CanWIN offers a selection of licenses when uploading datasets or publications to the Data Catalogue. Each license places different restrictions on the user's abilities to utilize the content they download from your pages or the Data Catalogue in general. Read the table below for more information on the licenses CanWIN offers to users. Additionally, if you would like to request a DOI, but your publication or data cannot be released until a specific date, you can utilize our embargo option to specify when your metadata can be shared.
| Name | Code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International | CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 | You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. |
| Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International | CC BY-SA 4.0 | You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. |
| Creative Commons Attribution- 4.0 International | CC BY 4.0 | You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. |
| Creative Commons Attribution- No-Derivatives 4.0 International | CC BY-ND 4.0 | Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. |
| Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. |
| Open Government Licence 2.0 – Canada | OGL-Canada-2.0 | You are free to: Copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the Information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose. |
| Open Government Licence v2.0 | OGL-UK-2.0 | You are free to: copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information; adapt the Information; exploit the Information commercially and non-commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application. |
| Other (Not Open) | User provides a licence. Not open access, only metadata viewable. | |
| Other (Open) | User provides a licence. Open access. |
CanWIN provides a default Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License if you do not provide a specific license to your content, highlighted by the red boxes in the image below.
Terms of Access and Use
CanWIN's Terms of Access (TOA) can provide users with additional acknowledgements, credits, and constraints on the use of their data. Adding to the TOA, highlighted by the blue boxes in the image below, allows for further governance of how your data is used. This provides additional assurance, especially when dealing with secondary use of sensitive data.
The Terms of Use (TOU) outlines how users should access and use the content downloaded from the CanWIN site.
TOA/TOU statements reiterate that users must follow the uses outlined by the license applied to the data, and provides best practices for citing the materials. When you upload data to the site, you may also provide your own terms of use, provided they do not conflict with the license they are sharing the data under.
CanWIN provides default TOA and TOU statements, highlighted by the yellow and green boxes in the image below.
