When negotiating the import of data from resources that are not CC0, it
would be very valuable to have a somewhat formal process to allow them to
declare that some portions of their databases may be imported into wikidata
and thus join its CC0 collection.
Does wikidata have anything like this in place? I think slight
modifications to the protocol for Commons [1] ought to be sufficient.
(Though I would like to avoid the backlog there that apparently is at 88
days now..).
As a specific example, we have informal (e.g. an email to us) permission to
import data from the Disease Ontology [2] and UniProt [3] but would like to
make those informal agreements 'official' and public. I suspect this will
be a very common situation going forward.
thoughts?
-Ben
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates
[2]
http://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/doid.html
[3]
http://www.uniprot.org