FYI
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From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn dot org>
Date: 2009/1/28
Subject: [okfn-discuss] BBC to put 200,000 oil paintings online
To: okfn-discuss <okfn-discuss(a)lists.okfn.org>
Reported today that the BBC is going to put 200,000 oil paintings
online and will 'open up' the Arts Council's vast film archive:
BBC to put nation's oil paintings online
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/28/bbc-digitalmedia
I'd be interested to hear how they are going to license this material
and how they will publish it. They are partnering with the Public
Catalogue Foundation. I've writted to the PCF in the past. They derive
income from selling hard copy catalogues and do not seem to be keen on
allowing third party re-use of their material:
<quote>
The contents (but not the painting reproductions), design and
underlying code of this website remain the intellectual property of
The Public Catalogue Foundation at all times. You may not use or
reproduce or allow anyone to use or reproduce the content on this web
site for any reason without written permission from The Public
Catalogue Foundation.
Paintings are reproduced courtesy of the participating collections and
the copyright owners. You may not use or reproduce or allow anyone to
use or reproduce the painting reproductions on this website without
written permission from the relevant collections and copyright owners
where appropriate.
Use of The Public Catalogue Foundation Content
You may retrieve and display content from this website, print
individual pages on paper and store such pages in electronic form on
your mobile telephone for your personal, non-commercial use. Except as
expressly set out above, you may not reproduce, modify or in any way
commercially exploit any of the content.
</quote>
J.
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Hi Commoners far and wide:
Although it is lesser known, we at Wikinews (english edition) also
have a picture of the year competition. Basically the focus is on
choosing an image that is both pretty and is newsworthy. All
Wikimedians with greater than 50 edits, and have had an account since
Jan 10 (on any wikimedia wiki, but please merge your accounts), are
invited to vote, and as such I would like to extend an invitation to
everyone at Wikimedia Commons, to come down to wikinews and vote.
This will be the second time we have done this, last year
[[File:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia 1 by David Shankbone.jpg]] was
selected as the 2007 wikinews picture of the year. From the summary on
[[wikinews:WN:POTY]]:
The aim of this idea is to have an election for a Wikinews Picture of
the Year 2008, in an analogy to the Picture of the Year contest on
Commons. With this initiative we would like to promote photojournalism
and quality images with great news value for use on Wikinews and other
Wikimedia projects. This idea is not meant to compete with the
election on Commons (the rules and candidates are totally different)
or criticise Commons in any way, rather it is aimed to promote more
collaboration between Wikinews and Wikimedia photographers.
Round 1 voting opens on Jan 24, 00:00 UTC, and closes on the 31st. All
images are selected from images that have appeared on
[[n:template:News in pictures]] in 2008 (which is on the wikinews
main page). For more information, please see:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Picture_of_the_Year_2008
Sincerely,
your friendly neighborhood wikinewsie, [[wikinews:user:bawolff]]
p.s. I hope this isn't too off topic
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The following vandalism on this high profile image:
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stayed up for three days before someone called the office to complain.
Do we have any automated system on Commons to prevent this sort of
thing from occurring; does this type of thing happen often enough to
merit setting something up?
Cary
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Probably the best thing would be to get a bot in #cvn-commons -
currently there is not one, making patrolling for vandalism
difficult as one must use old-school methods. The
Countervandalism network hasn't been able to provide one for some
months, but this should be possible once the new CVNBot is done
being coded. Until then, perhaps a member of the Commons
community could run a bot for that channel? I can help get
someone set up if need be, though I cannot run the bot myself. I
think that would be a better solution than an anti-vandalism bot.
-Mike
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From: Rob Myers <rob(a)robmyers.org>
Date: 2009/1/19
Subject: [ORG-discuss] Fwd: [Openlab] [OT] [DMRN-LIST] Unlocking Audio
2 conference: registration & call for papers
To: Open Rights Group open discussion list
<org-discuss(a)lists.openrightsgroup.org>
"This conference is a key event exploring the use of sound recordings
online, focussing on ways that researchers and other audiences expect
to discover, browse, audition and analyse archival audio resources."
