[pd-discuss] Activities for Public Domain Day 2013

Thu Dec 20 12:26:50 UTC 2012

Just to check: do you mean the midnight between Thursday 20th and Friday
21st?

So far we have:

  * This overview post (with nice graphic ;-)
http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/11/class-of-2013/
  * This spreadsheet (which probably needs expanding to include other
works):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al6mO9_3Hr2PdHJxTFNGSk0wWEdnY2FrMXNmSXlmU2c#gid=0

I agree that in future we need a canonical URL (e.g.
publicdomainreview.org/works/...). Regarding Bit Torrect, by total
coincidence someone from Bit Torrent wrote to me last night - so will
definitely follow that up.

J.

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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