MacKenzie Smith on open licenses for metadata
MacKenzie Smith of MIT and Creative Commons talks about the new 4-star rating system for open licenses for metadata from cultural institutions:
The draft is up on the LOD-LAM site.
Here are some comments on the system from open access guru Peter Suber.
Categories: copyright, culture, open access dw







Not sure if this is just my computer, but the link to the draft takes me to a “Congratulations, you are a winner!” website that doesn’t look anything like what the LOD-LAM site should look like.
Weird. http://www.tinyurl.com/4starlicense2 works for me.
Just in case, here’s what it resolves to:
http://lod-lam.net/summit/2011/06/06/proposed-a-4-star-classification-scheme-for-linked-open-cultural-metadata/
I see the problem now – the link in the post is lacking the “y” in tinyurl
Aha! Thanks, John! I thought I’d gotten url in the video wrong, which would have been much harder to fix. I’ve fixed it in the body of the post.
Thanks for your persistence.
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