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Date: Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Subject: [Openlab] [OT] [DMRN-LIST] Unlocking Audio 2 conference:
registration & call for papers
To: puredata mailing list <pd-list(a)iem.at>, openlab mailing list
<openlab(a)lists.pawfal.org>
i just found this, i think it might be quite revelant ;)
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The British Library will be pleased to welcome your participation at
Unlocking Audio 2: Connecting With Listeners
16-17 March 2009, The British Library Conference Centre, London NW1
<http://www.bl.uk/unlockingaudio> www.bl.uk/unlockingaudio
Supported by the Joint Information Systems Committee
celebrating the successful end of the 2nd <http://sounds.bl.uk/>
Archival Sound Recordings project
Keynotes by <http://www.charlesleadbeater.net/home.aspx> Charles
Leadbeater (a leading authority on innovation and creativity in
organisations)
and <http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/people/andypowell/> Andy
Powell (Head of Development at the Eduserv Foundation)
This conference is a key event exploring the use of sound recordings
online, focussing on ways that researchers and other audiences expect
to discover, browse, audition and analyse archival audio resources. It
will be of interest to:
· content owners
· academics & students
· service providers
· user groups
· resource managers
· system integrators
· designers and implementers of search & content analysis tools
Important dates
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Call for papers and registration
Please visit the conference website:
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(authorised blogging tag: unlockingaudio)
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This is proprietary, of course. But do we have materials for someone
to build something like this? Is anyone collecting just samples of
people talking for Commons?
- d.
Hi!
Just read in http://planet.mozilla.org/:
Al Jazeera released some materials under Creative Commons 3.0
Attribution license. I think such materials is in scope of Commons,
but require converting to Ogg.
See http://cc.aljazeera.net/ for details.
Eugene.
PS
Please don't start flame wars about politics. Thank you.
I am forwarding this with kind permission from Dror.
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From: Dror Kamir <dqamir(a)bezeqint.net>
Date: 2009/1/13
Subject: Re: Pikiwiki on commons-l
To: ChrisiPK <ChrisiPK(a)gmail.com>
Hi,
I've just subscribed to commons-l, but it'll take some time until the
subscription is approved. In the meantime, I'm sending you my response
to some of the comments I saw on the thread:
1. The "Pikiwiki" project has been planned for very long time. I
consulted Carry and Brianna before starting the whole thing, and I
posted a detailed explanation about it on the Meta. This project has a
management and legal counseling. There is no need for any member of
the Commons community to verify the legality of the license statement,
as we provide full guarantee that anyone who contributes images to the
project waives his copyrights in the manner required by the Israeli
law. "We" means Wikimedia Israel, The Israeli Internet Association and
The Center for Educational Technology.
2. The rules of the project are in line with the rules and scope of
the Commons. A person who opens an account on "Pikiwiki" can in
principle open an account on the Commons and contribute his images to
the Commons directly. However, we believe more Israelis will
contribute images on a localized Hebrew-speaking site.
3. The images uploaded will be screened for abuses before and after
they are uploaded to the Commons. Of course, once they are uploaded
the Commons admins will check them too. All we ask is that the admins
inform us before deleting or renaming an image uploaded through this
project.
3. We want to show people how they can use the Commons via a localized
interface as a tool to learn about their own local history and
geography. For this purpose we want to upload the images to the
Commons, but at the same time keep our own "catalog", which will have
categories and descriptions relevant to Israeli users. Searching the
images using this "catalog" will be available through the localized
site. The problem is, that we need to locate the image on the commons,
once we find its ID on our "catalog". We though to attach an ID to the
file's name, but any other idea is welcomed.
4. Naturally, people will describe the images in Hebrew. We can offer
them to supply an English description as well (most Israelis speak
some English), but we cannot present our project as an Israeli one and
force people to use English. Translating the description can be done
gradually.
Dror
ציטוט ChrisiPK:
> Hi Dror,
>
> I wrote a reply to your post on the commons-l mailing list. As I am not sure whether you subscribed the list now, I am giving you the link where you can read what I wrote:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2009-January/004486.html
>
> I'd be glad if you could adress my concerns and post your reply to the commons-l mailing list. Subscribing, at least for a limited period of time, wouldn't hurt, I guess, in case more questions come up.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> ChrisiPK
>
>
Hi, Dror asked me to forward this message on.
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Hi,
I sent this message to commons-l, but it is being halted because I
didn't subscribe. Could you please forward it, or release the original
message?
Thanks,
Dror
Pikiwiki - Israel free image collection project
Starting engines
Hello,
The Israel free image collection project is about to take off
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Picwik). We are currently testing the
system, a process which could take a while, because we've already found
some bugs and unfriendly features, to be repaired as soon as possible.
However, we started to upload images as part of the testing phase, so I
think it is time to inform the Commons' community about the project.
This is a joint project of Wikimedia Israel (wm-il,
http://www.wikimedia.org.il) The Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL)
and the Center for Educational Technology (CET). The basic idea (as
described in details on the Meta) is to call upon the Israeli public to
look in their family albums and private collections for pictures of
Israeli-related pictures of special historical, anthropological,
archeological, geographical, zoological and/or botanical value. These
pictures should be in good quality and depict historical events,
landscapes, archeological findings, cultural events, animals and plants
as long as they are related to the State of Israel or to the
geographical region commonly known as Palestine or Eretz Yisrael (we are
going to be flexible about these definitions). For this end, we created
a localized site in Hebrew (*http://www.pikiwiki.org.il*
<http://www.pikiwiki.org.il/>). Anyone who is willing to contribute his
images can open an account there and declare that the pictures are his
own and that he is willing to release them either to the public domain
or under cc-by-2.5 license (i.e. with attribution). We also initiate
calls to local archives and collectors. Some of them have already sent
us interesting images, which we will upload to the Commons soon. Images
donated through this localized site will be accessible through the site
itself or the Commons. We would like the localized site to serve not
only as an upload site but also as an attraction to pupils, students,
teacher and the general public, where they can look for images using
Hebrew interface. This means that the interfaces between the localized
site and the Commons is quite complicated and delicate.
