From kaitlin at creativecommons.org Tue Nov 3 13:37:05 2009
From: kaitlin at creativecommons.org (Kaitlin Thaney)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:37:05 -0500
Subject: [sc-announce] "Ontology sharing and copyright considerations" -
Science Commons blog
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Ontology sharing and copyright considerations
November 3rd, 2009by
Kaitlin Thaney
Important (and exciting) news in the world of shared vocabularies at Science
Commons, a key component of our technical work to make knowledge sharing
more efficient.
As of last week, OWL 2 ? a standard
web ontology language ? was formally recommended by the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) as part of their Semantic Web
activity. Science Commons? Alan
Ruttenberghas
been diligently working with the OWL
working group specifying
OWL 2 at the W3C to push this recommendation through. (Ruttenberg is the
co-chair with Ian Horrocks at Oxford.) The W3C says that the transition to
OWL 2 is a reflection of user experience with OWL, and the need to enable
seamless integration and scalability.
>From the W3C?s announcement :
?[OWL 2] allows people to capture their knowledge about a particular domain
(say, energy or medicine) and then use tools to manage information, search
through it, and learn more from it. Furthermore, as an open standard based
on Web technology, it lowers the cost of merging knowledge from multiple
domains.?
Also, building off of our existing work around the application of copyright
licenses to content
and
data,
there is now a resource
availableat
sciencecommons.org that sheds light on copyright considerations for
ontologies. We have long been asked what is the best means to license (or
not) ontologies, a topic that?s not always easy to discern in terms of
applicable rights regimes.
The resource explores when copyright may apply to an ontology as well as a
number of other concerns regarding protection and the means to achieve that.
You can find this resource ? ?Ontology Copyright Licensing
Considerations??
in our Reading
Room .
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http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/11/03/ontology-sharing-and-copyright-considerations/
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Kaitlin Thaney
Program Manager
Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
http://creativecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
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