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Text object metadata
I find that this text object metadata scheme might be useful for describing corpora.
https://www.loc.gov/standards/textMD/
I should look at these auxiliary METS extensions and include them in OLAC discussions
Rights Metadata and Rights Vocabularies
In the fall term of 2022 I took a course on Metadata at UNT. In that course I encountered an interesting Rights Metadata schema create my the California Digital Libraries Project called copyrightMD. This schema is interesting because it articulates where a resource was created.
his is currently on the web here:
https://cdlib.org/groups/rights-management-group-copyrightmd/
But that website seems to not render 100% so I looked it up in the Internet Archive here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20220119153216mp_/https://cdlib.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/copyrightMD_user_guidelines.pdf
CopyrightMD Has been mentioned in the following academic publications:
- https://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/intrometadata/rights.pdf
- Developing a Rights Metadata Dictionary for Digital Surrogates https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19386380903095024
I find the list of rights metadata schemas list in the library guide at UCF very helpful:
https://guides.ucf.edu/metadata/adminMetadata
For rights metadata, the common metadata standards such as Dublin Core include a “rights” field. Any known intellectual property rights held for the data, including access rights and rights holder, can be specified in that field. Some digital repositories provide an opportunity to assign a Creative Commons license to the materials or datasets deposited in the repository.
There are other Right Metadata standards including CopyrightMD, METSRights, ONIX For Publications Licenses, Open Digital Rights Language and XrML.
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC_REL
However I found that the MEts Rights schema was not linked appropriately:
https://www.loc.gov/standards/rights/
https://www.loc.gov/standards/rights/METSRights.xsd
https://www.loc.gov/standards/rights/2005version/METSRights.xsd
I personally find the statements at rightsstatements.org to be limiting:
https://rightsstatements.org/en/
The educational use permitted one is very confusing: https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/?language=en
Note that Creative Commons used to have one like this but they did away with the whole educational use series of licenses, but I can't find them at the moment. I would have thought they might have been here: https://creativecommons.org/retiredlicenses/
http://web.archive.org/web/20100101121150/https://learn.creativecommons.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/20080714211609/http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8235
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/I_want_to_make_sure_that_the_OER_I_create_are_used_only_for_truly_educational_purposes._That_means_I_should_limit_my_works_to_%E2%80%9Ceducational_use_only,%E2%80%9D_right%3F
Creative Commons Welcomes David Wiley as Educational Use License Project Lead
Real problems with academics using CC licenses:
https://smcclatchy.github.io/exp-design/LICENSE.html
Copyfraud: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228219706_Copyfraud August 2005New York University law review (1950) 81(3)
See also: 10.5334/jcms.1021217
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275440056_The_Public_Domain_vs_the_Museum_The_Limits_of_Copyright_and_Reproductions_of_Two-dimensional_Works_of_Art
see also: 10.1002/meet.14504701045
see also: 10.2139/ssrn.1806809
see also: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308339459_Museums_Property_Rights_and_Photographs_of_Works_of_Art_Why_Reproduction_Through_Photograph_Should_Be_Free
see also: 10.1515/9783110732009-010 — 8 Rights Issues in the Digitization of Library Collections
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OER Notes:
U.S. Department of Education Open Licensing Rule Now in Effect
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_and_Open_Educational_Resources
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/OER_Project
Data Sharing History in Linguistics
In their article: Burke, Mary, Hannah Tarver, Mark Edward Phillips, and Oksana Zavalina. 2022. “Using Existing Metadata Standards and Tools for a Digital Language Archive: A Balancing Act.” The Electronic Library ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print). doi:10.1108/EL-02-2022-0028.
Burke et al state the following:
Most data collected by linguists was not traditionally shared, other than through secondary resources (e.g. journal articles, conference presentations, etc.). Source data was collected by researchers and shared within a team of researchers or with individual linguists upon request.
This framing of the narrative suggests that linguists have always been hoarders. I wonder if this is really true. For example, another narrative is possible. That is, that somewhere around the 1970/1980s when the "PhD explosion" (radical increase in awarded PhDs) and the "Publish or Parish" phenomena started to interact that we start to see larger projects and also hoarding of "data". Prior to the 1950 we see lots of collections of anthropological (including audio) materials deposited in archives. So, I wonder, is the lack of sharing resources and the lack of archiving resources actually a peculiarity of the baby-boomer generation?
This made me want to know when the publish-or-parish and metric based tenure process started to squeeze candidates.
https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/135964/when-did-publish-or-perish-first-become-a-thing?newreg=b9990da99b534ef194870e4878dca8a0
https://www.elgaronline.com/display/9781786434920/chapter01.xhtml
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-020-03786-x
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish#Origin
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3999612
In the process I discovered this interesting software:
https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish/windows
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Stack Exchange for Language Resource Archiving
I wonder if it would be productive to have language archive discussions via stack exchange. OLAC implementation, cataloging, and indexing discussions.
https://area51.stackexchange.com/faq
1000 questions in 6 months with 70% answers... that means 6 people asking one question a day for 6 months. Do we have that many questions? Do we have that big of a community?
OLAC language view pages
There are several views in the OLAC website. Each with specific purposes.
- The language page view is functionally defined here:
https://github.com/olac/olac/blob/89bbf36ddd6eb0863cf4f4e927277425f609db0f/wiki/LanguagePages.wiki - Implemented in code here:
https://github.com/olac/olac/blob/89bbf36ddd6eb0863cf4f4e927277425f609db0f/web/language.php#L92 - And renders like this:
OLAC query needs
The following example points to the need for users to be able to sort collection by license, relationships, and extent.
I am looking for large spoken corpora of spontaneous speech in any
language (ideally > 100 hours) with a time-aligned transcription. I am
not committed to a specific genre as long as it is spontaneous speech.
It should be available as a download (for research, no commercial use),
ideally free but I may be able to pay for it as well.
Dublin Core Uses
There are several Dublin Core Uses... but what are the models behind them? Are they the same? Are they different? If they are different then does this mean that Dublin Core is more like a brand name than a metadata standard?
RSS: https://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/dcterms/
HTML: https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcq-html/; https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dc-html/
HTML: https://www.hjp.at/doc/rfc/rfc2731.html ; https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt
Note that in https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt they use DC1.0
When another application profile "borrows" the DC property/term/element... how do they borrow it? https://exiv2.org/tags-xmp-dwc.html