Dear All,
Wow! It would seem that this thread, and the diversity of efforts to wrestle with data licensing issues in support of data sharing, exposes a timely need to organize the research data community around this topic. Perhaps a joint CASRAI-RDA-CODATA working group on data licensing could be a home for such discussion and investigation?
The aim of such a group could be to develop a problem statement, identify steps (eg survey current practice in RDM to see where standard licenses are working and where they are not; document the clauses and conditions being added in non standard licenses); and perhaps ultimately recommend a set of electronic rights statements and licensing terms that both humans and machines can interpret without a lawyer. A model for the latter might be the rightsstatements.org project developed in the cultural heritage community for digitized materials in libraries, archives, and museums.
Would a program at RDA in Helsinki this fall be a starting point? Could the established RDA-CODATA Legal Interoperability IG be a structure for organizing the working group with CASRAI?
Appreciatively,
Gail (Co-Chair, RDA-CODATA Legal Interoperability of Research Data Group)
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> On Jun 19, 2019, at 12:07 AM, Andrew McHugh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> This is a really interesting topic, and again, from our perspective at the Urban Big Data Centre, a timely one. I'd be very interested in ways that we can contribute our experiences of licensing access to datasets, either through CASRAI or RDA.
>
> The point around communicating rights and responsibilities to end users is a relevant one for us. We're always looking for ways to distil the essential content of licenses to users in an accessible and meaningful way, while not wishing to lose any of the meaning. Is there a way to simplify a reasonably nuanced licence in a non-lossy fashion? Our legal colleagues might argue that everything in the licence is relevant and essential.
>
> One other high level attribute that we deal with is geographical restrictions (i.e some of our restricted, sub-licensed datasets are available only to UK based researchers).
>
> Interested in following the discussion.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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> From: Research Data Management discussion list <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Valerie McCutcheon <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 19 June 2019 07:17
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Licence classifications
>
> Hello All,
>
> I am just on my way to CASRAI UK meeting and was going to include licence terminology in my suggestions for something that CASRAI could help with so I will mention RDA and perhaps we can connect up.
>
> I have been doing some work with the CREATe project in our law department and Jisc around dataset licencing and it became apparent that some of the terminology was open to interpretation.
>
> Hope to speak soon and please do let us know if CASRAI might provide a useful forum to host a terminology or facilitate discussion.
>
> Happy to catch a chat.
>
> Valerie
>
> Sent from my iPad
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>> On 18 Jun 2019, at 23:15, Graham Parton - UKRI STFC <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi Gail,
>>
>> Thanks for the email – this sounds very timely indeed.
>>
>> I was at the Open Repositories 2019 conference last week in Hamburg and presented there about two generic ‘close-use’ licences that we have come up with following the OGL and NCGL ones from the UK National Archives to help address a gap in the generic licensing landscape. I also touched briefly on two generic ‘restricted’ use licences that we have also come up with as a further extension of those closed ones. Whilst there I was chatting with Dom from JISC and he suggested that these licences would be of interest to this RDA group and urged me to join and attend the next session in Helsinki if I could. I’ve not yet been in the RDA circuit yet, but it’s something that I had earmarked as a possibility, so this might be a good place to start.
>>
>> It would be great to take this forward as a community if there really isn’t anything out there already.
>>
>> Your email does indicate one way to approach this and I do see the merits in it, especially as it is similar to the classification that you see for CC licences as to which licence permits what. However, the question that we’ve been posed with from both our users and internally when figuring out how to advertise our datasets to various stakeholders, is whether a given use-type is permitted under the licence, as opposed to then what the subsequent requirements are under the terms of the licence. E.g. a licence may permit use for teaching and research only (i.e. personal or commercial use is ruled out), but stipulate the requirement to cite the information source appropriately. Both angles are important I think.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> graham
>>
>> From: Research Data Management discussion list <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of "Clement, Gail P." <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: Research Data Management discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Tuesday, 18 June 2019 at 21:03
>> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: Licence classifications
>>
>> Dear Graham and All,
>>
>> Thanks for this timely posting! As your message reflects, this is a topic of intense interest to the research data management community. To that end, the Research Data Alliance/CODATA Group on Legal Interoperability of Research Data is looking at a process of developing a taxonomy of standardized electronic rights statements and reuse restrictions in use with datasets or repositories. We believe this is a critical area to bolster FAIR data sharing by standardizing this terminology for both
>> human and machine clarity.
>>
>> Some of the reuse restrictions we've identified in bespoke dataset licenses include:
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>> - author notification (of reuse)
>> - author approval (of reuse)
>> - author contribution (to new work, including opportunity to join as an author)
>> - privacy and anonymity requirements
>>
>> Additionally, we believe a standard term is needed to indicate to humans and machines that:
>>
>> - no license is available
>> - license granularity (one license is posted for entire data object, or individual licenses are associated with -the compendium's pieces and parts)
>>
>> If you would like to join the group and our discussions (both in person at RDA plenaries and by email and Internet conference during the year), you are most welcome to register (no charge): https://rd-alliance.org/groups/rdacodata-legal-interoperability-ig.html
>>
>> RDA/CODATA Legal Interoperability IG | RDA<https://rd-alliance.org/groups/rdacodata-legal-interoperability-ig.html>
>> Status: Recognised & Endorsed This Interest Group will define legal interoperability of research data and articulate why it is important for data interoperability and reuse. The group will analyse four case studies and establish best practices through which legal interoperability if research data can be achieved and adopted by stakeholders.
>> rd-alliance.org
>>
>>
>> Also, we keep a Zotero public database of readings and resources at: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1757514/legalinteropdata
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>> And if we can share more ideas about standardized vocabulary around data licensing, please let us know!
>>
>>
>> Zotero | Groups > LegalInteropData<https://www.zotero.org/groups/1757514/legalinteropdata>
>> Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
>> www.zotero.org
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>>
>> All best,
>> Gail
>>
>> Gail P. Clement
>> Head of Research Services & Librarian for Geological and Planetary Sciences
>> Caltech Library | (626) 395-1203 | SFL 329 |
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>> From: Research Data Management discussion list <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Graham Parton - UKRI STFC <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 7:23 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Licence classifications
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I’m in the process of reviewing all our different data licences that we make use of, including things like Creative Commons licences, UK Open gov licences, our own Close-Use and Restricted Use General licences*.
>>
>> One of the things I’d like to do is categorise these licences by what sort of use they permit so that we can clearly and succinctly relay that information to users of our archives.
>>
>> Are there any such licence classification schemes out there already that people know of that would provide such a selection of permitted use types? E.g. licence permits (within the other restrictions of the licence):
>>
>> * Personal use
>> * Policy use
>> * Commercial use
>> * Research use
>> * Teaching use
>> * No clear use
>>
>> I’ve added this latter one in as when we’ve looked at our older ‘licences’ they really are quite shockingly bad and so I reckon there’s a use-case for a such a category.
>>
>> (note this is about the licence , not the access control(!)… that remains a separate matter)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Graham
>>
>>
>>
>> *available for anyone to use to make use of too and follow on from OGL and non-commerical OGL!
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