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

Tue Jun 21 23:36:15 UTC 2011

The 'assumptions' bit is *fantastic*. Really important given we're
never going to get this to 100% accuracy. Definitely think we should
do something like this on PublicDomainWorks.net! :-)

J.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Maarten Brinkerink
<mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl> wrote:
> 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
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