On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Peter DeVries pete.devries@gmail.com wrote:
I have redone my occurrence records to match the single example I had posted before. (Go to the last example, if you just want something pretty) Here is the RDF: http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9.rdf [...]
- Pete
Without regard to the structure of your RDF but rather to your license attribute on txn:Occurrence, you might care that (a) the CC Public Domain Mark license is intended to apply to work that was once copyrighted but now isn't. (b)For lots of reasons, CC now recommends against the use of CC licenses for data ( [1], [2] ). (c)Without regard to whether data is copyrightable, CC licenses only apply to copyrightable material; in all countries subscribing to the Copyright Convention, only creative works are copyrightable; I'm pretty sure you don't intend that an Occurrence is a creative work (or even that its expression is--at least an expression in a standard form).
[1] http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/ [2] http://sciencecommons.org/resources/faq/database-protocol/
Bob Morris