[pd-discuss] Public Domain Day 2012

Thu Nov 24 06:41:54 UTC 2011

Yes, I can make a commitment we will have this operational in time :-)

The issue at the moment has nothing to do with the PD calculators so
much as reloading the large corpus of metadata into BibSoup (or
similar) and then running the algorithms ...

Rufus

2011/11/23 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
> (cc'ing pd-discuss list)
>
> Hmm.. not sure.
>
> Mark, Primavera, Rufus: any ideas on whether we'll have this up again
> in time for Public Domain Day 2012?
>
> http://publicdomainworks.net/stats/year/2011
>
> J.
>
> 2011/11/23 Luca Leschiutta <luca.leschiutta at polito.it>:
>> Hi Jonathan, we started to review the public domain day web site for next
>> year and found out that this link is not working anymore:
>> http://publicdomainworks.net/stats/year/2011
>>
>> Is there any chance that the link will be repaired and that something like
>> that will be made available for 2012 too?
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>> Luca
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: communia-members-bounces at lists.communia-project.eu
>> [mailto:communia-members-bounces at lists.communia-project.eu] On Behalf Of
>> Jonathan Gray
>> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:07 PM
>> To: Bożena Bednarek-Michalska
>> Cc: communia-members at lists.communia-project.eu
>> Subject: Re: [Communia-members] Public Domain Day 2011
>>
>> FYI, we've blogged about this here:
>>
>> http://blog.okfn.org/2010/10/18/which-works-enter-the-public-domain-in-2011/
>>
>> Also we're having a discussion about this on our public pd-discuss list
>> here:
>>
>> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/pd-discuss
>> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/pd-discuss/2010-October/000464.html
>>
>> J.C. and other COMMUNIA folk: would be great if you could give any
>> update on plans for publicdomainday.org or news on local celebrations!
>> ;-)
>>
>> 2010/8/18 Bożena Bednarek-Michalska <b.michalska at bu.uni.torun.pl>:
>>> In Poland Coalition for Open Education will also think about PDD in Warsaw
>>> National Library like every year, we will write, what will be done soon.
>> Now
>>> everybody is on holiday.
>>>
>>> Coordination web campaign, the web site www.publicdomainday.org with
>> general
>>> information is good idea. We also should think about some posters and
>>> leaflets  for everybody, will be easier to organise information and
>> meetings
>>> with them.
>>>
>>> Cytowanie "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin at polito.it>:
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> I am writing you to talk about the Public Domain Day 2011,
>>>> which I would like to celebrate it more effectively than the previous
>>>> edition.
>>>>
>>>> My idea would be to contact several people and institutions - starting
>>>> from
>>>> the COMMUNIA members, of course -  and try
>>>> to make a concerted effort similar to what is done for the
>>>> Open Access Week every October.
>>>>
>>>> Nothing too burdensome or ambitious: just a coordinated web campaign,
>>>> around the web site www.publicdomainday.org (and the usual other
>> channels,
>>>> such as, TW, FB, etc), with general information (what is the PD, why it
>> is
>>>> important,
>>>> which authors are about to enter the PD on 1 Jan 2011, etc.)
>>>> and suggestions on how to celebrate the PD Day - perhaps even offering a
>>>> kit on "how to prepare a PD Day Celebration".
>>>>
>>>> I believe that without exceeding work, a decently-done PD Day site with
>>>> the
>>>> explicit backing not only of the COMMUNIA Project, but also of specific
>>>> COMMUNIA members who feel particularly committed,
>>>> could go a pretty long way in the public debate, considering how well
>>>> received was the rudimentary 2010 attempt.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Authors who died in 1940 include:
>>>>
>>>> Francis Scott Fitzgerald
>>>> Nathanael West
>>>> Isaac Babel
>>>> Mikhail Bulgakov
>>>> Leon Trotsky
>>>> Walter Benjamin
>>>> Paul Klee
>>>>
>>>> Not all of them will necessarily enter the PD Day, though: check your
>>>> local laws
>>>> (or the relevant PD Calculator :-) )
>>>>
>>>> Regarding Italy, we are already preparing a PD Day
>>>> celebration revolving around Vito Volterra,
>>>> noted mathematician, first president of the National
>>>> Research Council and one of the few Italian universities
>>>> professor who refused to take the fascist oath of obedience
>>>> (just 12 out of 1000 were as brave as Volterra).
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> JC
>>>>
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>>>
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