Re: [tdwg-content] Data Licenses; Was: Re: Occurrence Records, with Individuals and Identifications
Hi Bob,
I need to think about this a little more, but these are records that I had previously exposed on GeoSpecies as cc with attribution., so they were a change.
Also they include a photograph as supporting evidence, see foaf:depiction.
These were mainly done to create examples that showed an Occurrence, Individual, Identification and used the ietf proposal for an "Area" geo e.g.
"geo:44.86528100,-87.23147800;u=10".
The example creates these in one RDF file, but assertions etc. can be made about these individual entities as if they were separate things.
I think most data sets will probably need some sort of license that allows them to be used but with some sort of attribution.
I would be interested in hearing people's opinion on what they would recommend.
Also these records were created for purposes of the discussion, there are some other aspects that I will probably change in the future.
Below is the actual RDF for the #Occurrence element.
<txn:Occurrence rdf:about=" http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9#Occurre... "> dcterms:titleBoloria selene Occurrence Shivering Sands Natural Area Woods 2005-07-24/2005-07-24</dcterms:title> <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/void#this%22/%3E dcterms:identifier http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9#Occurre... </dcterms:identifier> <cc:license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/%22/%3E <cc:attributionURL rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org%22/%3E cc:attributionNamePeter J. DeVries</cc:attributionName> <cc:morePermissions rdf:resource="http://about.geospecies.org/projects/%22/%3E dcterms:created2010-10-21T00:00:00-0500</dcterms:created> dcterms:modified2010-10-22T00:10:51-0500</dcterms:modified> <txn:occurrenceHasSpeciesOccurrenceTag rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/ICmLC#Occurrence%22/%3E <txn:occurrenceHasSpeciesConcept rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/ICmLC#Species%22/%3E <txn:occurrenceHasIndividual rdf:resource=" http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9#Individ... "/> txn:hasScientificNameBoloria selene</txn:hasScientificName> txn:continentNorth America</txn:continent> txn:countryCodeUS</txn:countryCode> txn:countryUnited States</txn:country> txn:stateProvinceWisconsin</txn:stateProvince> txn:countyDoor</txn:county> txn:localityTextTown of Sevastopol</txn:localityText> txn:locationNameShivering Sands Natural Area Woods</txn:locationName> <txn:occurrenceHasArea rdf:resource="geo:44.86528100,-87.23147800;u=10"/> geo:lat44.86528100</geo:lat> geo:long-87.23147800</geo:long> <txn:georeferenceProtocol rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#GeoProtocol_GPS%22/%3E <txn:georeferenceVerificationStatus rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#GeoVerifiedByCollector%22/%3E <txn:occurrenceInContinent rdf:resource="http://sws.geonames.org/6255149/ "/> <txn:occurrenceInStateProvince rdf:resource=" http://sws.geonames.org/5279468/%22/%3E <txn:occurrenceInCounty rdf:resource="http://sws.geonames.org/5250768/%22/%3E <!-- The dates should be refactored into a standard date vocabulary --> txn:startDate2005-07-24</txn:startDate> txn:endDate2005-07-24</txn:endDate> <txn:samplingProtocol rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#SamplingProtocol_IndividualObse... "/> <!-- collector and identified by should be foaf:Person --> <txn:collector rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/people.owl#Peter_J_DeVries%22/%3E <txn:identifiedBy rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/people.owl#Kyle_E_Johnson%22/%3E <!-- identificationDate should have a standard type for year --> txn:identificationDate2008</txn:identificationDate> <txn:identifiedAs rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/ICmLC#Species%22/%3E <!-- The literals below should be replaced with URI's --> txn:institutionCodeIRCW</txn:institutionCode> txn:collectionCodePJDPO</txn:collectionCode> txn:catalogCodePJDPO000179</txn:catalogCode> <txn:individualStatus rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#IndividualStatus_Unknown%22/%3E <txn:basisOfRecord rdf:resource=" http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#BasisOfRecord_StillImage%22/%3E <foaf:depiction rdf:resource=" http://assets.geospecies.org/spec_concept_uuid/e096643b-ff98-4f51-bd80-3ff0c... "/> <foaf:page rdf:resource=" http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9.rdf%22/... </txn:Occurrence>
Respectfully,
- Pete
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Peter DeVries pete.devries@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Bob,
Thanks for this. I will look into fixing this.
- Pete
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Bob Morris morris.bob@gmail.com wrote:
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
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I recommend reading [1], especially the section "Scientific Literature and Copyrights." (Disclosure: I am a Director of Plazi Verein). Now:
- Creative Commons licenses apply only to works that are copyrightable [2]. - CC0 and its relative PDM [3] are not licenses. CC calls them "tools" [4], but both still apply only to "works" in the sense of the Berne Convention. ("work" is discussed in [1] ). - My central point is about your assertion of rights on an Occurrence. I doubt there are any rights of any kind to the Boleria selense Occurrence on which you assert cc:license---certainly not copyrights, because that Occurrence is a putative fact of nature, not a creative expression on your part.
There's more room for application of copyright to the document itself, though that will still hinge on whether it is a "work" in the sense of the Berne Convention.
