This paper discusses the problem of lack of clear licensing and transparency of usage terms and conditions for research metadata. Making research data connected, discoverable and reusable are the key enablers of the new data revolution in research. We discuss how the lack of transparency hinders discovery of research data and make it disconnected from the publication and other trusted research outcomes. In addition, we discuss the application of Creative Commons licenses for research metadata, and provide some examples of the applicability of this approach to internationally known data infrastructures.
@article{arxiv.1609.05700,
title = {Assigning Creative Commons Licenses to Research Metadata: Issues and Cases},
author = {Marta Poblet and Amir Aryani and Paolo Manghi and Kathryn Unsworth and Jingbo Wang and Brigitte Hausstein and Sunje Dallmeier-Tiessen and Claus-Peter Klas and Pompeu Casanovas and Victor Rodriguez Doncel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.05700},
year = {2016}
}
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9 pages. Submitted to the 29th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2016), Nice (France) 14-16 December 2016