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

Tue Apr 23 19:17:09 UTC 2013

In France, we were actually planning to organize one of these hackathon, to interface the current version of the public domain calculators (publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators) with a several cultural institutions in France. It could be great to launch a shared international initiative, where different countries take a bunch of metadata from their domestic glam institutions and align the national calculator to their respective format. The new version of the pd calculators allows to map different kinds of metadata to a common format internal to the calculators. This makes it possible to aggregate data from many different places into a single repository, so as to resolve the problem of improper/insufficient bibliographic metadata through aggregation. The goal would be to eventually be aligned with all standard metadata formats and to finally be able to properly test our calculators ;)

On Apr 23, 2013, at 8:46 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>>> Director of Policy and Ideas
>>>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation | @okfn
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