[open-bibliography] [pd-discuss] What We Hope the Digital Public Library of America Will Become

Tue Apr 23 18:46:10 UTC 2013

A PD-calculator hackathon sounds like a great idea.  We could organize
a pair in the US and in Europe, if that makes it easier to bring the
most active people to one of the two.   SJ

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Absolutely. Adam (Editor of the the Public Domain Review) tweeted to Dan
> Cohen about this [1], but we'd still like to follow up on this with them.
>
> I guess there are two main issues here:
>
>   i. Copyright status of work (presumably in US in first instance) - and
> here they could either do manual marking by institution (e.g. with Public
> Domain Mark for things which are definitely known to be out of copyright),
> and possibly could look into semi-automated with calculators, though more
> work is probably needed here. Perhaps could be an interesting to do a public
> domain calculation hackathon with Europeana, DPLA, WMF and others on this
> topic, building on existing work in this area [2] - including with Tulane if
> they plan to open up their research/code?
>
>   ii. Rights status of digital reproductions. E.g. Public Domain Mark,
> openly licensed, CC licensed, claims of copyright in digital reproductions,
> etc. One would hope that the DPLA would encourage use of the Public Domain
> Mark amongst contributing institutions. I don't know whether there have been
> any discussions of taking a principled approach to this, as per Bridgeman
> and Corel (along the lines of the Wikimedia Foundation's position on this
> [3]), along the lines of their position on data, but this could be an
> option.
>
> J.
>
> [1] https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/324935697519759361
> [2] http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators/
> [3]
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag#The_position_of_the_WMF
>
>
> On 23 April 2013 02:38, Timothy Vollmer <tvol at creativecommons.org> wrote:
>>
>> Agreed, nice post Jonathan. I think one thing the DPLA site might do is
>> allow search by copyright status, similar to how Europeana does it. That'd
>> be nice. Does anyone know if this is being considered? Of course, the site
>> just launched, so maybe it's on the to-do list.
>>
>> http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html
>> http://dp.la/search
>>
>> tvol
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is lovely.  Thank you, Jonathan!  What do you think of the site so
>>> far?
>>>
>>> On Apr 17, 2013 10:17 PM, "Jonathan Gray" <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I just posted a piece on the Open Knowledge Foundation's blog about what
>>>> we hope the new Digital Public Library of America will become, which might
>>>> be of interest to some of you:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://blog.okfn.org/2013/04/17/what-we-hope-the-digital-public-library-of-america-will-become/
>>>>
>>>> Looking forward seeing what comes out of the official launch tomorrow!
>>>>
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