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

Wed Apr 24 06:55:40 UTC 2013

yes. this by the way is very much the same at Europeana. Europeana has published a booklet describing their framework at the end of 2011, which also goes into some of the design decisions that were made to arrive at such a model: http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/858566/7f14c82a-f76c-4f4f-b8a7-600d2168a73d

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On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 23:10 , Tom Morris wrote:

> There are actually a couple of other exceptions for previews & the
> DPLA marks, so let me try again:
>  
> Metadata - all contributed metadata is CC0 (and the DPLA asserts that
> they believe most of it is not copyrightable anyway)
> Images, Video, & Audio on DPLA site - individually licensed per rights
> statements in metadata (this covers thumbnails, previews, etc on DPLA
> site)
> User contributed content - CC-BY (ambiguous as to whether required
> attribution is to DPLA only or original contributor)
> DPLA marks, dress, look & feel - all rights reserved
> Actual content - individually licensed per rights statements in
> metadata (note that none of this is, currently, hosted on the DPLA
> site, but on the original owning institutions sites)
>  
> Tom
>  
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com (mailto:tfmorris at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > That blogger didn't read the Terms of Service carefully enough. The
> > actual item contents are under a potluck of licenses, but all DPLA
> > content (not cataloged content) *except* the metadata is released
> > under CC-BY. The metadata is all explicitly CC0:
> >  
> > http://dp.la/info/terms/
> >  
> > 5.2. Metadata
> >  
> > All Metadata has been dedicated to the public pursuant to Creative
> > Commons’ CC0 public domain dedication, and is available for download
> > through DPLA’s Metadata API. Please read DPLA’s Metadata Policy for
> > more information regarding the Metadata.
> >  
> > Tom
> >  
> > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Peter B. Hirtle <pbh6 at cornell.edu (mailto:pbh6 at cornell.edu)> wrote:
> > > On point 2 below, you might be interested in the blog posting “Public
> > > library, not public domain” at
> > > http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2013/04/19/public-library-not-public-domain/
> > > which makes the point that while the metadata about collection items is
> > > released under a CC BY license, the content itself is not. Furthermore,
> > > some repositories claim ownership and limit use of public domain material.
> > > The author’s conclusion:
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> > > …this is a public library, but its holdings — like those of any library —
> > > may still be protected and can not just be assumed to be public domain. We
> > > all need to take care to respect the rights of the contributors of the
> > > content and any intellectual property rights of the authors and creators.
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> > > Peter Hirtle
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> > > From: pd-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org (mailto:pd-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org)
> > > [mailto:pd-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gray
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 1:42 PM
> > > To: Public Domain discuss list
> > > Cc: List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data;
> > > open-glam at lists.okfn.org (mailto:open-glam at lists.okfn.org)
> > > Subject: Re: [pd-discuss] What We Hope the Digital Public Library of America
> > > Will Become
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> > > 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 (mailto: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 (mailto: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 (mailto: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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> > > Jonathan Gray | @jwyg
> > >  
> > > Director of Policy and Ideas
> > >  
> > > The Open Knowledge Foundation | @okfn
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