[OAI-general] concerns about new OAIster terms/conditions

[Simeon Warner]

A key reason that the OAI-PMH was restricted to metadata was that we
felt we could share metadata without too much legal concern. Even
so, the e-prints schema/guideline was created and is widely used to
express policies for reuse of metadata (and the data it describes):

http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-eprints.htm

It seems that OCLC's rather heavy handed license request flies in the
face of accepted practices within the community. I wonder whether OCLC
will remove all existing content from OAIster until people agree to
the new license? (Hopefully revised to something more rational.)

Cheers,
Simeon


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:46:31PM +0100, Leslie Carr wrote:
> On 22 Sep 2009, at 20:50, Hagedorn, Kat wrote:
>
>> OCLC's intent is to do what we did at University of Michigan, harvest the
>> metadata. It is not the intent to go beyond that to capture the content
>> itself.
>
> The fact that that's exactly what they say they are going to do we can 
> probably pass off as a consequence of having a more pro-active marketing 
> department than legal department (thank heavens!)
>
> However, that sort of cast-iron legal guarantee cannot confidently be 
> granted to a third party for even the metadata.
> --
> Les Carr