We use ODC-By with a "special cases" clause for some of our datasets to account for Linked Data situations. Thoughts and comments about this approach would be welcome.
http://purl.oclc.org/dataset/WorldCat http://viaf.org/viaf/data Jeff Sent from my iPad On Mar 31, 2013, at 10:00 AM, "Dominic Oldman" <do...@oldman.me.uk> wrote: > > > > All, > > Sorry, the body of my last message didn't seem to appear on the list. > > I had a question about licensing. Should licenses try to get web publishers > to embed original URIs into web implementations - a sort of invisible > attribution - where practical, and is this practical and/or desirable. > > There is another reason for including URIs which might not be considered in > the Academy. It allows knowledge organisations to see how its knowledge is > being enriched and provide options for bringing it back into the original > information system infrastructures so it can be preserved - a sort of mega > and indirect crowd sourcing but across the Internet rather than any > particular web site. > > If I publish a cuneiform data record and it is reused in different projects > and applications, and the data is enriched with annotations, corrections, > additions etc., if the original URI is embedded, I can harvest this > information and enrich the object record against the original URI so that > subsequent users (including our own researchers and audiences) benefit by > this continual community improvement. This is one of the objectives of the > ResearchSpace project - to encourage enrichment against institutional URIs so > that research projects (which are temporary and are limited in the way that > they give back to the community) have a more permanent and long lasting > legacy. > > Dominic > > From: Kingsley Idehen <kide...@openlinksw.com> > To: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org> > Sent: Saturday, 30 March 2013, 14:35 > Subject: Why is it bad practice to consume Linked Data and publish opaque > HTML pages? > > All, > > " Citing sources is useful for many reasons: (a) it shows that it isn't a > half-baked idea I just pulled out of thin air, (b) it provides a reference > for anybody who wants to dig into the subject, and (c) it shows where the > ideas originated and how they're likely to evolve." -- John F. Sowa [1]. > > An HTTP URI is an extremely powerful citation and attribution mechanism. > Incorporate Linked Data principles and the power increases exponentially. > > It is okay to consume Linked Data from wherever and publish HTML documents > based on source data modulo discoverable original sources Linked Data URIs. > > It isn't okay, to consume publicly available Linked Data from sources such as > the LOD cloud and then republish the extracted content using HTML documents, > where the original source Linked Data URIs aren't undiscoverable by humans or > machines. > > The academic community has always had a very strong regard for citations and > source references. Thus, there's no reason why the utility of Linked Data > URIs shouldn't be used to reinforce this best-practice, at Web-scale . > > Links: > > 1. http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2013-03/msg00084.html -- > ontolog list post . > > -- > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder & CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen > > > > > > >
