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

[Jonathan Gray]

Absolutely. Adam (Editor of the the Public Domain Review) tweeted to Dan
Cohen about this [1], but we'd still like to follow up on this with them.

I guess there are two main issues here:

  i. Copyright status of work (presumably in US in first instance) - and
here they could either do manual marking by institution (e.g. with Public
Domain Mark for things which are definitely known to be out of copyright),
and possibly could look into semi-automated with calculators, though more
work is probably needed here. Perhaps could be an interesting to do a
public domain calculation hackathon with Europeana, DPLA, WMF and others on
this topic, building on existing work in this area [2] - including with
Tulane if they plan to open up their research/code?

  ii. Rights status of digital reproductions. E.g. Public Domain Mark,
openly licensed, CC licensed, claims of copyright in digital reproductions,
etc. One would hope that the DPLA would encourage use of the Public Domain
Mark amongst contributing institutions. I don't know whether there have
been any discussions of taking a principled approach to this, as per
Bridgeman and Corel (along the lines of the Wikimedia Foundation's position
on this [3]), along the lines of their position on data, but this could be
an option.

J.

[1] https://twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/324935697519759361
[2] http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators/
[3]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-Art_tag#The_position_of_the_WMF


On 23 April 2013 02:38, Timothy Vollmer <tvol at creativecommons.org> wrote:

> Agreed, nice post Jonathan. I think one thing the DPLA site might do is
> allow search by copyright status, similar to how Europeana does it. That'd
> be nice. Does anyone know if this is being considered? Of course, the site
> just launched, so maybe it's on the to-do list.
>
> http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html
> http://dp.la/search
>
> tvol
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is lovely.  Thank you, Jonathan!  What do you think of the site so
>> far?
>> On Apr 17, 2013 10:17 PM, "Jonathan Gray" <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I just posted a piece on the Open Knowledge Foundation's blog about what
>>> we hope the new Digital Public Library of America will become, which might
>>> be of interest to some of you:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://blog.okfn.org/2013/04/17/what-we-hope-the-digital-public-library-of-america-will-become/
>>>
>>> Looking forward seeing what comes out of the official launch tomorrow!
>>>
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