{"id":72,"date":"2011-04-05T09:42:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T09:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/salda\/?p=72"},"modified":"2011-04-05T09:42:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T09:42:02","slug":"licencing-our-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/salda\/2011\/04\/05\/licencing-our-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Licencing our data"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have decided to use a Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence<\/a> ( PDDL) to licence our data once it is open and on the Talis Platform.<\/p>\n

Key points of PDDL
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  1. Recommended by JISC for collections of factual data<\/li>\n
  2. Goal is to eliminate restrictions on the use of data so it can be used for any purpose<\/strong> including commmercial and in combination with other data<\/li>\n
  3. There is no requirement to attribute the source of the data<\/li>\n
  4. The Licence makes the work \u2013 in our case the catalogue records of the Mass Observation Archive – permanently \u00a0available to the public for any use of any kind. <\/strong>
    \nThe line above in bold is the scary bit but also the main point of getting the data out there and we are lucky to be sure of its ownership and copyright.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Why we chose PDDL
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    PDDL is the standard for collections of non personal factual data which is what the catalogue records of the Mass Observation Archive are. The assumption is we own the rights to this data as the original creators were employees of the University of Sussex so we are free to licence this data.<\/p>\n

    JISC guards against putting variants in licences for special requirements for example no use of images,\u00a0 as \u201cThe introduction of variant terms into a \u2018Creative Commons-like licence\u2019 from a single institution may require those potential beneficiaries to pay for legal advice in order to understand the implications of the variation. The value of seeing and understanding a single licence across the web is lost, as every minor variation encountered increases the likelihood that the different licences will conflict when combined in some third party use case\u201d (JISC rights and licencing<\/a>). I don\u2019t believe a variant is necessary as it is a collection of factual data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We have decided to use a Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence ( PDDL) to licence our data once it is open and on the Talis Platform. Key points of PDDL Recommended by JISC for collections of factual data Goal is to eliminate restrictions on the use of data so it can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[121,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/salda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/salda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/salda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/salda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/salda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/salda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/salda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/salda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/salda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/salda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}