Re: [Discuss] Best practices for licensing data?

2016-05-27 Thread Karin Lagesen
Thanks Elizabeth, this gives me a place to start :) Karin On 25/05/16 21:16, E.W. wrote: Karin, This depends on the area that you are working in and the type of questions that you have. There tends to be issues around: * data/software/code licensing problems * open access for publications *

Re: [Discuss] Best practices for licensing data?

2016-05-26 Thread E.W.
My opinions about licenses run more to seeing CC0 as the default for data with the use of CCBY only under careful consideration. People report a lot of fear about CC0 being used on their data, because people could do anything with it and they aren't required to cite. That's true, but the use of

Re: [Discuss] Best practices for licensing data?

2016-05-25 Thread Jan Kim
Dear Matthias, dear All, probably a question tangential to the subject of this thread but -- are SBML models data, or are they software? Personally I'm inclined to categorise them as the latter. Best regards, Jan On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 06:05:51PM +0200, Matthias Nilsson wrote: > Hi, > > I got

Re: [Discuss] Best practices for licensing data?

2016-05-25 Thread Karin Lagesen
Elizabeth, thanks for a very informative answer! You wouldn´t happen to have some links to sites where a "normal" person could read about stuff like this so that those of us who tend to accumulate data like this can actually make sense of these issues? Karin (who is frequently confused

Re: [Discuss] Best practices for licensing data?

2016-05-25 Thread E.W.
Hi Matthias, A big part of my job is attempting to answer this question for researchers at my (US) university and as part of on a team developing a data repository. I've done some analysis on the licenses that are used by datasets within DataCite records. As of December 2015 when I scraped the