Metadata Reuse Policies
Following on from yesterday's post about making metadata available on our Web pages, I wanted to ask here about "metadata reuse policies". Does anybody have a clue as to what might constitute a best practice in this area? I'm specifically interested in license terms, rather than how those terms would be encoded or carried. Increasingly we are finding more channels to distribute metadata (RSS, HTML, OAI-PMH, etc.) but don't yet have any clear statement for our customers as to how they might reuse that data.
Time to put the caveats aside and focus on the actuals.
Comments
Didn't Talis put a lot of work into this area? See, for example, this.
Posted by: Bruce | May 20, 2008 09:09 AM
Part of it depends on how open you want to be to re-use. Are you trying to allow re-use under an open-source-like model, or are you trying to limit re-use? If you are trying to license for expansive re-use, then, yeah the Creative Commons Open Data license, development of which was funded by Talis, seems like the way to go.
Posted by: Jonathan Rochkind | May 20, 2008 10:17 PM