None of this applies to the photograph, for which you(?) have argued is neither the Occurrence, nor the Taxon. Probably most would argue that the photograph is copyrightable, though I find that a bit disappointing in the sense that the scientifically most useful images might be the least creative, but rather the most faithful to the appearance of the organism.
In RDF comprising taxon descriptions generated by plazi [5] and harvested by EoL, we address this all explicitly for the case of taxon descriptions. We assert: <dcterms:rights >No known copyright restrictions apply</dcterms:rights>
--Bob Morris
[1] Egloff and Agosti, Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach, BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53doi:10.1186/1756-0500-2-53 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/2/53 [2] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing [3] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/PDM_FAQ [4] http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/ [5] http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/SPM/PlaziEOLProject
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/2/53 On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Peter DeVries pete.devries@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Bob, I need to think about this a little more, but these are records that I had previously exposed on GeoSpecies as cc with attribution., so they were a change. Also they include a photograph as supporting evidence, see foaf:depiction. These were mainly done to create examples that showed an Occurrence, Individual, Identification and used the ietf proposal for an "Area" geo e.g. "geo:44.86528100,-87.23147800;u=10". The example creates these in one RDF file, but assertions etc. can be made about these individual entities as if they were separate things. I think most data sets will probably need some sort of license that allows them to be used but with some sort of attribution. I would be interested in hearing people's opinion on what they would recommend. Also these records were created for purposes of the discussion, there are some other aspects that I will probably change in the future. Below is the actual RDF for the #Occurrence element. txn:Occurrence rdf:about="http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9#Occurrence" dcterms:titleBoloria selene Occurrence Shivering Sands Natural Area Woods 2005-07-24/2005-07-24</dcterms:title> dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/void#this"/ dcterms:identifierhttp://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9#Occurre...</dcterms:identifier> <cc:license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/%22/%3E <cc:attributionURL rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org%22/%3E cc:attributionNamePeter J. DeVries</cc:attributionName> <cc:morePermissions rdf:resource="http://about.geospecies.org/projects/%22/%3E dcterms:created2010-10-21T00:00:00-0500</dcterms:created> dcterms:modified2010-10-22T00:10:51-0500</dcterms:modified> txn:occurrenceHasSpeciesOccurrenceTag rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/ICmLC#Occurrence"/ txn:occurrenceHasSpeciesConcept rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/ICmLC#Species"/ txn:occurrenceHasIndividual rdf:resource="http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9#Individual"/ txn:hasScientificNameBoloria selene</txn:hasScientificName> txn:continentNorth America</txn:continent> txn:countryCodeUS</txn:countryCode> txn:countryUnited States</txn:country> txn:stateProvinceWisconsin</txn:stateProvince> txn:countyDoor</txn:county> txn:localityTextTown of Sevastopol</txn:localityText> txn:locationNameShivering Sands Natural Area Woods</txn:locationName> <txn:occurrenceHasArea rdf:resource="geo:44.86528100,-87.23147800;u=10"/> geo:lat44.86528100</geo:lat> geo:long-87.23147800</geo:long> txn:georeferenceProtocol rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#GeoProtocol_GPS"/ txn:georeferenceVerificationStatus rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#GeoVerifiedByCollector"/ txn:occurrenceInContinent rdf:resource="http://sws.geonames.org/6255149/"/ txn:occurrenceInStateProvince rdf:resource="http://sws.geonames.org/5279468/"/ <txn:occurrenceInCounty rdf:resource="http://sws.geonames.org/5250768/%22/%3E <!-- The dates should be refactored into a standard date vocabulary --> txn:startDate2005-07-24</txn:startDate> txn:endDate2005-07-24</txn:endDate> txn:samplingProtocol rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#SamplingProtocol_IndividualObservation"/ <!-- collector and identified by should be foaf:Person --> txn:collector rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/people.owl#Peter_J_DeVries"/ txn:identifiedBy rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/people.owl#Kyle_E_Johnson"/ <!-- identificationDate should have a standard type for year --> txn:identificationDate2008</txn:identificationDate> txn:identifiedAs rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/ICmLC#Species"/ <!-- The literals below should be replaced with URI's --> txn:institutionCodeIRCW</txn:institutionCode> txn:collectionCodePJDPO</txn:collectionCode> txn:catalogCodePJDPO000179</txn:catalogCode> txn:individualStatus rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#IndividualStatus_Unknown"/ txn:basisOfRecord rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#BasisOfRecord_StillImage"/ foaf:depiction rdf:resource="http://assets.geospecies.org/spec_concept_uuid/e096643b-ff98-4f51-bd80-3ff0ca88a924/Boloria_selene.jpg"/ foaf:page rdf:resource="http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9.rdf"/ </txn:Occurrence> Respectfully,
- Pete
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Peter DeVries pete.devries@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Bob, Thanks for this. I will look into fixing this.
- Pete
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Bob Morris morris.bob@gmail.com wrote:
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
-- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Associate, Harvard University Herbaria email: morris.bob@gmail.com web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram phone (+1) 857 222 7992 (mobile)
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