User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/ZKM 2014

Open licenses for research data

Abstract
There are multiple ways in which research data can be shared, and one of the issues to be addressed in the process is that of the rights that users should have when using the data. Open licenses come in a variety of flavours, but they have in common that they do not restrict who can reuse materials, nor for what purposes. In this talk, several open licenses will be discussed in terms of their applicability to research data, along with machine readability, and best practices for data citation.

Original focus

 * Creative Commons wiki: Data
 * Includes FAQ on questions related to the use of Creative Commons licenses for data
 * Largely covered in the following talk, "Schutz und Lizenzierung von Forschungsdaten" (Andreas Wiebe, University of Göttingen)

Cultural

 * A figure from a recent paper: 


 * Two videos providing the basis for an article but not published along with it.

Technical

 * Inconsistent XML as a Barrier to Reuse of Open Access Content

Legal

 * The focus of this session.

Generating data

 * complete, with sufficient metadata for analysis
 * manually or through bots
 * attribution
 * provisions for not sharing sensitive data
 * contractual or institutional limits regarding data sharing
 * must take into account the opinions of/ regulations for co-authors

Reusing data

 * discoverability
 * proper metadata
 * clear licensing and authorship statements
 * manually or through bots
 * API
 * common formats
 * common standards

Curating data

 * clear licensing and authorship statements not always possible
 * a lot of effor goes into proper metadata
 * discoverability
 * manually or through bots
 * long-term preservation
 * open data formats
 * open standards

Data stewardship regulations

 * many funders and institutions now require a data management plan or similar
 * much of this is limited to the project duration
 * many project-funded infrastructures have a short life span
 * LOCKSS
 * CLOCKSS
 * making data management plans machine readable is on the horizon at the NIH

Principles and definitions

 * Open definition
 * Bermuda Principles
 * Panton Principles
 * Bouchout declaration
 * Data Citation Principles

Open data licenses

 * Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License
 * Waives any creativity-related rights that may stand in the way of reuse; does not touch upon other rights (e.g. personality rights, trademark rights)
 * Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By)
 * Similar to the above, but requires attribution
 * Creative Commons CC-Zero Waiver
 * Waives copyright-related rights, so not necessarily appropriate for data/ databases
 * Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
 * Did not cover database rights.
 * Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
 * Does cover sui generis database rights.
 * Open Database License
 * Problematic because of copyleft clause

About
This page belongs to a talk given on September 15, 2014, as part of Research Data Management: Organizational, Technical, and Legal Challenges at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe.

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