Andrew Gray, 27/03/2014 20:31:
Here's an interesting project from the British
Library - interesting
both because people may wish to enter (there's £25000 available), and
because it touches on a lot of the same questions we have about the
value and impact of content donations
Interestingly, from
http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/restoring-cc-attribution-to-flickr-because-yaho…
mentioned in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.commons/7217 :
«A few months back, I picked Flickr as one of the sites to use to
distribute a large (1 million from the British Library) collection of
public domain illustrations I had extracted. The choice was easy to
promote due to the presence of Flickr Commons and Flickr's API. I am
disappointed with the loss of certain services (notes) and how crucial
services are now hidden by UI and require multiple steps to use
(community tagging, download original image, etc). I have seen a sharp
drop-off of casual tagging and only the diehard community remains.»
Nemo
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2014/03/tracking-pu…
https://ictomorrow.innovateuk.org/web/digital-innovation-contest-data/briti…
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The British Library has a large and growing collection of material in
the public domain, available through online platforms, such as Flickr
(
www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary) and Wikimedia Commons, for
anyone to use, remix and repurpose. However, once released online, the
British Library has little way of following that content as it is
re-used, which makes it difficult to measure any creative and economic
benefit.
The successful solution will allow public institutions to better
quantify and optimise the economic impact of releasing content into
the public domain (...)
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