[Foundation-l] CC "open attribute" released

[phoebe ayers]

2011/2/7 Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:33 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> this is just awesome:
>> http://openattribute.com/
>>
>> Born at the Drumbeat festival, just released! See the backstory:
>> http://mollykleinman.com/2011/02/07/announcing-open-attribute/
>
> This is really great but...as I said in my comment, there does not see
> to be any plan for an IE extension, which I find is a shame. We can
> say what we want about IE, but my guess is that people who use IE are
> probably the least "educated" to make proper attribution, leaving them
> out would be well, too bad. :(
>
> Delphine

Agreed ... though Molly replied that there are plans in the works to
develop "plugins for content platforms, so that people who publish
open content can put an “attribute this” button right on their site,
similar to the “cite this” button that appears on every page of
Wikipedia"

We already do this on Commons of course, but we might be able to learn
from their implementation, and it's a brilliant idea for all open
content providers. As for the Wikipedia link, my highly anecdotal
experience is that few people see it -- even many librarians!

phoebe