[IPT] IPT v2.2 - release candidate

John Wieczorek tuco at berkeley.edu
Wed Mar 4 07:01:17 CET 2015


With the latter, I agree. Looking forward to the outcome of the first item.
And thanks, Paul, for realizing this and bringing it forward to everyone's
attention.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 18:55:35 +0100
> Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks Paul and Tuco for the feedback - useful food for thought and I
> note that the DataCite metadata kernel also uses a list for rights,
> not a single statement.  Allowing a collection of rights might be the
> most applicable solution here.
>
>
> That still leaves uncertainty, does the list CC-BY, CC-BY-NC mean that
> the data set in it's entirety is licensed under both CC-BY and
> CC-BY-NC, or that there are parts under one license and parts under the
> other.  At the data set level, collection of rights statements could
> easily be interpreted differently than a statement that rights are
> stated at the record level.
>
>
> Agreed.  We need to understand how this will relate to DataCite, EML etc
> and other networks we need to integrate with.
> I am not yet sure if DataCite intends to use it to indicate dual licensing
> (e.g. it can be used in either license) or if it indicates variance.
> This needs further investigation and we’ll reply.
>
> A point of clarity though - an image extension allows you to provide
> metadata about an image that exists on a URL, but the image itself is
> not part of the DwC-A / dataset.  One field of the image metadata is
> the license applicable for the image but that should not be
> transferred to the dataset being put out by the IPT.  Or are we not
> in agreement on that?  E.g. the DwC-A can be available under CC0 but
> contain links to online images that could be behind some far more
> restrictive license.
>
>
> This does seem fairly clear in an AudobonCore or other media extension
> where metadata about the rights associated with external media objects
> are being asserted in the metadata in association with the retrieval
> locations of those media objects are being asserted.   It seems less
> clear if dwc:associatedMedia is present in a flat Occurrence record, is
> an assertion about the rights made in the dataset level metadata to be
> taken to extend to the digital object at the other end of a link found
> in dwc:associatedMedia?
>
>
> That is one of the common questions - we always advise folk to use a more
> expressive model (i.e. extensions) where it is necessary to associate
> titles, rights statements etc.
>
> More tomorrow.
> Tim
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> Thanks,
> Tim
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> On 03 Mar 2015, at 17:13, John Wieczorek <tuco at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> I agree. This is particularly problematic in a resource that
> includes a media extension, where the rights of the core records
> may well differ from that of the media, and where the rights on
> individual media vary within the extension. I think creates an
> unacceptable barrier. Instead, could the IPT allow a set of rights
> at the dataset level or validate for rights at the record level?
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Paul J. Morris <mole at morris.net>
> wrote: On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 13:18:35 +0100
> Kyle Braak <kbraak at gbif.org> wrote:
>
> Best practice is that the license applied to the dataset should
> not contradict the license(s) applied at the record level.
>
>
> I think this imposes a requirement that the dataset level metadata
> can have a value which indicates that rights are described at the
> record level rather than at the dataset level.  Otherwise, it
> imposes a requirement on data providers that they create a unique
> resource for each separate rights statement, this will be a problem
> for any provider who has more than one rights assertion in their
> data, and for intermediate aggregators who are combining data sets
> from downstream profiders and passing them on to other aggregators
> upstream.
>
> -Paul
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