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| Oneliner | One Webpage Per Book |
| Summary | Working on some big pieces of this project initially through Creative Commons. |
| Affiliations | Creative Commons, Internet Archive, Wikimedia Foundation |
| Website | http://www.openlibrary.org/ |
| Status | Completed |
| Next Step | Software complete, its up to openlibrary.org now — Contact, if interested. |
| Role | Manager |
| Collaborators | Community |
| Tags | opensource, opencontent, creativecommons, content, publicdomain, library, books, internetarchive, digitallibrary |
| Type | Collection |
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The Open Library, Public Domain Wiki, and other Realized Myths of Creative Commons Lore
Here are my slides from my presentaiton at National Digital Archive Program Annual Conference in Taipei:
Five years ago the actual implementation of an accessible worldwide digital library or archive existed in the land of fairytales. With the rise of Free and Open culture, decreased hardware costs, and cheap Internet access in some countries of the world, the ability to actualize these myths on a grand scale on the Internet became possible. Still however, the legal hurdles randomly scattered by copyright in jurisdictions around the world erected a major barricade for accessing knowledge. Copyright law generally has increased confusion around how creative works may be used. With the introduction of Creative Commons in 2003, these issues were addressed with clearly explained copyright licenses, a clear public domain dedication, and a brilliant international community consisting of 46+ International jurisdictions supporting the commons.
This presentation surveys the major digital archiving initiatives,
museums, and digital libraries around the world which use Creative Commons licenses. It also presents Creative Commons involvement with the Open Library (http://demo.openlibrary.org) to create a site where books and other media are edited collaboratively wiki-style by people around the world to help determine the copyright status of these works. The myths of lore are to be debunked.
pfctdayelise
I wish I could hear this talk!
Can you say a bit about the “Open Library Wikipedia plug-in”? (55) What is the nature of the agreement with WMF? I am a bit surprised not to have heard of it before this.
Also, http://openlibrary.org/b/lron_review is a dead link. (87)
What does “Subject to WM* ” mean in slide 91?
jon
Not really an agreement, but what we are striving towards for having a better way of doing citations/references on wikipedia through Open Library…more on that coming soon
Subject to WM* is bad way of saying that it must go through Wikimedia foundation first and not directly connected to WM* projects…this is mostly conjecture, assuming the OL work gets into Mediawiki and WM* properties…
Yes, the lron_review is just an example.
More coming soon about all of this…are you interested?
pfctdayelise
Am I interested, absolutely.
The interface for sourcing is quite woeful, and it’s such an important part of writing a good article these days.
And I am wondering a little bit that I haven’t heard about this from the Wikimedia side.
jon
Yah, David Strauss is working on this integration through a grant through CC…it is not announced yet formally, but will provide a new way to help out with sources, etc…