[open-literature] [open-heritage] Fwd: "Inventare il Futuro" Contest

Wed Jul 13 12:38:12 UTC 2011

Hi James !

I write to you on the behalf of the Public Domain Working Group. As you
might already know, we are working on the development of
http://publicdomainworks.net - a website intended to make it easier for
people to find works in the public domain. The website works currently
integrates with the bibliographica database - http://bibliographica.org -
together with the public domain calculators -
http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators in order to determine the legal
status of works. Eventually, we would like to provide links to public domain
copies of these works, to ensure that people can have access to digital
copies which are not restricted by any legal or contractual means.

We think that it would be great to work together on this and submit an
interesting proposal to that contest.
OpenShakerspeare could be used as a specific example based on literature,
which could later be expanded in the fields of art, music, etc.

I fullfill the requirement of being less than 30 years old and graduated
from an European university, and i'd be happy to work together with you on
drafting the 'innovative aspect' section ;)
Let me know what you think about it !

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Primavera De Filippi
> <pdefilippi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > do you think we can try and submit a proposal for pdw.net ???
> > ;)
>
> I suggest we do something with James from OpenShakespeare - e.g.
> focusing public domain works for teaching and research.
>
> See his message below.
>
> Primavera - can you follow up on the open-literature list saying
> you're interested in working with him to do something on Open
> Literature and Public Domain Works?
>
> J.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: James Harriman-Smith <james.harriman-smith at okfn.org>
> Date: Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [open-literature] "Inventare il Futuro" Contest
> To: Open Literature <open-literature at lists.okfn.org>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
> I've been looking over the details of this competition on 'Inventing
> the Future', calling for "innovative ideas involving new technologies
> which could contribute to improving the quality of civil and social
> life"
> >
> >
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inventare-il-Futuro-Un-Concorso-per-Giovani-Idee/221824417827746
> > http://www.unibo.it/inventarefuturo/en/partecipa.html
>
> Entries must be either individually or in groups of four. Open
> Shakespeare fits the call pretty well, and I thought the idea could
> be:
> **Allowing internet users to replicate their reading patterns online:
> making annotation and anthologies, and sharing them with their
> friends.**
> Usefully, Open Shakespeare is already halfway there so could act as
> the demonstration that they seem to want. There are only two problems:
> - I do not want to enter individually, when so much of Open
> Shakespeare is collaborative; but if I enter as part of a group, I
> must name only three other people, all of whom must be under 30 and
> previously enrolled in a European university.
> - They ask for " A document of max. 2 pages which describes in detail
> the technological components to be used and underlines the innovative
> feature", which I am not capable of writing.
> Does anyone want to work with me on this? The price is anything up to 7
> 000€!
> James
>
>
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