[okfn-discuss] [Fwd: Re: [communia-prep] creating Public Domain Calculators with OKF]

Wed Feb 27 23:16:26 UTC 2008

Hi all,

Just to keep list members in the loop, I've created a brief page on the 
wiki summarising where we are up to with the project to create a set of 
public domain calculators:

  http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicDomainCalculators

Basically the calculators could determine whether a given work in a 
given jurisdiction is in the public domain.

J. C. De Martin, coordinator of COMMUNIA, has circulated this to the 
network's members, to see how many people might be interested in 
contributing.

I'll keep the list posted!

Jonathan

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [communia-prep] creating Public Domain Calculators with OKF
Date: 	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:04:59 +0100
From: 	John Hendrik Weitzmann <jhweitzmann at mx.uni-saarland.de>
To: 	Pre-contract discussions related to the COMMUNIA project proposal 
<communia-prep at streaming.polito.it>
CC: 	Jonathan <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
References: 	<47C5E9B3.8040408 at polito.it>

nice idea. We could surely provide the details for Germany. I guess one
should include all the neighbouring rights, because that's where the
different terms can get really nasty.

Is the calculator to be based on some formal ontology? We could offer
some OWL expertise, I guess.

greetings,
John

J.C. De Martin schrieb:
> Dear All,
> 
> Those of you who were in Turin in January
> will remember Jonathan Gray of the
> Open Knowledge Foundation.
> 
> Jonathan has recently shared with me a few proposals
> regarding potential collaborations
> between OKF and COMMUNIA.
> 
> One of them is the idea of working together
> to create Public Domain Calculators for Europe.
> Jonathan sketched the idea at this
> wiki page: http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicDomainCalculators.
> 
> I think that PD calculators are a great idea,
> which COMMUNIA is particularly well posed to develop,
> given our pan-European membership: it is, in fact,
> quite likely that we will need national embodiments
> of the calculators.
> 
> What do you think?
> Please share your thoughts, including your willingness
> to contribute, on this list, so that Jonathan and I
> can decide what to do next, that is, open a dedicated
> mailing list, use an existing one or something else.
> 
> thanks, best,
> 
> juan carlos
> 
> 
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