Copyright - A collection of legal rights that attach to an original work when it is created. Copyright allows the copyright owner to control certain acts to do with their work (e.g. copying) and to prevent others from using the protected material without permission.
Copyright licence – The means by which a copyright owner can grant permission to others to exercise one or more of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights in relation to a copyright work.
Creative Commons licence – A standard-form licence that gives end-users rights in relation to a work, subject to certain conditions as selected by the author. The rights given are to copy, distribute, display and perform the work. The conditions that may be imposed are: attributing the work to the author (this condition is present in all Creative Commons licences); non-commercial use only; non-derivative works only; or derivative works can be made but only if they are licensed under an identical Creative Commons Licence.
Data – This term can refer to research results, facts, and statistical or survey information, including text, numbers, images, audio and video recordings, software, animations, metadata and model simulations. In the digital context, “data” refers to any information that can be stored in digital form.
Dataset - A compiled collection of data, which may be collected from diverse sources and be in different formats.
Database - A collection of data and datasets, often compiled from a range of sources and usually organised to permit data to be readily retrieved, managed and updated. Typically databases involve software programs which enable the data to be collected, copied, stored, retrieved and distributed.
Frameworks – In the context of auPSI, legal frameworks govern how PSI can be managed and shared in accordance with contractual obligations, copyright and any other rights granted or restrictions imposed by law.
Open access (OA) – Open access aims to disseminate knowledge and materials broadly and freely across the internet, and in doing so remove most of the traditional access restrictions to these materials, such as economic and geographical barriers.
Public Sector Information (PSI) – Information that has been produced by, or is owned, controlled and held by, the public sector (i.e. the government). Wikipedia defines “public sector” as:
The public sector is the part of economic and administrative life that deals with the delivery of goods and services by and for the government, whether national, regional or local/municipal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sector