1. Licence
management
for
Public
Sector
Informa4on
Vasily
Bunakov
and
Keith
Jeffery
(STFC)
CeDEM13,
Krems,
Austria,
22-­‐24
May
2013

2. ENGAGE
data
and
services
as
object
of
regula4on
• “Classical”
PSI
data
• Research
data
• Cultural
heritage
data
• Data
curated
by
user
communi4es
• Web
portal
• API
www.engage-­‐project.eu

3. Regula4on
variety
• Interna4onal
and
general
regula4on
PSI
Direc5ve
(2003).
Direc4ve
2003/98/EC
of
the
European
Parliament
and
of
the
Council
of
17
November
2003
on
the
re-­‐use
of
public
sector
informa4on.
PSI
Direc5ve
(2011).
Proposed
revision
of
the
Direc4ve
2003/98/EC
on
the
re-­‐use
of
public
sector
informa4on.
• Na4onal
and
domain
specific
regula4on
Laws,
direc4ves,
policies
• Regula4on
aimed
at
informa4on
re-­‐use
Legal
notes,
terms
and
condi4ons,
copyright,
data
licences

4. Re-­‐use
regula4on
structure
(example)
The structure of the World Bank legal notes

5. Seman4c
structure
of
a
regula4on
item
Regulation components of data.gouv.fr open licence

6. Challenges
of
regula4on
management
in
e-­‐Infrastructure
• Quan4ty
• Diversity
• Updates
• Specific
clauses
• Knowledge
representa4on
• Non-­‐human
agents
Analyze
Model
Implement
Monitor
Communicate

7. PSI
regula4on
diversity
Country Portal Licence
France Data.gouv.fr Licence Ouverte
United Kigdom Data.gov.uk Open Government Licence
Italy Dati.gov.it
Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non
commerciale 2.5 Italia (CC BY-NC 2.5)
Germany Govdata.de
Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung
Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung –
nicht kommerziell
Norway Data.norge.no Norsk lisens for offentlige data (NLOD)
Netherlands Data.overheid.nl
No specific common licence but a recommendation
for the agencies publishing data through the portal
to use the framework of the Open Government Act,
and to apply Creative Commons Zero of Public
Domain if any licence is desired at all
Spain Datos.gob.es
No specific licence but two parts in extensive legal
notes that cover data re-use and are based on
different pieces of Spanish national legislation
Belgium Data.gov.be
No specific common licence. Each public service or
government institution determines the terms and
conditions governing access to and use of its data
published through portal.

8. Special
clauses
(OECD
case)
• Cita4on
format
requirements
(4tle,
year,
...)
• Reference
requirements
(page
number
or
URL)
• Copyright
requirements
(rights
owner
explicitly
men4oned
and
approached)
• Presenta4on
requirements
(no
frames
or
other
visual
altering
tools)

9. Mee4ng
challenges

10. Analyze
regula4on...
Patterns of regulation
content and structure
Permission for commercial re-use
Permission for information transformation
Permission for information re-distribution
Requirement of attribution (due credits)
No responsibility for information re-use
Referring to national legislation
Patterns of regulation
representation
Metaphor of Document
Just Web links, no permanent identifiers
Common patterns of PSI regulation

11. Model
it...
• ccRel
-­‐
Crea4ve
Commons
Rights
Expression
Language
• ODRL
-­‐
Open
Digital
Rights
Language
• ADMS
-­‐
Asset
Descrip4on
Metadata
Schema
• XrML
-­‐
eXtensible
Rights
Markup
Language
• METSRights
-­‐
rights
management
extension
for
METS
metadata
• CERIF
-­‐
Common
European
Research
Informa4on
Format
• Harves4ng
protocols
• Rules
defini4on
languages

12. Design
and
apply
it...
• Supply
the
regula4on
document
and
let
the
user
determine
the
usage
condi4ons
• Try
to
interpret
the
legalis4c
document
using
intelligent
sogware
to
extract
the
first
order
logic
• Consciously
design
or
re-­‐engineer
pieces
of
regula4on
in
a
structured
manner,
and
supply
them
with
API
–
see
www.linkedcontentcoali4on.org

13. The
need
of
a
PSI
regula4on
framework
for
e-­‐Infrastructure
• Monitoring
and
update
of
na4onal
and
interna4onal
legisla4on:
laws,
direc4ves,
decisions
• Monitoring
and
update
of
granular
regula4on
on
data
re-­‐use:
licences,
terms
and
condi4ons
• Machine-­‐oriented
regula5on
modelling
and
other
informa4on
technology
• Standardiza4on
and
structured
communica4on

14. Thank
you!
www.engage-­‐project.eu