Table 1
Initiative Categories.
| Standards | Tools | Community Initiatives |
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Table 2
Initiative Subcategories.
| Rights | Licensing | Metadata and Ontologies | Informational Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Commons | ||||
| Datasets Licensing Project | ||||
| DataTags | ||||
| The Data Use Ontology | ||||
| DCC’s How to License Research Data | ||||
| FAIRsharing.org | ||||
| The FDP Data Transfer and Use Agreement Pilot | ||||
| Legal Assessment Tool (LAT) | ||||
| Linked Content Coalition | ||||
| The Neurona Data Protection Ontology | ||||
| ONIX-PL | ||||
| Open Data Commons | ||||
| Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) | ||||
| The Open Government License | ||||
| The (Re)Usable Data Project | ||||
| Research Data Alliance | ||||
| RightsDeclarationMD Extension Schema | ||||
| RightsStatements.org | ||||
| ShareDB: A Licensing Model & Ecosystem for Data Sharing | ||||
| W3C Permissions & Obligations Expression |
Figure 1
Timeline of Initiatives.
Table 3
Directory (Version 1.0).
| Initiatives | Sub-Categorie | Date Initiated | Founded By | Current URL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standards | Creative Commons | Licensing, Rights | 2001 | Lawrence Lessig | https://creativecommons.org/ |
| Open Data Commons | Licensing, Rights | 2007 | Open Knowledge Foundation | https://opendatacommons.org/ | |
| The Open Government License | Licensing, Rights | 2010 | UK National Archives | http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ | |
| RightsStatements.org | Rights | 2015 | DPLA and Europeana | http://rightsstatements.org/en/ | |
| Linked Content Coalition | Rights, Metadata & Ontolgoies | 2010 | European Publisher’s Council | http://www.linkedcontentcoalition.org/ | |
| The Data Use Ontology | Rights, Metadata & Ontolgoies | 2017 | Global Alliance for Genomics and Health | https://github.com/EBISPOT/DUO | |
| The Neuron a Ontology | Rights, Metadata & Ontolgoies | 2008 | S21 sec security company and the Institute of Law and Technology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | N/A | |
| W3C Permissions & Obligations Expression | Rights, Licensing, Metadata & Ontolgoeis | 2016 | W3C | https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/wiki/Main Page | |
| ONIX-PL | Licensing, Metadata & Ontologies | 2008 | Digital Library Federation’s Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI) and EDItEUR/NISO | http://www.editeur.org/21/ONIX-PL/ | |
| RightsDeclaration MD Extension Schema | Rights, Metadata & Ontolgoies | 2001 | Digital Library Foundation for digital library objects | https://www.loc.gov/standards/rights/METSRights.xsd | |
| Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) | Rights, Metadata & Ontologies | 2001 | W3C Permissions & Obligations Expression Working Group | https://www.w3.org/community/odrl/ | |
| Tools | ShareDB: A Licensing Model and Ecosystem for Data Sharing | Licensing | 2016 | Drexel University’s Metadata Research Center, MIT, Brown University | https://cci.drexel.edu/mrc/rescarch/a-licensing-model-and-ecosystem-for-data-sharing/ |
| DataTags | Rights | 2015 | Harvard’s Dataverse | https://datatags.org/ | |
| Legal Assessment Tool (LAT) | Informational Resource, Licensing | 2016 | BioMedBridges | N/A | |
| Community Initiaves | Research Data Alliance | Rights, Licensing, Metadata & Ontolgoeis | 2013 | European Commission, the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Australian Government’s Department of Innovation | https://www.rd-a1liance.org/ |
| Datasets Licensing Project | Licensing, Metadata & Ontologies | 2017 | Jisc, The University of Glasgow, and CREATe | https://datasetlicencing.wordpress.com/ | |
| DCC’s How to License Research Data | Informational Resource, Licensing, Metadata & Ontologies | 2014 | Digital Curation Centre | http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/license-research-data | |
| The (Re)Usable Data Project | Informational Resource, Licensing | 2017 | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Biomedical Data Translator and the Monarch Initiative | http://reusabledata.org/ | |
| FAIRsharing.org | Informational Resource, Metadata & Ontologies | 2009 | University of Oxford e- Research Centre | https://fairsharing.org/ | |
| The Federal Demonstration Partnership: Data Transfer and Use Pilot | Informational Resource, Licensing | 2017 | The Federal Demonstration Partnership | http://thefdp.org/default/committees/research-compliance/data-stewardship/ |