Helsinki University Library has published a license guide.

Shortly:

“In general, the University of Helsinki recommends CC BY – license for sharing publications, unless there are other recommendations by the publisher.”

“For sharing of research data The University of Helsinki recommends CC 0 – license, where the author gives up all copyrights in order to advance open science.”

“For sharing of source code the University of Helsinki recommends MIT- or GNU-GPL (v2) –licenses which have been developed for just this purpose”

Please, find further information from Open Access: License Guide: http://libraryguides.helsinki.fi/oa/eng/license

Coordinates of the next MILDRED User Group meeting are:

10:00 – 10:10 Coffee

10.10 – 10.20 Opening, prof. Mikko Tolonen

10:20 – 10:30 Introduction to the theme and method: Current obstacles in data-centric research, Aija Kaitera & Mari Elisa Kuusniemi

10:30 – 11:10 Workshop session, participants

11:10 – 11:20 Summary, Aija Kaitera & Mari Elisa Kuusniemi

11:20 – 11:55 MILDRED 2: Example and demo of the possible data service, Kimmo Koskinen & Ville Tenhunen

11:55 – 12:00 Next steps and closing, Eeva Nyrövaara

Welcome!

First things first. Next the MILDRED User group meeting will take place on Wednesday 1st February 2017 from 10 to 12. The venue will be Biomedicum Helsinki 1 (Haartmaninkatu 8),  Kokoushuone 3 (http://www.helsinki.fi/teknos/opetustilat/meilahti/h8/kok3.htm).

Last day to register is 26th January 2017 and you can do the registration here: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/76215/lomake.html

Then, some thoughts about licenses.

It is important to define terms and conditions of the data, codes, materials etc. before someone else going to use them. It makes life easier if users know these things.

Therefore we have thought that we describe principles of the the Project MILDRED licenses before we have services or softwares anywhere. Idea is that you can comment this proposal. The steering group of the project will make decisions later, after the user group have had a possibility to comment these things.

The proposal:

If there is not any legal restrictions or other powerful arguments to some other licenses, within the Project MILDRED will be used following licenses:

• Software codes created within the project: MIT (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
• Data, texts, presentations etc. created within the project: CC 4.0 BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and in Finnish https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.fi)
• Metadata: CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ and in Finnish https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.fi)

The legal restriction could be for example so called copyleft license or use of the commercially licensed software etc. The powerful argument could be also a will of the owner of the information or material.

We like to hear your opinion about this proposal. You can leave your comment to this blog or you can use the feedback form of the project: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/76062/lomake.html

EDIT: 21.12.2017 Venue and registration.

The Project Mildred had the user group meeting last Tuesday with nearly 20 participants from all campuses of the University of Helsinki. Main issue of the meeting was the user profiles and researchers need.

Open space session produced numbers of comments and ideas which are very useful for the project. On the behalf of the project managers of the project, I like to thank everyone their participation and discussions! Results are now in the wiki.

If you didn’t make the meeting, no worries. We have opened wiki page where you can find the material and leave you comment. You have to log in to the wiki with University’s credentials or HAKA credentials.

Here are links:

• Wiki page of the User Group
• Draft user profiles of the research data services
• User group 15.11.2016 meeting pages (incl. raw data of the open space session)