Conference Paper: “Assigning Creative Commons Licenses to Research Metadata: Issues and Cases” (Preprint)

The following preprint by a group of ten authors (various affiliations) was recently made available on arXiv.
It has been submitted to the 29th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2016), Nice (France) 14-16 December 2016.
Title
Assigning Creative Commons Licenses to Research Metadata: Issues and Cases
Authors
Marta Poblet
RMIT University
Amir Aryani
Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
Paolo Manghi
ISTI, Italian Research Council
Kathryn Unsworth
Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
Jingbo Wang
Australian National University
Brigitte Hausstein
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Sunje Dallmeier-Tiessen
CERN
Claus-Peter Klas
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Pompeu Casanovas
IDT, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Deakin University
Victor Rodriguez Doncel
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Source
via arXiv
Abstract

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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