Exploring Creative Commons Licenses for Scholarly Metadata Records Natasha Simons Senior Data Management Specialist SciDataCon, Denver CO, 13 September 2016

The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) makes Australia’s research data assets more valuable for researchers, research institutions and the nation. ands.org.au

Exploring Creative Commons Licenses for Scholarly Metadata Records Australian National Data Service (ANDS): Amir Aryani, Adrian Burton, Kathryn Unsworth, Natasha Simons, Xiaobin Shen RMIT University: Marta Poblet Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR): Paolo Manghi National Computational Infrastructure (NCI): Jingbo Wang GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: Brigitte Hausstein, Claus-Peter Klas CENR: Sunje Dallmeier-Tiessen

Agenda Problem: Challenge of reusing metadata ... Question: Can we assign license to metadata? Case study: ANDS, CERN, NCI, da|ra, OpenAire Summary and what should we do next?

Research Metadata Information about Research Datasets about Publications about Research Projects and Grants

Power of Open Research Metadata Make Research Data Discoverable, Reusable and Connected

Challenge: how open is open? Can I change and improve metadata records? Can I aggregate them? Can I use them for research in research? Can I use them in an app? Can I …?

A Solution: Creative Common License CC0: No Rights Reserved Enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright- or database-protected content to waive those interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright or database law. CC-BY: Attribution (by) Requires that others who use your work in any way must give you credit the way you request, but not in a way that suggests you endorse them or their use. If they want to use your work without giving you credit or for endorsement purposes, they must get your permission first.

CC0 Challenge “You should only apply CC0 to your own work, unless you have the necessary rights to apply CC0 to another person’s work.” About CC0 – “No Rights Reserved”, https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0 Open question: Can metadata aggregators or repositories assign a CC0 license to records created by other sources?

CC-BY Challenge “Requires third parties to distribute the work with attribution to the original creators” https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Challenge: Assigning CC-BY licenses to aggregated metadata where the sources of metadata records are not clear. This makes the attribution difficult.

Case Study Application of Creative Common license in the following infrastructures: ANDS CERN da|ra NCI OpenAIRE

ANDS: Research Data Australia ANDS publishes all metadata under an agreement with contributors by which their records will be openly available on the web. However, there is no license attached to these metadata records, as often contributors do not assign licenses to their records. https://researchdata.ands.org.au/

CERN: The research institute for particle physics CERN provide two platforms: INSPIREHEP Open Data Portal Data and metadata are shared with the CC0 waiver, and software with the GNU General Public License (GPL). https://inspirehep.net/info/general/terms-of-use

da|ra: A registration agency for social science and economics data in Germany All metadata are made available under CC0 From 2006 Via OAI-PMH http://www.da-ra.de/oaip/

NCI: The National Computational Infrastructure Australia’s peak computing centre for Data-intensive Earth system science. 10 Petabytes of 30+ major national and international environmental, climate, earth system, geophysics and astronomy data collections Data and metadata are quality assured for ‘publication’ and made accessible as services under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0

OpenAIRE infrastructure is the point of reference for Open Access and Open Science in Europe. Data sources sign a Terms of Agreement where they grant to the OpenAIRE services the right of collecting and reusing metadata records under CC0. The metadata records are available under CC-BY or CC0, with no restriction of embargo or re-use.

Summary Our case studies show some evidence where the CC0 or CC-BY can be applied to research metadata, enabling reuse of metadata with a clear license and transparency about conditions of use.

Future work Contact one of the co-authors: Extended case studies including funding informations and identifier providers Feedback from experts Contact one of the co-authors: Amir Aryani (amir.aryani@ands.org.au) Natasha Simons (natasha.simons@ands.org.au)

Natasha Simons & Amir Aryani ANDS is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program. Monash University leads the partnership with the Australian National University and CSIRO. With the exception of logos, third party images or where otherwise indicated, this work is licensed under the Creative Commons Australia Attribution 3.0 Licence. Natasha Simons & Amir Aryani natasha.simons@ands.org.au amir.aryani@ands.org.au