- From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@theodi.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 13:27:39 +0100
- To: Fadi Maali <fadi.maali@deri.org>
- Cc: public-gld-comments@w3.org, Stuart Harrison <stuart.harrison@theodi.org>, Leigh Dodds <leigh@ldodds.com>
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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