[tdwg-content] Data Licenses; Was: Re: Occurrence Records, with Individuals and Identifications
Bob Morris
morris.bob at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 01:41:17 CEST 2010
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 at 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:title>Boloria 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:identifier>http://ocs.taxonconcept.org/ocs/f522444a-2dd9-400e-be59-47213ef38cb9#Occurrence</dcterms:identifier>
> <cc:license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/"/>
> <cc:attributionURL rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org"/>
> <cc:attributionName>Peter J. DeVries</cc:attributionName>
> <cc:morePermissions rdf:resource="http://about.geospecies.org/projects/"/>
> <dcterms:created>2010-10-21T00:00:00-0500</dcterms:created>
> <dcterms:modified>2010-10-22T00:10:51-0500</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:hasScientificName>Boloria selene</txn:hasScientificName>
> <txn:continent>North America</txn:continent>
> <txn:countryCode>US</txn:countryCode>
> <txn:country>United States</txn:country>
> <txn:stateProvince>Wisconsin</txn:stateProvince>
> <txn:county>Door</txn:county>
> <txn:localityText>Town of Sevastopol</txn:localityText>
> <txn:locationName>Shivering Sands Natural Area Woods</txn:locationName>
> <txn:occurrenceHasArea rdf:resource="geo:44.86528100,-87.23147800;u=10"/>
> <geo:lat>44.86528100</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/"/>
> <!-- The dates should be refactored into a standard date vocabulary -->
> <txn:startDate>2005-07-24</txn:startDate>
> <txn:endDate>2005-07-24</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:identificationDate>2008</txn:identificationDate>
> <txn:identifiedAs
> rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/ICmLC#Species"/>
> <!-- The literals below should be replaced with URI's -->
> <txn:institutionCode>IRCW</txn:institutionCode>
> <txn:collectionCode>PJDPO</txn:collectionCode>
> <txn:catalogCode>PJDPO000179</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 at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Peter DeVries <pete.devries at 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 at gmail.com
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>>
>>
>>
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>> Pete DeVries
>> Department of Entomology
>> University of Wisconsin - Madison
>> 445 Russell Laboratories
>> 1630 Linden Drive
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>
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Pete DeVries
> Department of Entomology
> University of Wisconsin - Madison
> 445 Russell Laboratories
> 1630 Linden Drive
> Madison, WI 53706
> TaxonConcept Knowledge Base / GeoSpecies Knowledge Base
> About the GeoSpecies Knowledge Base
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>
--
Robert A. Morris
Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
UMASS-Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd
Boston, MA 02125-3390
Associate, Harvard University Herbaria
email: morris.bob at gmail.com
web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/
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