Licensing information in datasets metadata

[rbeucher]

Hi All,

First of all, thanks for putting the ILAMB-data together, that's a great ressource.

I am working on some use cases for the ACCESS / CABLE community here in Australia.
One of my TO-Dos is to make ILAMB and the ILAMB datasets available at NCI.

I looked at the datasets and could not find information on licensing in the metadata.
Is it recorded somewhere?

R

[nocollier]

We do not record the licensing information in the meta-data but we could. We record the publication/DOI reference for the datasets. In the past I have not paid close attention to the license information--we have been perhaps satisfied that no one is complaining.

Ultimately I would like not to re-host data at all. I am looking at using intake to create catalogs which point to original sources instead/in addition to what we provide.

[rbeucher]

I'm also looking at intake. Would be curious to know what your thoughts are for ILAMB.
Happy to help!

[nocollier]

I am at the 'how in the world does this work and what can do with it' stage. The only way I know how is to try things out. Check out this demo with notes:

https://github.com/nocollier/intake-ilamb/blob/main/demo.py

I think ultimately it would be nice to provide a catalog of our source datasets. We often regrid or only use part of the dataset. We also have the problem that because our data is so easy to get a hold of, researchers use it when more up to date data is available (say, Fluxnet2015). Using these catalogs would give the original datasets some better visibility/utility.

I am very happy to iterate with you on it!

[rbeucher]

Thanks @nocollier, I'll have a look at your notes and will get back to you.

[nocollier]

Realized we never resolved this. Is it sufficient that we provide pointers to original sources (DOI usually) where you can look up licensing?

[rbeucher]

I am going to need the licensing information if I want to add the catalog to NCI. I'll start working on this.