March 31, 2009 – Release 0.19 of Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org), containing over 12,000 high quality scalable vector graphics (SVG) files released into the public domain by over a 1000 artists, is now available for download and use. In celebration of this accomplishment, since OCAL’s last release happened in 2005, and March being 5th anniversary of the Open Clip Art Library (OCAL), the OCAL community set a goal to achieve 10,000 uploaded pieces of vector graphics. The project achieved this with the 10,000th submission from user Boobaloo who uploaded a graphic of an onion. The project congratulates Boobaloo for uploading the 10,000th upload. Also, project congratulates all artists who have uploaded in this anniversary OCAL10K sprint.
The project congratulates Nicu who personally crossed the 500 clip art upload barrier and now has 696 pieces of clip art uploaded to the system. All efforts towards the OCAL10K goal helped boost the site’s registrations and focus on releasing monthly packages once more to make this project a flowing river of clip art uploads. Since all contributions to the project are released into the public domain via the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication, anyone may use the Open Clip Art Library files for any use including collections, to make money, and to generate compositions. However, the community encourages anyone who uses the clip art to provide attribution back to the original clip art in the form of a link or to announce the use of the clip art in some form.
For the month of April in lead up to the annual Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 in Montreal, May 5-9, 2009, the Open Clip Art Library is setting a goal to achieve 12,000 pieces of uploaded clip art related to spring time, release the 0.20 package of clip art, and to update the site’s software to ccHost 5. The projects asks all who are software developers comfortable with PHP and MYSQL, to consider joining the project now ti help with three critical tasks of adding rendered thumbnails, update the site software to ccHost 5, and to help roll-out our latest software theme.
Highlight
- An offline HTML gallery to browse through the thumbnails of all clip arts
- Over 4,000 new cliparts as compared to release 0.18.
- 10,000th upload by Boobaloo: http://openclipart.org/media/files/boobaloo/11895
- Refocused Development around three critical tasks
- Call for Participation toward April goals of 12,000 uploads about spring
- Call for Participatoin towards Libre Graphics Meeting 2009
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- http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/
Downloads
- http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.bz2
- http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.gz
- http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.zip
Press Kit
Logos: http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/about
10,000th Upload
All Clip Art: http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/clip_art
About Open Clip Art Library
Founded in 2004 from Inkscape, the open source drawing tool, the Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration.
Help by submitting artwork today or join the IRC channel or the mailing list to find out about e.g. web development related contributions: http://openclipart.org/discussion
For More Information: http://www.openclipart.org.
Original announcement text: Announcement 0.19.
UPDATE: There is some confusion on the 10K vs 12K. Our 10K goal is clipart into our new system. There is still some old clipart that has not been transferred to our new system, but that is in our previous packages. Also, please help us DIGG this story.
Peder
One really bad thing, compared to the 0.18 release, is that the tarball/zip isn’t organised in categories but in the name of the creator.
So, if I want to import all computer related cliparts into an OpenOffice.org theme called “Computers” I have to wade through all the 12337 files and select them one by one.
I appreciate the fine work of the OpenCliparts community but this is really a bad decision that prevents me from using the 0.19 release.
mymix
Actually, I think organizing by artist is cool – because most of the artists have a specific style – and would not necessary match with each other ; if you have seen a good looking clipart, chance are it fits within a collection the same artist have made.
I also like the html files – with preview – that’s a nice new feature
big kudos for the ocal 0.19 – it’s brilliant !
jon
Thanks Peder for the comments. We had to move forward and get this package out. Its been delayed forever! And, we have a new approach. We are open to more ways to doing this, but haven’t had time to architect it. We always need help
Thanks Mymix! We will keep doing more to make this more usable. At some point soon the package is going to be too big and we will need to make a scaled back package IMO.
Rygle
Great work guys. Definitely looking forward to rendered thumbnails for the site. I think that will increase the usability rating of the site by about a billion percent.
jon
Absolutely!!!
Tracy
First I am so NOT a graphics/computer saavvy professional that knows what half of the site talks about…but I saw the comments/quesion box and thought i might ask for helP:)
I am looking for a small vector graphics clip art library that I can have
linked to my new website that is going up soon. It is online designing of plaques and awards. And I want to have a small/simple clipart library for user to access if they don’t have any artwork(logo, images, etc.) to upload. I want to have a webpage link that has categories and then I would like to choose which cliparts to list. I have been searching the net…but I am not sure where to go…i just stumbled on this site….any suggestions.