The localized site saves the images temporarily and eventually sends
them to the Commons. We have two main problems to overcome:
1. Users will name the images and describe them in Hebrew. We will add
the prefix "Pikiwiki" to the name, and probably an ID which will enable
us to locate the image in our own catalog. So a typical name might look
something like "pikiwiki_123456_ציפורים_נודדות_מעל_מכתש_רמון.jpg". If
friendlier names are required, we will have to think of a better idea.
2. As mentioned above, we would like to present the images on the
localized site too, according to localized categories. Therefore, we
would like to attach an ID to each image, so we could trace it easily on
the Commons. Currently, adding this ID to the image name seems the
easiest option.
Here are some technical details about the way the upload process is
handled as provided by our programmer:
A synchronization component handles all data synchronization with
WikiMedia Commons. It simulates user behavior and data posting via CURL.
The component rechecks the data of the images needed to handle, to
prevent un-needed execution
This operation has several steps:
1. Login into WikiMedia Commons
2. Uploading new images - the data is processed and posted with
appropriate tags and licensing.
3. Updating images changed since last synchronization.
4. Removal of requests for removed images, which were uploaded to
WikiMedia. A removed image is flagged in a watch list to allow future
tracking and verification of successful removal. Access to the component
is secured via hard-coded token, to prevent unwanted execution.
A Visual debugging function exists in the code, to allow fast problems
tracing Each synchronization step is rechecked based on existing data,
pulled from the output of WikiMedia, to attempt to verify successful
operations and marking of un-successful operations
1. Uploading - WikiMedia Commons does not have an API or other
completely supported interface, to allow any operations in their system,
without manual intervention. (The perl script originally provided by one
of their users also attempts to utilize existing forms on the site).
This component simulates user behavior and heavily depends on existing
WikiMedia state - once WikiMedia decide to change or block some of the
current screens in their system, the code might need to be updated or
modified accordingly.
2. Updating or editing existing user images on WikiMedia is not support
or publicized on their site. The component uses user simulation and
fetches WikiMedia security token to allow this behaviour. (The token is
originally there to prevent such operations.) Once WikiMedia create
other or additional security precautions, this operation will require
code modification and might become impossible.
3. Removal of images - as WikiMedia Commons is a system designed for
common information sharing, it does not support direct image removal,
let alone image removal via external system. This synchronization
component simulates fake JS requests and image information updates to
notify WikiMedia Commons system regarding the fast image removal demand.
Currently this allows quick (although not on the spot) removal. If
WikiMedia change their system or implement further security precautions,
this operation will require code modification and might become impossible.
* The component uses hard-coded credentials for WikiMedia Commons,
required to use their system and all the operations in their system are
done in the name of the provided user
* All the images are uploaded one by one to prevent the user from
potentially getting blocked by WikiMedia Commons
Thank you very much,
Dror Kamir,
Wikimedia Israel
[posted to commons-l and wikien-l; someone may want to forward it to
wikisource-l, perhaps?]
I've just run across this article, which might be of use in helping
those who work on the eternal problem of determining whether or not a
given 20th-century work is in copyright in the US.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/hirtle/07hirtle.html
Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of
Determining Copyright Status - Peter B. Hirtle, Cornell University
D-Lib Magazine, July/August 2008
Volume 14 Number 7/8
"It has long been assumed that most of the works published from 1923
to 1964 in the US are currently in the public domain. Both non-profit
and commercial digital libraries have dreamed of making this material
available. Most programs have recognized as well that the restoration
of US copyright in foreign works in 1996 has made it impossible for
them to offer to the public the full text of most foreign works. What
has been overlooked up to now is the difficulty that copyright
restoration has created for anyone trying to determine if a work
published in the United States is still protected by copyright. This
paper discusses the impact that copyright restoration of foreign works
has had on US copyright status investigations, and offers some new
steps that users must follow in order to investigate the copyright
status in the US of any work. It argues that copyright restoration has
made it almost impossible to determine with certainty whether a book
published in the United States after 1922 and before 1964 is in the
public domain. Digital libraries that wish to offer books from this
period do so at some risk."
The minefield is even murkier than we thought, it seems.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
