[GOAL] [job] WikiFactMine: Open Access Wikimedian In Residence in Cambridge UK

[Heather Morrison]

>From a copyright perspective:

If work is published under CC-BY and subsequently released by a downstream re-user under CC-0, this is a breach of the requirement of attribution, isn't it?

CC licenses involve waiver of rights under copyright. Using CC-0 on other people's work involves asserting copyright in order to waive it. If this project is not intending to produce work under copyright it does not make sense to assert copyright.

Assuming that digitizing or digital manipulation of works invokes copyright is an expansion of copyright; this overall leads to more closure rather than open.

best,

Heather Morrison






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From: Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
Date: 2017-02-27 5:36 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <goal at eprints.org>
Subject: [GOAL] [job] WikiFactMine: Open Access Wikimedian In Residence in Cambridge UK

ContentMine[1] has an opportunity (details: http://contentmine.org/jobs) for a Wikimedian In Residence funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and working in the Moore Library at the University of Cambridge.

I am posting to this list because the position is possible because of the growing amount of Open Access (CC BY) literature in the bio-medical sciences. The Wikimedia Foundation has supported the development of technology to mine the whole Open Access biomedical literature (project: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ContentMine/WikiFactMine) and index it against Wikidata. The Wikimedian in Residence will develop the use of these tools and work with researchers and librarians and the Wikimedia Foundation.

The goal is to download every CC BY (or CC0) article from Europe PubMedCentral and index against the 25 million entries in Wikidata. Because the project uses resources on several machines, copyright violation can only be avoided through explicit licences allowing mass copying of articles.  All extracted data will be made permanently available under a CC0 licence, in repositories such as Zenodo.

[1] ContentMine is an Open-locked not-for-profit UK CLG.

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Peter Murray-Rust
Director ContentMine and Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK

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