Re: DCAT: License vs Rights

+1 from me to Jeni's proposal to support both dct:rights and dct:license.

Andrea


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Jeni Tennison <jeni@theodi.org> wrote:

> Thanks Fadi,
>
> It's not clear from the new text whether compliant catalogs can use
> dct:license (as a sub property of dct:rights) or not? I think it's useful,
> for the simple case, to support the use of dct:license directly as well as
> dct:rights.
>
> For information, ODI is working on a vocabulary for expressing rights and
> licences, particularly in a European context.
>
> Jeni
>
> On 30 May 2013, at 11:32, Fadi Maali <fadi.maali@deri.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello Jeni,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your feedback on DCAT vocabulary.
> >
> > The Working Group supported your suggestion of using dct:rights instead
> of dct:license. It is implemented in the draft now:
> > https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/dcat/index.html
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Fadi
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > Fadi Maali
> > PhD student @ DERI
> > Irish Research Council Embark Scholarship holder
> > http://www.deri.ie/users/fadi-maali
> >
> > On 3 Apr 2013, at 11:56, Jeni Tennison <jeni@theodi.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've been looking at DCAT from an legal perspective. The extent of the
> legal metadata supported within DCAT, are that both Distributions and
> Catalogs have a license property (described as "The license under which the
> distribution is made available").
> >>
> >> In Europe, data publishers have both copyright and database rights over
> the data that they publish, and may have to reference more than one licence
> as a result. In addition, there is often extra information that supplements
> the licence to enable reusers to fulfil it, such as the attribution that
> they have to provide when they reuse. Having a single link to a licence and
> not having a mechanism to give this supplementary information might be too
> simplistic.
> >>
> >> So, I wonder whether it would be better to incorporate dct:rights than
> dct:license, and link to a rights statement that would include licensing
> and attribution information both for the copyright and for the database
> right if there is one.
> >>
> >> I note that in CKAN the link to the licence uses the relation
> dct:rights. The only things related to licensing in data.gov are around
> attribution (I believe this is because all US government data is public
> domain).
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Jeni
> >> --
> >> Jeni Tennison, Technical Director   theODI.org
> >> +44 (0) 7974 420 482                @JeniT
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> --
> Jeni Tennison, Technical Director   theODI.org
> +44 (0) 7974 420 482                @JeniT
>
>
>


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