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Zotero / Archive Cooperation
by Erik Moeller 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

FYI http://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-and-the-internet-archive-join-forces/ Recently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the Center for History and New Media and the Internet Archive $1.2 million dollars to develop new services that will aid scholarly sharing, collaboration, citation, and annotation. In 2008, users will be able to drag and drop items into the "Zotero Commons"—a dedicated part of the Internet Archive's servers—through icon in the left column. Zotero Commons Items donated to the Commons will be stored in subdirectories of the Commons named for the donors. In addition to encouraging donations to the commons (since those donating will receive credit for their contributions), this feature will also enable users to identify others who are working with and/or annotating the same content, fostering new collaboration opportunities. The benefits to the scholarly community of the Common are thus threefold: 1) The availability of permanent, persistent archival, off-site storage for long-term management and use of digital content. 2) The ability to share resources publicly for easy access by other scholars. 3) The simplified discovery of new, related resources and potential collaboration opportunities. As an added incentive to donate to the Commons, the Internet Archive will provide free OCR for your contributions and send you the transcribed text to help you search your personal library. In addition, modifications will be made to Zotero to make it easier for researchers to select already archived files and web pages from the Internet Archive's existing collections rather than saving local copies. This will enable better referencing of "born digital" items and allow for the collaborative annotation of web documents. Zotero Commons and Zotero 2.0 Zotero 2.0 will allow you to sync your library's metadata to the Zotero Server. You will sync your metadata with the Zotero server With Zotero Commons you will be able to contribute public domain images, texts, audio and other files. You can also contribute files to the Zotero Commons In turn, the Internet Archive will send you any text extracted from donated documents. -- Erik Möller

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507 FPs in 2007
by Brianna Laugher 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hello Commoners, Happy New Year! Guess what? Over 500 images became Featured Pictures in 2007! In 2006 there were only about 330 IIRC so that is really impressive growth. I put them all on one page here: <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pfctdayelise/POTY07_categories/2007_…> Could someone who is more SQL-savvy than me possibly run a query to get this same list, so I have something to double-check against? (I'm pretty sure this one was hand-compiled.) These images will make up the entries to the Picture of the Year competition which starts soon, so it would be awful if any slipped through the cracks. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:POTY/2007> Congratulations and thanks to all the people who take part in FP, photographers, illustrators, commenters and constructive-criticisers. :) cheers Brianna user:pfctdayelise -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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o rly?
by David Gerard 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7160057.stm - d.

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Jókívánság
by Vezér János 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Nagyon boldog Új Esztendőt kívánok minden "wikiz ő" barátunknak, akiknek a vitáját, elmélkedését nagy figyelem mel kísérem. Igaz, hogy sok mindent nem értek belőle,de ezért bo csássatok meg, hiszen egy nyugdíjas "öreg szivar" vagyok, aki szeret a hálón szörfölni. Érdekelnek az újdonságok és a tudomány os kérdések, a művészet és műszaki beállítottságú rév én a technikai újdonságok, az utazások. Tehát adjatok feladatot a rra, hogy kihámozzam a sok vitaanyagból a szándékot. Jó és ered ményes évet kívánok! öregJani _________________________________________ Éhes vagy? Internetes ételrendelés, egyszerűen, házhozszállít ással! Pizzák, hamburgerek, saláták, stb.... Minden egy helyen! KLI KK IDE!

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Should we use CC-Plus? (CC+)
by Brianna Laugher 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

CC+ is basically a Creative Commons way of saying "if you want extra permission beyond those granted in this license, contact me [or some third party] to arrange that". It is mostly talked about in the context of using a NC license and then using CC+ for anyone who wants to get permission for commercial use. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus However it also seems to make sense even for Commons which only allows CC-BY and CC-BY-SA. A lot of people have personal "contact me for X" statements where X could be a freer license, higher-res image, whatever else. We could start using CC+ as the framework for that today, as seen by the simplest example <http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus#Easy_CC.2B_Markups> (the main gist of it seems to be special attributes in the <a> html tag) So the question is not should we allow it (we have no reason not to), but - should we actively encourage people to use it, instead of personal "contact me for X" statements? Basically the only point of using CC+ instead of personal statements is because CC+ is intended to be a standard. This is not an issue where the benefits of standardisation are hugely obvious to me, so I am not too fussed about this, but maybe some people have strong feelings about it. If you use a personal contact statement, is there any reason you wouldn't switch to a standardised CC+ statement with an equivalent statement? cheers, Brianna user:pfctdayelise -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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Fwd: [Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] looking for someone to do work for hire...
by Brianna Laugher 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: noreply(a)openclipart.org Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] looking for someone to do work for hire... To: clipart(a)lists.freedesktop.org I have a large database containing coat of arms shields. These are proprietary. I basically need someone to clean up my existing database as many of them were poorly rendered. The file type is .wmf. There are thousands of files so the individual should be a very efficient. Prefer someone with some coat of arms knowledge but not essential. Any assistance with finding the right person would be greatly appreciate. I live in California. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks _______________________________________________ clipart mailing list clipart(a)lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

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Yet another GFDL violation in a big newspaper
by Jynus 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Hi, When I read this article [0] on "Telegraph", I knew I have seen the image before, somewhere [1]... I know this is not the first time nor the last this happens, I just wanted to highlight it, as I think it is one of the biggest newspapers in the UK. I see no way to contact them. I suppose that, for some people, we are a just bunch of PD images... :-( [0] <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/19/sciscisso…> [1] <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Rock_paper_scissors.jpg> -- Jynus

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Commons greetings cards
by Angela 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

This spun off from a different discussion elsewhere, but I was wondering about the possibility of printing Christmas cards based on images from Commons. Maybe a partnership with a printing company could be made for next year's fundraiser? (I'd buy them!) Angela

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Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Our content gets *everywhere*
by David Gerard 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

There is always this method. - d. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> Date: 23 Dec 2007 13:24 Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Our content gets *everywhere* To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> On 12/21/07, James Farrar <james.farrar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Six different front covers, each one with text lifted straight out of > enwiki... I hit the roof - GFDL is not public domain! - but Management > don't seem to care. Someone should sue ;-) Prior to sueing, someone with a bit of initiative could send an invoice. I suspect many companies, when faced with an actual invoice of some reasonable amount (<$1000) would simply pay it. Some text to the effect of "You didn't contact me before using my text. However, I'm willing to grant a retrospective licence for $.... under the terms at my website [...]". Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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OggConvert: play with the Dirac codec
by David Gerard 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

http://www.linux.com/feature/123574 The Theora bitstream format is finalised, the Dirac bitstream is still subject to change, but you can play with it and see what it's capable of. - d.

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