Validate an ELG compatible LT service or an LRT hosted in ELG at legal level¶
You can access the validation forms as described here.
When you are at the backend administration pages click on Legal validations
to view the list of metadata records that have been assigned to you.
Click on one of the metadata records to access the validation form. On this form, you can click on “DOWNLOAD” to download the uploaded files and “VIEW ON SITE” to view the metadata record.
Please, check the value(s) of the Licence
element on the metadata record to identify potential legal issues, such as:
if the LRT comes from a pilot project, whether it fulfils the legal oblications, i.e. that it has been assigned an open licence, or, at least, a licence that allows free use for academic and research purposes
in the case of standard licences, please make sure that the licence name and URL is the one from the ELG list of licences
for non standard licences, a unique human readable name is recommended; in any case, the licence URL must link to a page that contains the licensing terms for the item
for newly published items, recommend the use of a standard open licence and appropriate to the data type (e.g. Creative Commons for data resources, open source code licences for software)
in case of LRTs with multiple licensing terms (e.g. for commercial and non-commercial use, cf. https://live.european-language-grid.eu/catalogue/#/resource/service/corpus/2540), that the licences are consistently used
in case of LRTs that combine different resource types (e.g. a lexicon or corpus available via an i/f, or a tool that incorporates models or grammars), it’s possible that the LRT is available with different licences for each resource type (e.g. one licence for the data and another one for the software). In this case, the licences must appear on the same distribution.
If you are satisfied, set the value of Legally valid
to Yes
and click on “Save”.
If not, add your comments and recommendations at the Review comments
field and set the value of Legally valid
to No
and click on “Save”, as below:
The provider will be notified by email (containing the review comments) in order to update the record. Once finished, the provider will re-submit the record for publication and you will be notified to perform the validation again.
Please, keep in mind that an item is published only when it has been approved at all validation levels (technical, metadata and legal).
Note
This section is under development and continuously updated with new information. The forms included in the current release are implemented with Django. New forms will be provided later.