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Assigning Creative Commons Licenses to Research Metadata: Issues and Cases

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This paper discusses the problem of lack of clear licensing and transparency of usage terms and conditions for research metadata. Making research data connected, discoverable and reusable are the key enablers of the new data revolution in research. We discuss how the lack of transparency hinders discovery of research data and make it disconnected from the publication and other trusted research outcomes. In addition, we discuss the application of Creative Commons licenses for research metadata, and provide some examples of the applicability of this approach to internationally known data infrastructures.

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  1. 1.

    http://dublincore.org/specifications/.

  2. 2.

    http://rioxx.net/.

  3. 3.

    http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/project/details.php?project_id=118.

  4. 4.

    https://www.re3data.org/.

  5. 5.

    http://opendefinition.org.

  6. 6.

    https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0.

  7. 7.

    https://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/publishing-and-reusing-data/licensing-for-reuse/faq-for-research-data-licensing-and-copyright.

  8. 8.

    https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/.

  9. 9.

    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.

  10. 10.

    https://home.cern/.

  11. 11.

    http://www.da-ra.de/.

  12. 12.

    http://nci.org.au.

  13. 13.

    http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/catalog/licenses/catalog.html.

  14. 14.

    https://esgf.llnl.gov/.

  15. 15.

    http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/fileServer/licenses/fj7_licence.pdf.

  16. 16.

    https://www.ecmwf.int/.

  17. 17.

    http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/fileServer/licenses/ub4_licence.pdf.

  18. 18.

    https://www.openaire.eu/.

  19. 19.

    http://www.opendoar.org/.

  20. 20.

    http://researchgraph.org/.

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Poblet, M. et al. (2018). Assigning Creative Commons Licenses to Research Metadata: Issues and Cases. In: Pagallo, U., Palmirani, M., Casanovas, P., Sartor, G., Villata, S. (eds) AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. AICOL AICOL AICOL AICOL AICOL 2015 2016 2016 2017 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10791. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00178-0_16

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