Richard Ferrers

Licensing Data for Sharing and Reuse

ANDS Data Specialist | UTAS ANDS Liaison

29 June 2016

The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) makes Australia’s research data assets more valuable for researchers, research institutions and the nation.

What is a licence?

• A licence sets out how data can be (re)used and attributed

• All Australian data intended for reuse should have a licence

What is a licence?

Note: change from

“Open Data” to…

What is a licence?

Why apply a licence?

Use a licence to tell others how they can legally share your work

Promotes re-use and enables collaboration

Gives the owner controland credit

The Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research: "Researchers have a responsibility to their colleagues and the wider community to disseminate a full account of their research as broadly as possible”. Section 4.4

In terms of research data, the best way to achieve this objective is to license the data (using AusGOAL) and to place it in a publicly-accessible repository (along with appropriate metadata etc).

If you don't license the data, no-one else can use it; it's that simple!

A message for researchers

ANDS - Copyright, data and licensing

http://ands.org.au/guides/copyright-and-data-awareness.html

AusGOAL licensing framework

AusGOAL contains eight licensing options: Six Australian Creative Commons (CC) Version

4.0 licences Restrictive Licence Template (RLT) BSD 3-Clause Software Licence

ANDS endorses AusGOAL

Wide support by Federal and State Governments

http://www.ausgoal.gov.au

Licensing and data

NOT FOR DATA

Slide is courtesy of Baden Appleyard – Director of AusGOAL

https://learn.canvas.net/courses/4/pages/compatibility-of-creative-commons-licenses?module_item_id=52575

Creative Commons Licenses compatibility

How open can I be?

Consent? (For what?)

Potential for harm/discrimination?

Data modified to address identification, limit harm?

HREC approval

Spectrum of Openness

Open Closed

Screenshot from http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/

Conditional access

Open Access vs Conditions to access

‘Open / Shared / Closed: The world of data’CC-BY-SA Open Data Institute link

https://vimeo.com/125783029

When CC licence not suitable

Restrictive Licences can ‘bespoke’ your conditions of access and use

http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/restrictive-licence-template

*Check with your DM support, School/Department/Institution to see if one already exists for you to repurpose

How do I apply a licence?

You must ‘own’ the data to apply the licence

Look at your institution/s IP policies

When partnering: agree – before collecting the data – who can apply the licence and what that licence will be

Include this info in HREC application

http://www.ands.org.au/guides/sensitivedata

How do I apply a licence?

• Just apply the marking (image) and/or statement

• http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads

• http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/sample-copyright-notices

• Make it visible on the document, repository record, and/or attached to the data

<a rel="license"

href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img

alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0"

src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/80x15.png"

/></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license"

href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative

Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.

Take away

• Take control! Be clear about who may reuse your data and for what purpose

• Where no licence is applied, uncertainty may lead to no reuse or inappropriate use

• Ensure you get the attribution you deserve

• Conditional access is a good option for sensitive health data

Gerry Ryder, ANDS e-RSA Seminar, Mar 26, 2015

Three Licensing Examples

IMAS at UTAS

Foley Collection: Victoria Uni

Australian Policy Online: Swinburne University

Data Specialist

richard.ferrers@ands.org.au

+61 3 990 20569

Richard Ferrers

With the exception of logos, third party images or where otherwise indicated, this

work is licensed under the Creative Commons Australia Attribution 3.0 Licence.

ANDS is supported by the Australian

Government through the National Collaborative

Research Infrastructure Strategy Program.

Monash University leads the partnership with

the Australian National University and CSIRO.

Thanks to Kathryn Unsworth, Sarah Olsen, Gerry Ryder ANDS.