Publication Date:
2023-11-15
Description:
Sharing data - arrival time readings, earthquake parameters, waveforms and further derived products - has for many decades been key to the scientific advancement of seismology and our understanding of the Earth. The establishment of data centers, from institutional to global, that receive, archive, curate and make accessible large volumes of seismological data, following community standards and best practices, was a logical consequence. IASPEI, with its commissions, evolved as a de-facto standards body for seismological data, governed by the community of data providers and users alike.However, conditions of use for these shared data did not receive much attention by data providers, distributors, and groups working on the definition of standards of data and services. If mentioned at all, generic statements on allowed use were provided somewhere on websites that offered access, often declaring ‘only for scientific/academic purposes’ or ‘not for commercial purposes’. Driven by the desire or requirement to improve FAIRness of our data, better understand data usage and adapt to technological changes, and support open science, putting proper licenses on data and metadata has now become a significant topic.In this presentation we look at current practices and evolving ideas regarding application of licenses to the holdings of seismological data centers, covering waveforms, earthquake parameters, and further derived products, also including views from other geoscience domains. The relation to (legal) copyright and intellectual property issues, local/national licensing regulations that may hinder a globally uniform approach, and downstream implications for citation, attribution and general re-use of data will also be addressed.
Language:
English
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
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