From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 11:36:01 +0000

Publishers could certainly add this type of metadata, but what about
author-deposited OA materials?  Do we really think authors are going to do
it?

Sally

Sally Morris
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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