Great Britain Historical GIS (case study)
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OVERVIEW
This case study, commissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance as part of its IPR Toolkit is one of seven forming an analysis of publicly funded e-content initiatives, which demonstrate the flow of content, value and rights across the respective seven representatives of the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) sponsors. The IPR Case Studies report co-ordinated by NaomiKorn Consulting is addressed to senior decision makers across public-sector bodies and aims at providing a coherent account of best practices of managing publicly funded e-content. It is licenced for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.
Background
The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS), is a spatially-enabled database that documents and visualizes the changing human geography of Great Britain, mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801. The project is currently based at the University of Portsmouth, and is the provider of the Vision of Britain through time (VoB) website. The project is involved in the digitization of a wide range of geographic and demographic data that are included in the GBHGIS. The objective of the project is to make the data available to the widest possible range of users through a variety of channels and encourage their re-use in different contexts. For instance, the digitized and compiled data may be either downloaded from UKDA (The UK Data Archive) and EDINA’s (Edinburgh Data and Information Access) UKBORDERS (United Kingdom Boundary Outline and Reference Database for Education and Research Study) service or may be viewed on the Vision of Britain web site.
Key Content Features
- Data intensive content (data and data compilations)
- Maps and graphics
- Material from the 19th and the 20th century (material in the public domain)
Key Value Gains
- Through the VoB service the visibility and usability of data, especially for non expert users is increased
- By allowing the downloading of data in raw form (through UKDA and EDINA UKBORDERS), it is possible to link them with other related services (e.g. archives, other GIS services) and thus achieve their maximum utilisation.
- Different channels of making the data available serve educational and research objectives.
- As the access to the data becomes easier added cultural and historical value is provided to non-professionals (e.g. amateur local historians, lay users).
- The availability of data in different forms could potentially create a market for individuals interested in family and local history or location sensitive services.
Rights ownership and obtained permissions
- Most of the works used for the project are currently out of copyright, although some of the works will be protected by Crown Copyright.
- There are a variety of copyright owners within the VoB project. These include:
- The copyright ownership of Census data from 1961 to 2001 belongs to National Statistics, for England and Wales, and to the General Register Office, for Scotland. These agencies also supplied the VoB’s with detailed maps of modern census reporting areas.
- The copyright in some of the historical photographs used within the VoB belongs to English Heritage.
- The copyright in the text interpreting statistical themes belongs to Humphrey Southall 2003, 2004.
- The copyright in the maps created by the Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain belongs to L. Dudley Stamp/Geographical Publications Ltd, while the scanned images of these maps, for England and Wales, to the Environment Agency/DEFRA, and for Scotland to the Great Britain Historical GIS.
- The data used for the project have been collected for a period of about ten years. In this period, the data collection and compilation have been funded by a variety of projects and the individuals collecting and compiling the data have been employed by different academic institutions. As a result, there are potentially a number of rights holders for the data.
- Issues of institutional ownership and transfer of rights have been resolved in the following ways:
- By ensuring that the Principal Investigator , i.e. the person heading the research project obtains a licence from the academic researchers who hold copyright in the transcriptions.
- By assigning or licensing all copyright to an organization that exists irrespective of any project transformations.
Terms of Access and Use
- The content found on the VoB web site is not licensed to the end user under a specific licensing scheme. It only contains detailed copyright notices regarding each of its components. Consequently, the use of the content is governed by the rules of fair dealing as defined in the relevant legislation, i.e. content can be used for non commercial research or private study.
- The content made available through the UKDA and EDINA BORDERS services is licensed under the Census End User Licence (EUL). The key terms of this licence agreement are as follows:
- Data can only be used for personal, research, educational and non-commercial purposes.
- Registration isa requirement for using the content.
- The data cannot be further disseminated.
- Personal information must bekept confidential.
- Attribution and acknowledgement is made in accordance with the terms and conditions of the licence.
Links to IPR Toolkit Resources as PDFs
Background papers
Reports
Practical tools
3.4 Top Tips for Issuing Licences
3.5 Top Tips for Requesting Licences
3.8 Template Email Permissions Form
3.9 IPR Template Permission Letter
3.10 Rights Management Template
3.12 Model Contractual Clauses for Requesting Permission from Staff
3.13 Example Consortium Agreement
3.14 Model Contractual Clauses for Requesting Permission from Students/Volunteers
3.15 Model contractual clauses for requesting permission from freelancers/subcontractors
3.16 Template Terms and Conditions of Service
Template policy statements
2.1 Draft Institutional IPR Policy Statements
2.2 IPR and Licensing Blue Print for Funding Bodies and Recipients of Funding
Related Digipedia links
IPR policy statement for the public sector
Orphan works and risk management
Web 2.0 and legal issues factsheet
Further information
General resources
Intellectual Property Office: Overview of the legislative framework and policy issues/developments regarding Intellectual Property Rights
Office for Public Sector Information: Information about Crown Copyright material, click use licence for reusing Crown Copyright material and access to the consolidated copyright legislation.
British Library Business and IP Centre: Provision of resources, support and advice relating to the creation and exploitation of IP within a business context
Licensing schemes and open content licensing initiatives
Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)
Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS)
Resources for health professionals
Resources for schools, colleges and universities
JISC Digital Media Online Image Finding Tutorial: Interactive tool providing information about how to find images online which can be used with the least amount of restrictions
Web2Rights Project: JISC funded project providing interactive copyright and other legal issues tools, resources and charts for use by JISC funded projects
JISC Casper: Interactive tools and associated resources for dealing with copyright issues in schools and projects who are reusing content
JISC IPR and Web2.0 Animation: IPR and Web2.0 animation commissioned by JISC and built around the Web2Rights project deliverables
Becta: Information about IPR for schools
JISC IPR Consultancy: Briefing documents about IPR and monthly IPR Newsletter
JISC Open Content Licences Overview Paper: Overview paper providing guidance about the use of open content licences for JISC funded projects
JISC Model Licence Interactive: Interactive tool which provides an overview of the benefits of the JISC Model Licence
TrustDR Project: JISC funded project providing supporting documentation relating to the establishment of a digital rights management system for repositories
JISC Legal: Support for HEIs and FEIs on legal issues
OSS Watch: Support for HEIs and FEIs on open source licences
Resources for the cultural heritage sector
Collections Link: Comprehensive resources relating to IP and licensing for cultural heritage bodies
Harvested links
- Copyright Essentials
- A Collections Trust factsheet providing an introduction to copyright law for the non-specialist collections manager. [?]
- Training Course: Copyright Essentials
- This training course provided by Museums Galleries Scotland offers an introduction to the principles of copyright within the context of caring for collections. It offers basic and practical training, [?]
- New guide to copyright for cultural heritage organisations
- The Collections Trust is delighted to announce the publication of a new guide to copyright for cultural heritage organisations. [?]
- Collections Management Network website
- Collections Management Network (CMNetwork) is a consortium of consultants, advisers and trainers with expertise in collections management. We work together to provide practical, authoritative, cost ef [?] <span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1287584946184_396" />
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