Re: [rda-legalinterop-ig] Legal Interoperability Call - NEXT CALL 2 December (15.00 CET / 14.00 UTC / 9am Eastern)

Donat: agreed to circulate a short summary of the situation with the putative PLOS article involving copyrighted images, as data essential for biodiversity studies. This may become a case study on which this group might work?
An important component in charting the worlds living species are scientific taxonomic publications. They are unique in science because they are quasi legal documents: Making new names for new discovered species available is ruled by Codes (Botanical, Fungi, Bacteria, Virus, Animals) that among prescribe a description in a scientific publication, and for electronic publication specifically in PDF format in plants, animals, fungi.
They are highly structured which enables to model them and write XML schemas/DTD/tag suits. Taxpub is such an example and an extension of the Journal Archival Tag Suit from NLM. This is already used to describe some 5-10% of the species.
Another element are the figures included in these articles. They are there to make the species identifiable, comparable with other species by comparing the illustrations with a corpus of other illustrations of related species. These illustrations are highly standardized for specific organismic groups. Increasingly the are replaced by standard photography, in the best case taken by machines to get as close as possible to even machine identify species.
In the paper referred to above, available as preprint in bioRxiv http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/11/087015 Egloff et al make the case that these figures are data, thus are not copyrighted and can be used (of course they need to be cited, but this is not a legal issue). This enables to extract illustrations and make them accessible and citable one by one. See eg https://zenodo.org/record/167252#.WC8nwPorLAQ, including the citation of the source (a closed access article) and other related identifiers of data extracted from the article.
Egloff et al submitted the article to PLoS Biology and became the following answer concerning copyright and licensing.
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IMPORTANT: Another major issue with your manuscript, which you will need to address, is that many of your figure panels are incompatible with our CC BY licence (http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/s/licenses-and-copyright). We fully recognise that the point of your article is to challenge whether those images should be subject to any sort of protection, but we don’t think that it should also immediately set out to test that case by re-publishing the images under CC BY terms. To our mind, many of the images are tangential to the piece (which would probably be perfectly comprehensible without any of the images!), and the article could be adequately illustrated with 5 or 6 CC BY or public domain images, rather than the current 17 figures, many of which are copyrighted.
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Our immediate question is now how to deal with this situation. Gail had some ideas in this respect…
It is clear, that only all these illustrations will be available, how powerful this would be to identify live on Earth. A glimpse on how this might look like is here http://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?q=Mydidae which is unlike any other image website based on specimens identified by specialists, and thus very authoritative. By adding to these images all the illustrations that have been published adds another layer of authority.
Donat
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Subject: [rda-legalinterop-ig] Re: [rda-legalinterop-ig] Legal Interoperability Call - NEXT CALL 2 December (15.00 CET / 14.00 UTC / 9am Eastern)
Dear all,
Thanks for you participation today in what was an extremely interesting discussion, even if we did not address the immediate tasks for the group directly.
I noted the following actions (Bob will circulate any that I have missed).
Donat: agreed to circulate a short summary of the situation with the putative PLOS article involving copyrighted images, as data essential for biodiversity studies. This may become a case study on which this group might work?
All: we agreed that the next call will be in two weeks, at the usual time of 1 4.00 UTC on Friday 2 December.
Asha: please can you circulate the call details and a calendar file as soon as possible so that people have this in their diaries well in advance. I will not be able to attend that call, so I hope that Asha will be available to initiate it.
With very best wishes,
Simon.
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On 18 Nov 2016, at 10:42, alaw <***@***.***> wrote:
Dear All,
Please find below a gotomeeting details and a calendar invite to add the same to your calendar tool. Meeting time is 15.00 CET / 14.00 UTC / 9am Eastern today.
Also, see Bob’s message below:
All--
We had a short but productive telecon this morning with Christoph, Bernard and myself. I am pleased to report that Christoph has agreed to take on serving as a co-chair! Thanks from all of us, Christoph!
Christoph also populated the google document with an initial set of contacts drawn from the Force11 list, linking names and organizations and doing some basic clean-up and organization. We agreed on the following process to move ahead:
1) We'll stick to one sheet for the moment with an Organizational column that allows us to easily sort by category.
2) Institutions can be listed more than once if there are particular groups or centers within them (identified in column B, level 2) that should be categorized differently and/or contacted directly.
3) If you know of an appropriate individual or group within one of the institutions listed, please replace the existing name if there is one in columns H and I, and add their e-mail and title in columns L and M, respectively.
4) Please review the entire list and fill in any contacts that you feel would be appropriate recipients of the endorsement requests. Also add any additional organizations and contacts that you think should be contacted.
5) Once we have all shared contact info for the organizations we're familiar with, we'll assess those that have no contact info and try to find volunteers to dig up the highest priority ones from online sources.
Christoph, Bernard, please chime in if I've forgotten anything.
Any other suggestions on how to facilitate this would be welcome.
I hope more members can make the telecon next Friday at 1500 CET/0900 EST. It would be good if you could at least start looking through the list befoe then. Here's the link again:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yZJls_npD4ojsEjwfnp12QUx2spzB7Md...
Have a good weekend! Cheers, Bob
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