Fwd: Open Data Rights Statements

This looks like it could be interesting in the context of the rights statement that we discussed a few weeks back.

Alasdair

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> Resent-From: public-lod@w3.org
> From: Leigh Dodds <leigh@ldodds.com>
> Subject: Open Data Rights Statements
> Date: 2 July 2013 09:23:05 BST
> To: public-lod community <public-lod@w3.org>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At the UK Open Data Institute we've been working on some guidance and
> a new vocabulary to help support the publication of machine-readable
> rights statements for open data. The vocabulary builds on existing
> work in this area (e.g. Dublin Core and Creative Commons) but
> addresses a few issues that we felt were underspecified.
> 
> The vocabulary is intended to work in a wide variety of contexts, from
> simple JSON documents and data packaging formats through to Linked
> Data and Web APIs.
> 
> The work is now at a stage where we're keen to get wider feedback from
> the community.
> 
> You can read a background on the work in this introductory blog post
> on the UK ODI blog:
> 
> http://theodi.org/blog/machine-readable-rights-statements
> 
> The draft schema can be found here:
> 
> http://schema.theodi.org/odrs/
> 
> And there are publisher and re-user guides to accompany it:
> 
> https://github.com/theodi/open-data-licensing/blob/master/guides/publisher-guide.md
> https://github.com/theodi/open-data-licensing/blob/master/guides/reusers-guide.md
> 
> We would love to hear your feedback on the work. If you do have issues
> or comments, then can I ask that you submit them as an issue to our
> github project:
> 
> https://github.com/theodi/open-data-licensing/issues
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> L.
> 
> --
> Leigh Dodds
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> Open Data, Linked Data Geek
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> 

Dr Alasdair J G Gray
Research Associate
Alasdair.Gray@manchester.ac.uk
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