DPLA empfiehlt CC0 für bibliographische Metadaten

Das Board der Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) hat in einem Meeting empfohlen, CC0 als Lizenz für die Publikation von bibliographischen Metadaten zu verwenden. Sofern man überhaupt davon ausgeht, dass die Daten urheberrechtlich geschützt werden können und müssen. Aus der Empfehlung (PDF):

  • The DPLA asserts that metadata are not copyrightable, and that applying a license to them is not necessary.
  • To the extent that the law determines a copyright interest exists, a CC0 license applies.
  • The DPLA asserts no new rights over metadata at the DPLA level.

Damit liegt die DPLA auf einer Linie mit den “Empfehlungen zur Öffnung bibliothekarischer Daten”. [1] Disclaimer: … an denen ich mitgewirkt habe. Und reibt sich ein wenig am Widerspruch von Klaus Tochtermann, der nach Alternativen sucht. In einem Kommentar zu seinem Posting schreibt er:

For me it is still too simple to argue “the tax payers pays so we have to make it public without any restriction”. Yes the tax payer paid and the public has the right to access, reuse the data – no doubt about that. But what about commercialisation of the data? What did we learn during the last decades about publication processes of scientific papers: The tax payer pays twice: First the scientific community writes and reviews the papers for the publishers; Second the scientific community buys the journals in which these papers have been published. What makes you so confident that we will not enter the same loop with data – regardless of whether it is research data or library data? And then the European Commission must help out similar to a recent proposal to publish only OA in EC-funded projects.

Im Gegensatz zu den ins Feld geführten Nicht-OA-Publikationen führt eine Veröffentlichung von bibliographischen Metadaten unter CC0 dazu, dass sie jeder verwenden kann. Wenn man sie zurückkauft, dann muss man das nur, weil ein Mehrwert mitgeliefert wird. Zum Beispiel die Auslieferung als komfortabler Suchindex. Die datenproduzierende Bibliothek hat jedoch jederzeit die Möglichkeit, die Daten selbst aufzubereiten und damit zu machen, was sie will. Die erwähnten Publikationen sind jedoch in der Regel nicht OA verfügbar, sondern werden meist exklusiv einem Verlag zur Nutzung überlassen.

Die Kommerzialisierung von Daten, die unter CC0-Lizenz veröffentlicht wurden, schadet der datenproduzierenden Bibliothek meines Erachtens überhaupt nicht.

[via OpenGLAM]

PS: Dieses Thema wird zur Zeit auch in der Mailingliste RepMan diskutiert. Anlass ist die Möglichkeit, OA-Repositories für den Primo-Central-Index zu registrieren. Voraussetzung: Content must be published with a CC0 (no rights reserved) license.

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1 Disclaimer: … an denen ich mitgewirkt habe.

LOD: data.nature.com

Nature Publishing Group releases linked data platform

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today is pleased to join the linked data community by opening up access to its publication data via a linked data platform. NPG’s Linked Data Platform is available at http://data.nature.com.

The platform includes more than 20 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements, including primary metadata for more than 450,000 articles published by NPG since 1869. In this first release, the datasets include basic citation information (title, author, publication date, etc) as well as NPG specific ontologies. These datasets are being released under an open metadata license, Creative Commons Zero (CC0), which permits maximal use/re-use of this data.

NPG’s platform allows for easy querying, exploration and extraction of data and relationships about articles, contributors, publications, and subjects. Users can run web-standard SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) queries to obtain and manipulate data stored as RDF. The platform uses standard vocabularies such as Dublin Core, FOAF, PRISM, BIBO and OWL, and the data is integrated with existing public datasets including CrossRef and PubMed.

“NPG is delighted to be able to surface data on published articles from Nature and many other journals, going back to 1869,” said Jason Wilde, Business Development Director, NPG. “Linked data is an important next step in the evolution of scientific publishing and, over the coming months, we hope to be able to expose more meta-data on our content to enrich the semantic web.”

Linked data refers to the publishing of structured data that is linked to other related data. It allows users to query, explore and link data from datasets across the web. NPG joins governments from around the world and other organizations including the British Library, the New York Times and the Open University, in providing a linked data platform.

The platform complements other services NPG provides for developers, but incorporates a wider audience. It has been built in collaboration with information and publishing solutions specialist The Stationery Office (TSO) to support scaling.

More information about NPG’s Linked Data Platform is available at http://developers.nature.com/docs. Sample queries can be found at http://data.nature.com/query.

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