[pd-discuss] Activities for Public Domain Day 2013

Thu Dec 20 00:42:47 UTC 2012

My point is, I think we should have some from each of those 4 areas -
whatever is known to us as of Dec 30  :)  I think producing an infographic,
a spreadsheet, and a torrent (and an email campaign about them) shouldn't
be  beyond reach.

I would love to skype about this sometime after  0000 UTC Friday morning,
with you and anyone interested.

S

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> (changing subject line for clarity!)
>
> Hi SJ,
>
> All of what you suggest sounds great but I'm not sure how much of this
> we'll be able to put into place before 1st January.
>
> What is your availability like between now/next week? Perhaps we could
> catch up on Skype at some point over the next couple of days?
>
> The Public Domain Review has done this, which you may have seen:
>
> http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/11/class-of-2013/
>
> We'd also like to prepare a more comprehensive spreadsheet (which could
> then possibly be displayed/explored using the magic Listify [1]) of other
> stuff that is going into the public domain in 2013.
>
> Many of these works will not yet be scanned, so perhaps this list could be
> of value to inform ongoing digitisation/transcription initiatives.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] http://okfnlabs.org/listify/
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Reforwarding.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>
>> Too many lists!  How I wish my Coralline message system was up and
>> running...
>>
>> Okay, here's what we need:
>>
>> STATS:
>> A set of bite-sized stats we can compile about the "PD Delta Function"
>> that goes into effect Jan 1.  Number of pages, number of derivatives or
>> related works made, number of historical readers.
>>
>> A similar set of stats about last year's crop.  Including the year's data
>> on how things have changed:  the (change in) the number of sales of works;
>> the number of Google hits for searches, the number of sites making works
>> available online, the number of refs to such works in research?
>>
>> VISUALS:
>> A good fast snarky designer.  I have the Cards Against Humanity guys in
>> mind because of their fun recent wikimedia stunt,[1] but anyone will do.
>>
>> An [annual] poster summarizing such data.  Prototype for a future year,
>> for instance.  This can be a canonical web-infographic b/c of limited time.
>>
>> ONE DOWNLOAD:
>> A torrent that we can encourage everyone to seed and download.  Someone
>> gets to be responsible for compiling the darn thing by Dec. 31 and posting
>> it at the new year.  This is "as complete as it can be made on the morning
>> of Dec. 31"
>>
>> METADATA LIST:
>> A spreadsheet with metadata of things entering PD, including a canonical
>> link for a page that will contain the (revised over time) links to sources.
>>  We get to choose where that link goes, but it should be an archive that
>> will host such a page permanently for each work.  Wikisource is ok if
>> there's no obvious alternative.  OL is only for books, unfortunately.  An
>> archive that generates and maintains UUIDs would be even better.
>>
>> If we have those four things, this will be a smashing hit.  Other thigns
>> like trying to make the lst comprehensive will take time and can be a goal
>> for next PD Day.
>>
>> SJ
>>
>> [1] http://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/holidaystats/
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
>>
>>> (Copying Primavera)
>>>
>>> *Sigh*. Yes, we've been wanting to do this for years with our Public
>>> Domain Works project [1]. And I'm sure you've seen our work on the Public
>>> Domain Calculators [2]. I wanted to start doing more on this last year [3]
>>> - but alas other things got in the way.
>>>
>>> SJ: suggest that we could start a thread on this on the pd-discuss list
>>> [4], and I'll pitch in there so that others can join in our conversation.
>>> Perhaps we can organise a call and a virtual sprint on this in the new year?
>>>
>>> In any case, short answer: yes, we should definitely do something and
>>> we'd love to work with you to make this happen. ;-)
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> [1] http://publicdomainworks.net/
>>> [2] http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators/
>>> [3] http://blog.okfn.org/2011/07/06/lets-open-up-the-public-domain/
>>> [4] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/pd-discuss
>>>
>>
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