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Data Licensing - a Discussion of Alternative Licenses

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Marty Downs

Marty Downs

Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Office

Marty manages the Network Office of the Long Term Ecological Research Network, coordinating scientific synthesis, education, and engagement activities for 28 research sites in every major U.S. biome.

Since 2005, she has managed collaboration, communications, and outreach in environmental and public health organizations, including Brown University’s Environmental Change Initiative, the New England Aquarium, and the Nature Conservancy, where she led the Science Impact Project, a professional development program for TNC scientists. As a science journalist, she has written for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Technology Review, the news section of Science, and produced news and commentary for public radio. Marty began her career as an ecologist, investigating plant-soil-atmosphere interactions in temperate forests, subarctic forests, and arctic tundra. Use ORCID to view her research publications.

Marty earned her B.S. in Natural Resources from Cornell University and her M.S. in Science Journalism from Boston University.

Katie Fortney

Katie Fortney

California Digital Library

Katie Fortney is the Copyright Policy & Education Officer at California Digital Library. Katie provides the UC campuses with educational resources and policy guidance on copyright and rights-management issues, particularly those related to the CDL’s scholarly research and publishing services (like eScholarship) and special collections access platforms (like Calisphere). She’s a recovering lawyer and enjoys supporting her library colleagues with lawyer-to-librarian translation services. Before joining CDL she worked at the UCSC library as a science librarian and instruction librarian, while also pitching in with copyright issues for the Grateful Dead Archive Online.
The selection of licenses for data and metadata hosted in repositories, shared by researchers, and reused by end users necessarily reflects an attempt to balance a variety of interests. This DataONE Community Call will bring together the community and a group of invited participants to discuss the lessons learned and decisions made in selecting data licenses for use in a variety of contexts. Read more
The selection of licenses for data and metadata hosted in repositories, shared by researchers, and reused by end users necessarily reflects an attempt to balance a variety of interests. A sample of these interests includes researcher interest in receiving proper attribution for their work in creating data, sponsor interests in maximizing the impact of the support they provide, repository interests in having the necessary rights to manage and provide access to data and metadata they host, and end user interests in being able to use the data they find with minimal restrictions and requirements. This DataONE Community Call will bring together the community and a group of invited participants to discuss the lessons learned and decisions made in selecting data licenses for use in a variety of contexts.
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