need to add a license field to metadata

[carueda]

In old system: mmisw/mmiorr#157

From [email protected] on July 27, 2009 15:57:36

Certain ontologies that have a known license type would benefit from a field
that allowed for the selection of open source / open content licenses. These
would likely come from an ontology, though it's unclear if one exists.

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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Carlos Rueda carueda@xxx wrote:
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Ideally, we would only use the external resource (dbpedia licenses list) to create the drop-down list with options for our ontology submitters. Unfortunately, the dbpedia resource is lacking some of the entries already found and, perhaps worse, it has some entries that do not correspond to licenses per se (*).

An initial approach is just to have a list of the specific dbpedia licenses we want to offer in the GUI (**).

As a way to capture that list of selected dbpedia entries, I've added a new column "dbpedia link" in our "licences" spreadsheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=thBpjuENRnAnkEXa6Y6i4EA&output=html So, we can continue updating the spreadsheet anyway (and with the dbpedia link where appropriate). With some help, we can try to include the missing licenses/tags in wikipedia so the dbpedia resource gets updated as John described.

(*) http://dbpedia.org/page/Creative_Commons_licenses is particularly curious; it is not a specific license but talks about the CC family of licenses. It's unclear how this entry can be applied.

(**) BTW, the user can use the drop-down list to select the license but also will be able to specify the license directly in the corresponding field.