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Need a way of indicating when a dataset/database is released under a particular licence #553

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create and publish a dataset using ORDS
2. Think 'I'd like to make this dataset available using a Creative Commons/Open 
Data Commons Licence'
3. Realize there's no easy way of doing this

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Researchers are often encouraged to release their research data under an open 
licence. It would be useful if the ORDS provided them with an easy way of doing 
this.

The most straightforward way of implementing this would be to give them a 
drop-down list to choose from when they publish a dataset, although we'd 
probably also need to provide links to further info about the options.

NB. Whatever is done about this should also take into account the ongoing 
discussions about ownership of research data and the right of individual 
researchers to release their data under an open licence - e.g. if it turns out 
departmental sign-off is needed, we may need to alert users to this.

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by meriel.p...@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2014 at 10:45