[pd-discuss] Editing publicdomainworks.net data?

Mon Dec 14 14:49:11 UTC 2009

2009/12/2 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
> From Alek Tarkowski, who is working on a calculator for Poland:
>
>  "Regarding the Public Domain Works catalogue - have you considered
> adding a "add person" option so that additional information could be
> crowdsourced?"

Making the whole DB editable is clearly the next step. We've already
got most of the infrastructure in place to make this happen -- the
issue is that once we allow editing we've got to have versioning to
avoid vandalization problems.

Rufus

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alek Tarkowski <alek at creativecommons.pl>
> Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [Communia-members] Works entering the PD on 1 January 2010 ?
> To: communia-members at lists.communia-project.eu
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> Would it be feasible to prepare comparative information about what works
> will enter into the public domain in different countries? And also
> explain the complexity (if any) arising from the fact that same work
> might be PD in one country and ARR in another? This would be valuable
> information on the publicdomain.eu site.
>
> I want to add to Bozena's message that Polish Wikipedians are creating a
> biographical list of creators who's works enter the public domain
> (unfortunately only in Polish), and Polish digital libraries are
> scanning the most important Polish works. We will also soon have a
> webpage (in English too) and hope to have an infographic about the PD
> ready by the end of the year.
>
> Regarding the Public Domain Works catalogue - have you considered adding
> a "add person" option so that additional information could be crowdsourced?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alek
>
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