I think perhaps that "property type" here doesn't mean "intellectual property", but wikidata / field types.
However, if it is "intellectual property", in the US a citation would likely not be copyrightable, as it is purely factual information arranged in a standard format. Laura ---------------------------------- Laura Markstein Quilter / [email protected] Librarian, Geek, Attorney, Teacher Copyright and Information Policy Librarian University of Massachusetts, Amherst [email protected] Lecturer, Simmons College, GSLIS [email protected] On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: > Citations are copyright whoever composes them; however, it is is hard to > imagine a citation that would not fall under fair use. > > Fred > > > Something that I thought about when going over this is citations. What > > property type - if any - are Citations? > > > > Ususally a citation is not fundamental to an article. It's very possible > > that two different language will cite one article differently. Yet in the > > cases that either a) two languages share a citation, or b) there is a > > "seminal" work on the topic, it might be worth having a Citation property > > to point to in Wikidata. > > > > What's the best way to handle this? I would think that you could have a > > citation datatype which is a "Pair" the first part of the pair, is the > > mode of the citation, and the second half would be another > > wikidata-property. So if you were citing a book, you'd have > > > > Book (Cite mode) | author, edition, isbn (wikidata property) > > > > I don't know if that's encompassing enough. Thoughts? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Federico Leva (Nemo) [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 2:07 PM > > To: Wikimedia & Libraries > > Subject: Re: [libraries] Call to arms for librarians > > > > I don't understand if this is or will be in a "poll" phase or not. > > Also, what exactly should be done about this mess of proposals for item > > types? > > > > 6 Work / Werk / Å’uvre > > ... > > > > Nemo > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Libraries mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >
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