[pd-discuss] What We Hope the Digital Public Library of America Will Become

Tue Apr 23 14:03:11 UTC 2013

We would love to be part of dpla and helping in any way to make more works available. We are doing a huge redesign of our system starting in May. So input would be awesome. 

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On Apr 23, 2013, at 8:22 AM, "John Mark Ockerbloom" <ockerblo at pobox.upenn.edu> wrote:

> Copyright duration in the US is a mix of easy and hard rules.  There's
> an easy rule of publication before 1923, and harder rules involving publication
> after that point (and in some circuits, some foreign works published
> before 1923 are also potentially copyrighted, per Peter Hirtle's chart at
> http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm ).  And then
> there's the mess with sound recordings, which I believe was discussed
> here recently.
> 
> With about 1.5 million public domain items, HathiTrust has a large number
> of the books that are eligible for DPLA inclusion.  (I also import their
> records into The Online Books Page.)  And they've probably done the most
> thorough copyright research of any large project (since they have a
> team that'd researched these issues on tens of thousands of titles).
> If one were planning to filter or search by US copyright status, Hathitrust's
> rights information would be a good place to start.
> 
> John Mark Ockerbloom
> 
> 
> On 04/22/2013 09:34 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>> DPLA is serving as a platform for services and metadata more than a
>> creator of them.  A license-sensitive search is most desirable.  DPLA
>> can do things such as encouraging all content hubs to include license
>> data per record, where they have a non-default license, and
>> encouraging search providers to include a license-search option,
>> buidling on that data.
>> 
>> In many cases, however, at least for material older than CC, what we
>> need is a service like the Durationator which can take in the
>> identifier for a work and look up its (c) status in a shared global
>> database.
>> 
>> SJ
> 
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