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Work Package 3 - Digital rights issues
Last updated 13 March 2007
Description
This work package will aim to gain an understanding of the rights issues that will arise in a geospatial repository environment, and to establish a licensing system that will be acceptable to the community, before creating and deploying the infrastructure for data sharing. In detail, it will consider the complexities arising from the use of derived and repurposed data. Geospatial material created in the education sector can be highly complex, incorporating data created elsewhere either as found, or customised to fit the particular need of the academic or lecturer. The downstream rights issues can become very complex, as it is necessary to ensure that permissions have been gained to reuse or repurpose data, and it is usually essential to ensure that correct attribution is made. What rights are invested in a data set will impinge on how, whether, by whom and under what conditions it may be used, liability, how it can and should be documented and even stored (sensitive information may require encryption); and how, whether and by whom it might be legally preserved.
Work items
- Compendium of derived geospatial data (pdf document, 2.9 MB). This report provides a series of examples of derived geospatial data highlighting the variety of source geospatial data providers and a number of geoprocessing techniques.
- A report on geospatial databases and the research and education sector in the UK - designing a licensing strategy for sharing and reuse of data. This report aims to develop a clear understanding of digital rights issues for created geospatial data respecting, where applicable, the licensing conditions of any source geospatial data and to develop a conceptual framework for resolving those described rights management issues raised in relation to repositories.
