on data licensing for public science? - 0 views

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open public science data license

shared by Mike Chelen on 15 May 09 - Cached
  • 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
  • appropriate way to license published scientific data
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  • 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
  • make it easy for researchers to deliver on their obligations
  • 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”
  • don’t tend to be concerned about freeloading
  • providing clear guidance and tools
  • 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
Mike Chelen

TED | About TED - 0 views

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commons creative license talks ted

shared by Mike Chelen on 16 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Mike Chelen on 16 Sep 08
     
    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.
Mike Chelen

Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike Legal Code - 0 views

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shared by Mike Chelen on 22 May 09 - Cached
  • must include a copy of, or the Uniform Resource Identifier for, this License with every copy
  • Derivative Work
  • the terms of this License
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  • distribute
  • may not exercise
  • rights granted to You in Section 3 above
  • primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation
  • primarily
  • exchange of the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation
  • provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with the exchange of copyrighted works
  • name of the Original Author
  • keep intact all copyright notices for the Work
  • "Attribution Parties"
Mike Chelen

OPENCV \ library - 0 views

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opencv computer vision procesing open source

shared by Mike Chelen on 02 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Mike Chelen on 02 Jan 09
     
    OpenCV is an open source computer vision library originally developed by Intel. It is free for commercial and research use under a BSD license. The library is cross-platform, and runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It focuses mainly towards real-time image processing, as such, if it finds Intel's Integrated Performance Primitives on the system, it will use these commercial optimized routines to accelerate itself. This implementation is not a complete port of OpenCV. Currently, this library supports : * real-time capture * video file import * basic image treatment (brightness, contrast, threshold, …) * object detection (face, body, …) * blob detection Future versions will include more advanced functions such as motion analysis, object and color tracking, multiple OpenCV object instances … For more information about OpenCV visit the Open Source Computer Vision Library Intel webpage, the OpenCV Library Wiki, and the OpenCV Reference Manual (pdf).
Mike Chelen

PS3Cluster Guide: By The Cluster Workshop - 0 views

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ps3 cluster mpi distribute compute ps3cluster guide

shared by Mike Chelen on 27 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Mike Chelen on 27 Dec 08
     
    Our community guide allows you to set up your own MPI (Message Passing Interface) based supercomputer cluster with the Playstation 3. This guide was co-written by Gaurav Khanna, based on his previous work on the Gravity Grid and is a current run-time environment for the research of co-author (Chris Poulin), based on his current work in distributed pattern recognition. As such, we currently utilize the Fedora Core for this infrastructure and illustrate a "how-to" below. NOTE: We focus on the Fedora 8 distribution, due to prevalence of Fedora and its Cell SDK (3.0) compatibility. Finally, this content should be considered open source, and here is the license.
Mike Chelen

Main Page - Open Bioinformatics Foundation - 0 views

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open biology informatics

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  • Mike Chelen on 22 Sep 08
     
    The Open Bioinformatics Foundation or O|B|F is a non profit, volunteer run organization focused on supporting open source programming in bioinformatics. The foundation grew out of the volunteer projects BioPerl, BioJava and BioPython and was formally incorporated in order to handle our modest requirements of hardware ownership, domain name management and funding for conferences and workshops.The Foundation does not participate directly in the development or structure of the open source work, but as the members of the foundation are drawn from the member projects, there is clear commonality of direction and purpose. Occasionally the O|B|F directors may make announcements about our direction or purpose (a recent one was on the licensing of academic software) when the board feels there is a need to clarify matters, but in general we prefer to remain simply the administrative support organization for our member projects. Our main activities are: * Underwriting and supporting the BOSC conferences * Organizing and supporting developer-centric "hackathon" events * Managing our servers, colocation facilities, bank account & other assets We are incorporated in the state of Delaware, USA as a not-for-profit company.
Mike Chelen

Eggheads.org - Main Index - 0 views

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irc bot

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  • Mike Chelen on 17 Dec 08
     
    Eggdrop is the world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use, and is freely distributable under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Eggdrop was originally developed by Robey Pointer; however, he no longer works on Eggdrop so please do not contact him for help solving a problem or bug. Some features of Eggdrop: * Designed to run on Linux, *BSD, SunOs, Windows, Mac OS X, etc ... * Extendable with Tcl scripts and/or C modules * Support for the big five IRC networks (Undernet, DALnet, EFnet, IRCnet, and QuakeNet) * The ability to form botnets and share partylines and userfiles between bots Some benefits of Eggdrop: * The oldest IRC bot still in active development (Eggdrop was created in 1993) * Established IRC help channels and web sites dedicated to Eggdrop * Thousands of premade Tcl scripts and C modules * Best of all ... It's FREE!
Mike Chelen

BioMart - 0 views

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  • Mike Chelen on 11 Dec 08
     
    BioMart is a query-oriented data management system developed jointly by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OiCR) and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). The system can be used with any type of data and is particularly suited for providing 'data mining' like searches of complex descriptive data. BioMart comes with an 'out of the box' website that can be installed, configured and customised according to user requirements. Further access is provided by graphical and text based applications or programmatically using web services or API written in Perl and Java. BioMart has built-in support for query optimisation and data federation and in addition can be configured to work as a DAS 1.5 Annotation server. The process of converting a data source into BioMart format is fully automated by the tools included in the package. Currently supported RDBMS platforms are MySQL, Oracle and Postgres. BioMart is completely Open Source, licensed under the LGPL, and freely available to anyone without restrictions.
Mike Chelen

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open access data okfn science commons

shared by Mike Chelen on 01 Mar 09 - Cached
  • the protocol does not discuss any of the possible attractions of allowing such provisions
  • Protocol gives 3 basic reasons for preferring the ‘PD’ approach
  • Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data
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  • I am not really convinced by any of these points that attribution or share-alike provisions should not be included in open data licenses
  • application of obligations based on copyright in situations where it is not necessary
  • non-copyrightable elements extends to the entire database and inadvertently infringe
  • If intellectual property rights are involved
  • requirements carrying a stiff penalty for failure
  • selective waiving of intellectual property rights
  • interpretative problems
Mike Chelen

Directory of open access journals - 0 views

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journals research journal open openaccess science access license

shared by Mike Chelen on 08 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Mike Chelen on 08 Dec 08
     
    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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