[pdb-discuss] Brief update from iSummit

Tue Jun 27 20:52:52 UTC 2006

Ahoy,

Looking through my notes I see I missed some details:

I brought up the Creative Archive's UK-only clause. In Canada, Michael Geist 
said that this could be a good bargaining chip for digitisation by, for 
example, suggesting that the BBC and CBS make a reciprocal access 
arrangement, which is a clearer incentive than making work entirely open and 
hoping that others will follow suit.  The reason I bring this up here is that 
we could use the notion of reciprocal access to our advantage when 
cooperating with foreign projects and UK institutions if we wanted.

The Italian project is called Liber Liber:
http://www.liberliber.it/comunicare/english/index.htm

Regard,
Tom

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 20:05, Tom Chance wrote:
> Ahoy,
>
> The talk went down well, people were impressed and interested in what we
> were doing. Everyone was talking about open content and PD registries, and
> I heard about lots of other PD digitisation projects, specifically in the
> Netherlands, Canada, Chile, Italy and Australia.
>
> Some thoughts that I took away:
>
> 1. We should talk to these other projects more about collaboration. For
> example an ideal end point would be a global registry (people and works
> with files) with localised (to jurisdiction) frontends (PD or not PD). It
> would be silly to duplicate work if it's practical to avoid doing so. The
> collaboration could be anything from documenting our work to sharing
> codebases to sharing the registry database to applying for funding
> together. It would make a lot of sense to at least create a hub (wiki page
> and/or mailing list) through iCommons so people doing public domain
> projects can keep in touch and discuss this further.
>
> 2. Our wiki is already serving as a very nice documentation resource, ala
> "how does one set-up a PD digitisation project?" so we should keep that
> work up.
>
> 3. It sold best when I strongly linked PD Burn, Open Shakespeare and the
> possible history project together. You get four complementary aims that
> way: - a registry for determining PD status
> - copies of works
> - tools to make innovative use of works
> - a huge demonstration of the value of the PD
>
> 4. Following on from 1 and 3, the value of the projects making use of the
> PD is that they provide a localised or indigenous or whathaveyou angle on
> an otherwise homogenising global PD. There's no harm in a global registry,
> but there's great value in celebrating the strength and diversity of works
> originally created in the UK, for example.
>
> That's about it, I think. The main thing right now, aside from the great
> ongoing work, is to act on item 1.
>
> Regards,
> Tom

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