[pdb-discuss] Fwd: PD Burn

[Michael Holloway]

Thanks for the prod, Rufus.

Below is the somewhat baffling response from iCommons.

Mia Garlick (General Counsel) has left CC-US, and i'm unsure who to contact
in her stead. John Buckman was gonna find a suitable contact, but has yet to
respond. Guess i'll prod him again..

Ta

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From: Kerryn <mckay at icommons.org>
Date: Apr 24, 2007 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: PD Burn
To: Michael Holloway <michael at openrightsgroup.org>
Cc: tom at acrewoods.net

Hi Michael

I did some brief research on a number of open content projects to see
how they were faring, what kinds of resources they were using, the
possibility of replication and what kinds of information are
necesseary and available for such projects with the aim of looking at
how such projects could be incorporated into the iCommons new website
which will be launched at the summit in Croatia.  The website is
going to be a practical, helpful way for  projects to list  and
position themselves in the global community, and is going to be a
good way of the community to record and create awareness of their
projects, request (ask for) resources, funding and assistance in the
form of able bodies/ volunteers etc.

I think that Tom is going to be at the summit and will therefore be
at the launch of the site.

Apologies for not getting back to Tom or yourself earlier!

Kind regards
Kerryn


On 20 Apr 2007, at 6:41 PM, Michael Holloway wrote:

> Hi
>
> We've not spoke before, so apologies for blundering in without
> intros :)
>
> I understand Tom responded to your enquiry below. Any developments or
> interest in the project at iCommons HQ or elsewhere?
>
> We're pushing on and intend to issue a further call for participants
> at the end of this month.
>
> Ta
>
>>
>> Subject: Public domain burn
>> Date: Thursday 05 October 2006 15:42
>> From: "Kerryn McKay" <mckay at icommons.org>
>> To: tom at acrewoods.net
>>
>> Dear Tom
>>
>> I am part of the newly formed non-profit org The African Commons
>> Project
>> and am also currently working with Heather and Diane on
>> establishing a
>> direction (for proposal to the community) for the iCommons
>> incubator.  I
>> have also spoken with your uncle, Toby Chance, regarding the Soweto
>> Festival, thanks to a helpful lead from you.  (Unfortunately time was
>> rather tight so we didn't manage to have a presence at the
>> festival, but
>> we're keen to participate next year.)
>>
>> Anyway, the above is simply by way of an introduction.  The reason
>> that
>> I'm emailing you is that I would like to pick your brain about the
>> Public
>> Domain Burn project, which would be a great project to include on the
>> iCommons Incubator for replication in other countries.
>
>> Of course some information is available on the project page, but
>> some info
>> would need your input.
>>
>> The info that I would be looking for is along the lines of:
>
> Some of this depends on whether we are talking about PD Burn or
> just PDW
> (public domain works db). PD Burn includes PDW and also involves
> work to
> actually digitize stuff. At present I think we've concluded that we
> will
> just work on PDW and leave digitization to others (or until we have
> the
> resources necessary to do it).
>
> Focusing on PDW. Most of the answers are on:
>
>   http://www.publicdomainworks.net/
>
>> *  objectives of the project
>
> http://www.publicdomainworks.net/about/
>
>> *  tools and resources:  were these created/ how were they found etc?
>
> We're having to build most stuff from scratch. We have found some web
> resources and hope to be able to use metadata from some library or
> other
> but that isn't certain yet.
>
>> *  people working on setting up the project:  what skills needed
>
> code: well the hope is if we write the code once it can be re-used
> everywhere (we're just providing a metadata db with extra attributes
> such as pd status)
>
> Thus once it has been once you'll just need a sysadmin to install a
> local copy
>
> data: metadata again should be pretty common (though extra items
> such as
> pd status might not be). Thus again this is something that can be done
> in common. Of course a load of works may be country specific in which
> case it's most likely that it will be volunteers from that country who
> will be interested in entering the data
>
>> *  people contributing to working project: who is, or has,
>> contributed
>
> The people on this list ;) I and Nathan did most of the coding.
>
>> *  how many works have been added
>
> Depends what one means. We could add as many works as we want just by
> piping them from the BL but there are potential copyright issues. At
> present we are just testing the software and system and so are working
> with a test set of 137 works from 1900.
>
>> *  what is the activity like (slow, fast etc)
>
> slow with bursts (see next question)
>
>> *  who funded the project (if at all)
>
> no funding as yet
>
>> *  who is administering the project
>
> PD Burn: FC-UK
>
> Public Domain Works Database: FC-UK + Open Knowledge Foundation
>
>> *  what timeline (if any) are you working towards
>
> Because it is a volunteer project with no funding (at present) we
> don't
> have a specific timeline
>
>> *  what will be the expected result (obvious, but nontheless!)
>
> An **open** database of metadata relating to cultural works along with
> PD status in Europe
>
>> *  how will the information gained (either process info or actual
>> info
>> around the public domain works) be dissseminated
>
> It will be available via a website as well as for download as a
> database
> dump. All code (and perhaps other source data files) will also be
> available in a source code repository such as subversion.H
>
> --
> Michael H Holloway
> +44 (0) 7974 566 823
>
> http://www.openrightsgroup.org



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Michael H Holloway
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