On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Finn Aarup Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > For Wikimedia related projects I think that the share-alike ODC-ODbL is a > good choice. :-) > > It is a question whether the CC-licenses can be used to any major extent > when the individual data items are mere facts. > > I wonder how you manage to attribute the data sources in aggregation > databases. You might need extra fields: 'source database' and 'license'. I > suppose that is not in the Wikidata proposal? For Wikipedia you often use a > template to indicate source databases where attribution is required.
The source of a statement in Wikidata can be collected and it is an integral part of the data model even. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_model has the whole data model. Storing the license should also be possible. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
