Is it possible to modify camtrap licenses? (IPT)

Data Publishing
1

We are deploying our own instance of IPT 3.2.1, we were able to modify the licenses following the documentation Applying a License to a Dataset :: GBIF IPT User Manual with no issues, however, we tried modifying the camtrap licenses but we realized the field itself looks to be defined to hold only GBIFs licenses, we even tried modifying the values but we got the message: “Data license must be GBIF compatible: CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-NC.”. This means that camtrap licenses are not customizable or am I just doing it wrong? Thanks in advance!!

2

Are you preparing a Camtrap DP dataset? If so, you would share the license of the media under the license scope in the metadata (the JSON file). You can see the technical information here: Metadata - Camtrap DP. In practice, it would look like this in the datapackage.json:

  "licenses" : [ {
    "name" : "CC-BY-4.0",
    "scope" : "data"
  }, {
    "name" : "CC-BY-4.0",
    "scope" : "media"
  } ]

In the IPT, you choose licenses under the ‘Basic metadata’ section:

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And media licenses do have more options than the three options for data licenses.

3

So I can add more licenses to the dropdown as long as they are part of the Open Definition license ID. A custom license would prevent me from publish to Gbif I assume?

4

You would have to choose one of the licenses available in the media license dropdown, which should cover the Open Definition license ID options. Media licenses can be more restrictive than the three record licenses, but do not restrict sharing media with GBIF. It informs data users how they should use the media associated with the record (see this FAQ).