[pd-discuss] Europeana Hackathon: Using Public Domain Calculation to check PD

Tue Jun 21 07:00:38 UTC 2011

Very impressive work!

Best,

Maarten

Op 20-06-11 14:15, Maarten Zeinstra <mz at kl.nl> schreef:

> Hi List,
> 
> 2 weeks ago I participated in the Europeana Hackathon in Barcelona (part of 4
> simultaneous hackathons in London, Poznan, and Stockholm). Victor de Boer from
> the VU Amsterdam and I developed an interesting hack.
> 
> We took the Europeana Public Domain Calculator from outofcopyright.eu
> <http://outofcopyright.eu>  (of which I am the architect/developer) and
> stripped the GUI of the software and made it read a static JSON files. Victor
> de Boer enriched some data from the Europeana API with DBPedia, although
> Bibliographica would have been better in hindsight. This added death dates for
> artists, and identified that it was a natural person.
> 
> We've queried material from the Europeana API that had a date before 1960 and
> was NOT marked with the mandatory Public Domain Mark.
> 
> The hack had the following result: http://www.outofcopyright.eu/hack4europe/
> 
> It has some (hacky) overlays when you hover of the title of a work and the
> PD/C icons. We show which assumption we make to come to our conclusions, which
> makes it a first attempt at a Public Domain due diligence tool.
> 
> It used Dutch copyright law for the calculation. To make this hack possible
> for other jurisdictions we need to do 2 things:
> 1. add metadata to other XML files for other flowcharts. This takes about 3
> hours to do/jurisdiction
> 2. Adjust the python script to JSON arrays in accordance with local
> jurisdiction (some jurisdiction need more/less information to calculate).
> 
> I hope to hear your remarks and ideas.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Maarten Zeinstra
> Kennisland | Knowledgeland
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