Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data

http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol

This memo provides information for the Internet community interested in distributing data or databases under an “open access” structure.

See also
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/12/science-commons-protocol-for-open-data.html

Suber writes:

The protocol “is persuasive. For example, I’ve been thinking that any open data standard would probably have to require attribution, if only to recruit participating researchers. But the protocol cogently argues that such a requirement would result in “attribution stacking” (e.g. crediting “40,000 data depositors in the event of a query across 40,000 data sets”) and violate the “principle of low transaction costs.” It’s equally cogent in arguing that open data should not limit re-use with “share-alike” and similar contractual restrictions.”

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