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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

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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

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book learning okfn open text

shared by Mike Chelen on 29 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Rick_GTP Rick Watson, Global Text Project and University of Georgia
  • ameeg Amee Godwin, ISKME, OER Commons, Calif
  • jwyg jwyg = Jonathan Gray, The Open Knowledge Foundation + Open Text Book
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  • karen_at_k12opened Karen Fasimpaur from K12 Opened and the Kids Open Dictionary (http://dictionary.k12opened.com)
  • JudyBaker Judy Baker, Director of Community College Open Textbook and Dean of Foothill Global Access, Foothill College, California
  • jonathan_Connexions Jonathan Emmons, community development specialist for the Connexions Project
  • Don Don McCubbrey, University of Denver, Co-Project leader if Global Text (http://globaltext.org) with Rick Watson
  • emerika Brad Emerson K12 Opened.com and the Kids Open Dictionary
  • JudyBaker Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (http://cccoer.wordpress.org)
  • mikechelen Mike Chelen, OpenSci.Info
  • Andrew Andrew Whitworth, English Wikibooks
  • sub Sub, (french) admin and main contributor to http://fr.wikibooks.org/
  • mib_9pubxh Sanford Forte, Senior Research and Project Consultant, Community College Open Textbook Project; and, Founder/Director, California open Source Textbook Project
  • mpal Yes, this is Murugan
  • mpal from CK-12 Foundation
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