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Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, and her DCC colleague Sarah Jones will facilitate the panel on Developing Services to Support Research

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I was at the Sun Preservation and Archiving SIG meeting in Malta a couple of weeks ago, a very interesting meeting indeed. The agenda and presentations are being mounted here. I’ll try to pick out some points that are worth briefly blogging about, if I can.

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This should probably be titled “are research datasets comprised of facts and does it matter?”. It certainly does appear to matter whether datasets are comprised of facts, as in some legal jurisdictions facts are not copyrightable. If this is so, then without other protection such as the EU Database Right, or perhaps contract law, then there is no basis for licences (you can’t control someone else’s use unless you have a right to exercise that control).

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I'm not sure how much I should be blogging about this conference, given that the DCC ran it, and I chaired quite a few sessions etc. But since I've got the scrappy notes, I may try to turn some of them into blog posts. I've spotted blog postings from Kevin Ashley on da blog, and Cameron Neylon on Science in the Open, so far.

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