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culturehack / data-tool

A collection of cultural data sets and sources & a website to browse them.
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Give more context to Licensing labels #27

Closed we-are-caper closed 11 years ago

we-are-caper commented 11 years ago

Is it possible to make the licensing info a click through to something? I'm not sure what PD means, for instance, on this page http://data.culturehack.org.uk/dataset/37251027-Pepys-Diary and there's no way of finding out.

mildlydiverting commented 11 years ago

Should be, but I think this might involve front end tweaks logic if we want to link from the PD badge in the sidebar

I think our options are

1. Controlled list and array in code

ensure that the underlying code 'knows' about a set list of possible licenses, and has a related link to apply to them held in an array somewhere. Currently these would be

We'd then need to make sure that we have a dropdown in the prose.io editing interface, and/or we always stick to the same set of licenses. Changing the list is an amend to code (see #23 for discussion of how setting categories works in code)

2. Links in human readable section

Add links to specific information in the human readable chunk of license info in the 'metadata' section of the text files These appear at the foot of the entry when the files are pulled through the site. This means our labels won't be linkable, but there is still full information in the entry.

3. info in About page

Add relevant information to the about page that details lists of licenses, and just make the license label span link to the info in about rather than a specific license?

3 is probably the easiest option now I think about it...

frankieroberto commented 11 years ago

I think it's definitely worth expanding those acronyms in the side-bar of each source page. We already do that with the 'size' abbreviations (S/M/XL), so it makes sense.

There's also the section on each page which can give more detail about the licence.

We could expand the licence names in the index view too, but with things like CC-BY-NC-ND the full name would be pretty long...

mildlydiverting commented 11 years ago

OK

Flickr's model of saying 'Some Rights Reserved' is pretty good. Suggest in sidebar, below rights label, we add a simple human description

CC0 / PD Public Domain, open

CC-By etc Some rights reserved

T+C / &Copy; Custom License

I've already added a chunk to About and given it an id of License, so you could just make the labels/comments clickable and link through?

Probably leave as is on index view.