On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Martin Fenner <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Cameron Neylon and Geoff Bilder have done a lot of work on „principles for
> open scholarly infrastructure“:

Thanks. ORCID is a wholly different beast, though. Much larger budget,
actually has staff, has more institutional involvement, etc. But I
asked Cameron if he has a few main pointers
(https://twitter.com/rintzezelle/status/589837683444297728 and
https://twitter.com/rintzezelle/status/589838592685539328), and we
should definitely take a look at his writings.

> * when ORCID started, the organization set up 10 principles
> (https://orcid.org/about/what-is-orcid/our-principles). They have been very
> helpful, and something like this could also be considered for the CSL
> project, e.g. at the beginning of the document.

But that's basically just a way to write down the project's mission,
right? Regardless of format, are there any important 'principles' our
mission is currently missing?

> * "We will always make the specification and citation styles freely
> available“. I suggest to me more specific and mention specific licenses,
> e.g. CC-BY-SA for content, and either "an OSI-approved open source license“
> or a specific license such as MIT for code.

Agreed. We should probably promise to use CC-BY-SA (or a less
restrictive license) for content, and MIT for CSL-developed code.

> * two people feels like a small number for a board.

Yeah, I wrote that since I didn't know if we would always be able to
find 4 people interested in sitting on the board. What if we don't?
Maybe not an issue if we keep the duties of the board light.

> * „predatory publisher“ is a term I would avoid, as it sometimes difficult
> to define and possibly very political.

I specifically decided not to mention Beall's list, since there is
some (valid) criticism on it, but you may be right that it's better to
avoid the term "predatory publishers" as well. I should also stress
that to date we actually have never refused a single styles based on
this criterion, and it might never come up. I'm not sure if it's
better to include a statement that we reserve the right to refuse
styles that wouldn't benefit the scientific community, or whether we
should just not discuss this (potential) issue at all.

Rintze

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