[OpenGLAM] Building provenance with Elog.io

Mon Feb 16 17:06:42 UTC 2015

Dear all,

thanks to a nudge by Sandra Fauconnier, I contributed with a proposal
for the GLAM-WIKI 2015 about Elog.io. You can find my abstract and
detailed proposal here:
https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015/Proposals/Elog.io_-_A_Global_Provenance_Catalog

Sincerely,
Jonas

On 13 February 2015 at 20:09, Jonas Öberg
<jonas at shuttleworthfoundation.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> as you're no doubt aware, I've been working on the Elog.io project for
> the last two years, a project which at its core is about providing
> contextual information (provenance) about creative works distributed
> online. We've focused our attention on some very concrete use cases of
> attribution and re-use, but we've built the infrastructure with an
> open API, with the idea that the database can be distributed and
> co-curated by the community, and with standards that support not only
> images but also sound and video.
>
> In the last couple of months, we've seen much more interest in the API
> than any of the tools we
> built on top of it, so I realise that we've perhaps spoken too much
> about the specific implementations that we had in mind, but not so
> much about what others can build on top of this.
>
> We're still running our fundraiser, through the end of this month,
> with the idea of raising $6,000 (today at $2,336) to support our
> continued work. I invite you to have a look, and do reach out to me if
> you've questions or are further interested in our work! I'm happy to
> say that we've in recent days included works from Safe Creative in the
> Elog.io catalog, and we hope to soon start importing works from
> Europeana and Flickr.
>
> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/elog-io-building-provenance-for-digital-works/x/48975
>
> Sincerely,
>
> --
> Jonas Öberg, Founder & Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow
> Commons Machinery | jonas at commonsmachinery.se
> E-mail is the fastest way to my attention

-- 
Jonas Öberg, Founder & Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow
Commons Machinery | jonas at commonsmachinery.se
E-mail is the fastest way to my attention