Hi Chris,
Not exactly an answer but have you seen the Endangered Languages Archive?
http://elar.soas.ac.uk/
You can see what data is there even if you can't access it directly. However
there doesn't seem to be any completely closed category, only an 'apply to
the owner' category so this might not help with your question.
Regards,
Mhorag
Mhorag Goff
Manchester eResearch Centre
University of Manchester
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Subject: [RESEARCH-DATAMAN] On expressing access constraints in a data
repository of mixed openness
[Apologies for cross-posting.]
I'm looking for some more help. I'm hoping that at the very least the
discipline of writing down my concern will help me understand it better, and
at best you guys might have a solution.
Let's imagine an institutional data repository (which I guess could be a set
of different repositories). By definition, the IDR will have data that have
different degrees of openness. I can distinguish at least these conditions:
a) fully open
b) closed until some condition is met (then to be open)
c) closed unless some condition is met
d) closed indefinitely.
I'm not really sure an IDR would actually want to accept data with condition
(d), but there may be good reasons that escape me at the moment. But however
much one would like all data to be open, there are substantial swags of data
that must be temporarily or partially closed.
Independently of conditions (b) to (d), it is possible that some or all of
the metadata might be open, that is to say the data might be discoverable
even if not open (presumably if you found and wanted to use the data, then
some sort of negotiation would have to take place).
My question is: how could constraints like these sensibly be expressed, in
either a human-readable or (better) machine-readable way?
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