Abstracts are intended to be shared. Let's try not to give in to
copyright paranoia too much...
--
Piotr Konieczny
PhD Candidate
Dept of Sociology
Uni of Pittsburgh
http://pittsburgh.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
On 3/10/2012 10:31 AM, Chitu Okoli wrote:
Hi everyone,
Last year we asked for feedback about a large literature review we are
currently conducting on peer-reviewed studies on Wikipedia. We thank
everyone who gave us comments and pointers, and we have carefully
listened to everything. We're glad to mention that we've joined forces
with Finn Årup Nielsen, and so we'll be fully merging our review into
his (his latest working paper is available at
http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/edoc_download.php/6012/pdf/imm6012.pdf).
In the next week or so we expect to release the main dataset of our
extraction to a public SMW wiki for comments and feedback before we
proceed with further analysis. However, we have two questions to
clarify about how to release our data. I'll be posting them in two
distinct threads for more organized responses. Here I'll ask a
question about posting published abstracts, and in a separate posting
I'll ask about license.
We would really love to put up all the abstracts of the articles that
we post (and indeed have already done so on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ACST), but I recently encountered the
following article which basically argues that mass posting of
abstracts is not justifiable as fair use, at least in the context of
Wikipedia:
http://journalology.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-you-cant-copy-abstracts-into.html
We don't think this argument necessarily applies to websites that list
abstracts (for example, PubMed and Medeley published thousands of
abstracts), but we would really liketo hear the community's comments
on whether posting copyrighted abstracts (in our case, over 400)
generally qualifies as fair use.
Regards,
Chitu
For the Wikilit project team: Arto Lanamäki, Mohamad Mehdi, Mostafa
Mesgari, Finn Årup Nielsen, Chitu Okoli
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