[pd-discuss] Activities for Public Domain Day 2013

Wed Jan 2 12:59:23 UTC 2013

I have a list of almost 800 people reconciled with Freebase which
represents a combination of the original Freebase lists that I did for
Adrian plus all the entries for the authorandbookinfo.com that I was
able to reconcile with Freebase.  There are another 400+ people from
authoandbookinfo plus crowd sourced contributions which don't
currently have Freebase or English Wikipedia entries.

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1, and happy new year to all.  we could use a query that excludes works
> that were already PD.   I asked some friends who work a lot with freebase if
> they had ideas for helping further weed out translations.

I've worked with Freebase for 4 years and provided the query Adrian
used.  The Freebase schema has explicit support for translations, but
because most source data (ie MARC records) doesn't make it easy to
identify translations, the schema isn't well populated.

I would just make a blanket statement saying "doesn't include
translations," but if you wanted to make an attempt to identify them
explicitly, my suggestions would be:

- editions with title1 := title2 or title1 = title2 are usually
translations with the two titles being the translated title and
original title
- editions which contain "translated by" or similar in the title
author statement are translations
- editions which are in a different language than the author was known
to write in are translations (this may require some processing to
compute)

Personally, I wouldn't even try to be authoritative and would instead
put the onus on the reader to make sure they are in compliance with
the laws of their jurisdiction.

If you did want to attempt to individually identify copyright clear
volumes, another source of information is the Hathi data since they
individually clear each volume with human review.

Tom

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> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Primavera De Filippi
> <primavera.defilippi at okfn.org> wrote:
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>> Hi, just a short message to reanimate the discussion : would be nice to
>> schedule a skype very soon to discuss the matter.
>> I'm available pretty much anytime  :)
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>> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Yes, I meant tonight/tomorrow starting roughly now :)
>>>
>>> My thoughts: let's iterate on the total PDD bundle.
>>>
>>> ========== v 0.1  =============
>>>
>>> = Hook ==
>>> http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/11/class-of-2013/
>>>
>>> =Creator List=
>>> Franz Boas
>>> B. Malinowski
>>> L M Montgomery
>>> Robert Musil
>>> Eric Ravilious
>>> Bruno Schulz
>>> Edith Stein
>>> A E Waite
>>> Grant Wood
>>> F. Younghusband
>>> Stefan Zweig
>>>
>>> = Work List =
>>> ??? [TBD]
>>>
>>> = Torrent file =
>>> ??? [Requires work list]
>>>
>>> ==========  ~  ~  ~  =============
>>>
>>>
>>> To finish this version, we need a list of works, and a torrent.  And then
>>> an update to the original post with those.
>>>
>>> For v.2, we should include works from the 41 authors on the next-lager
>>> list, and the names and metadata for the 500 from Tom and Adrian's author
>>> query.  And perhaps someone can start working on actually posting and
>>> digitizing/ocr'ing the work of the initial 11.
>>>
>>> For v.3, we should include the names of the larger list of notable people
>>> who died in 1942 (again: the relevant data is both the fact that they died,
>>> pointers to where their work may be collected, and an indication of the
>>> country in which we should be looking at copyright law)
>>>
>>> If we can get to at least v.2 this year, that would be awesome.
>>>
>>>
>>> As Maarten rightly points out:  "every notable person on Wikipedia
>>> probably created something copyright protected. "
>>>
>>> True.  And many more.   What we need for this and future years is an open
>>> system where anyone who loves the public domain can think hard about whether
>>> they know someone who should be added to that year's spreadsheet -- or add
>>> them to the appropriate year's spreadsheet over the coming decade  -- and
>>> can start identifying their full list of works and where those works are
>>> physically & digitally located.
>>>
>>> SJ
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