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

Wed Jun 22 09:20:08 UTC 2011

> The public domain calculators library does already have a function to
> collect assumptions, the code to display it on publicdomainworks.net just
> hasn't been implemented yet  ;)
> I'll add this on the todo list !
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> 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
>> > Kennisland | Knowledgeland
>> >
>> > t +31205756720 | m +31643053919 | s mzeinstra
>> > www.kennisland.nl <http://www.kennisland.nl/> | www.knowledgeland.org
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>> >
>> >
>> >
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