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 http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2014/03/tracking-pu… https://ictomorrow.innovateuk.org/web/digital-innovation-contest-data/briti… ---- 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 (...) ---- -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk