From: David Hansen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 20:18:32 -0500

I agree that marking up the license conditions would be much more useful. It
sounds as if the NISO group's project scope was quite narrow, though, and
that markup of the license conditions is beyond what they set out to do.

I did not see any mention of Sherpa/RoMEO in the documentation that listed
consulted organizations. I wonder if that was an oversight?

Dave

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From: Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:02:57 +0100

Marking-up the license *conditions* as XML would definitely be more useful.
Something quite generic like:

<license ref="{publisher_or_license_url}">

  <copyright>
    <plain>{plain_copyright_statement}</plain>
    <owner type="[individual|corporation|...]></owner>
    <year>{year}</year>
    <country>[ISO 3166-1 alpha2/3 code]</country>
  </copyright>

  <use_allowed>
     <access type="[free|paid|..]" ref="{publisher_condition_url}"></access>
     <read type="[free|paid|..]" ref="{publisher_condition_url}"></read>
     <quote type="[free|paid|..]" ref="{publisher_condition_url}"></quote>
     <cite type="[free|paid|..]" ref="{publisher_condition_url}"></cite>
     <mine type="[free|paid|..]" ref="{publisher_condition_url}"></mine>
  </use_allowed>

  <use_disallowed>
    <commercial type="[free|paid|..]"
ref="{publisher_condition_url}"></commercial>
    <derivatives type="[free|paid|..]"
ref="{publisher_condition_url}"></derivatives>
    ...
  </use_disallowed>

</license>

etc.

Kind regards,
Dietrich Rordorf

On 07.01.2014 01:14, LIBLICENSE wrote:
>
> From: Cynthia Hodgson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014
> 11:03:18 -0500
>
>
> The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is seeking
> comments on the draft recommended practice Open Access Metadata and
> Indicators (NISO RP-22-201x). Launched in January 2013, the NISO Open
> Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group was chartered to develop
> protocols and mechanisms for transmitting the access status of
> scholarly works, specifically to indicate whether a specific work is
> openly accessible (i.e., free-to-read by any user who can get to the
> work over the internet) and what re-use rights might be available.
> This draft recommended practice proposes the adoption of two core
> pieces of metadata and associated tags: <free_to_read> and
> <license_ref>. The first tag would indicate that the work is freely
> accessible during the specified timeframe (if applicable). The second
> tag would contain a reference to a URI that carries the license terms
> specifying how a work may be used.
>
> "Currently publishers provide articles that are free-to-read under a
> wide range of re-use terms and licenses," explains Cameron Neylon,
> Advocacy Director, PLOS, and Co-chair of the NISO Open Access Metadata
> and Indicators Working Group. "It is unclear to readers when an
> article is freely accessible and what their re-use rights are. Funders
> are unsure if the publication of an article complies with their open
> access policies. Aggregators and platform or knowledgebase providers
> have no consistent mechanism for machine-processing metadata and
> identifying the accessibility or rights status. Adoption of these two
> common metadata designations will allow both humans and machines to
> assess the status of content."
>
> "Use and re-use rights can be difficult to explain in metadata,"
> states Ed Pentz, Executive Director, CrossRef, and Co-chair of the
> NISO Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group. "By publishing
> URIs for applicable licenses and including these URIs in the metadata
> for the content, more detailed explanations of rights can be made
> available. The <license_ref> metadata can also be used to express how
> usage rights change over time or point to different licenses for
> particular time periods, for example when an embargo applies."
>
> "The recommended metadata tags can easily be incorporated into
> existing metadata distribution channels, encoded in XML, and added to
> existing schemas and workflows," states Greg Tananbaum, Consultant at
> SPARC and Co-chair of the NISO Open Access Metadata and Indicators
> Working Group. "Publishers and platform providers can use the
> <free_to_read> tag to automate the display of appropriate status icons
> to users. The combination of <free_to_read> and <license_ref> metadata
> provides a mechanism for signaling or determining compliance with most
> funder and institutional policies that allow compliance through the
> article publisher's site."
>
> "In addition to the recommendations, the Working Group has defined the
> most common use cases," states Nettie Lagace, NISO's Associate
> Director for Programs. "For each use case, the current situation and
> applicable stakeholders are described and the extent to which the
> recommendations will solve the situation is explained. The group has
> also identified several issues for further follow-up, such as the
> incorporation of the recommended metadata into existing formats, such
> as ONIX."
>
> The draft recommended practice is open for public comment through
> February 4, 2014. To download the draft or submit online comments,
> visit the Open Access Metadata and Indicators webpage at:
> www.niso.org/workrooms/oami/.
>
> Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information
> Standards Organization [log in to unmask] 301-654-2512