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Wikipediai loves art: Open content and the V&A

Jordan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:20:36 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WLA@V%26A

Wikipedia Loves Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a free content photography contest organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, Wikimedia UK and other Wikipedians. It is due to take place in February 2009 and is part of the wider Wikipedia Loves Art project that month.

The objective for the V&A is to compile a public digital collection of the major art pieces held at the museum. For Wikipedians, the objective is to collect images and use them to illustrate articles throughout Wikipedia.

The goal is to create open content or public domain images of either public domain works or works whose copyright is owned by/held by the Victoria and Albert museum. Essentially, this is crowdsourcing digitisation.

New upload – CC Salon presentation

Jordan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:32:49 +0000

On 20 November, I spoke at the London CC Salon about the results of the report on open content licences and the UK cultural heritage sector. Special thanks to Tim for setting up the event, and for the small but well informed crowd who attended.

Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007

CC Salon presentation (PDF) [Link]

Thanks for blogging about the new Snapshot Study

Jordan — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:03:05 +0000

Thanks to all who have blogged about the new report, supported and funded by Eduserv, on the use of open content licences such as Creative Commons and Creative Archive in the UK cultural heritage sector.

The report is available here;

Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007

We are building up some momentum on it, so please blog and let people know about it!

(in no particular order)

Thanks again!

Speaking tonight – CC Salon

Jordan — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:09:56 +0000

Just a reminder, I’ll be heading to London for the CC Salon to speak about my recent report, funded by Eduserv, on open content and the cultural heritage sector in the United Kingdom.

The report and appendices are available here.

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CC-Salon London returns with our final event of 2007, for more discussion and debate on the subjects of art, technology, copyright and free culture.

This time round we’ll be joined by Jordan Hatcher, a lawyer and legal consultant specialising in intellectual property and technology law, who will present and discuss his work on a new report entitled “Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector”. This study primarily examines the use of the Creative Archive (CA) and Creative Commons (CC) licences among UK museums, libraries, galleries, and archives.The key objective has been to get a snapshot of current licensing practices in this area in 2007, and Jordan will report on his findings.

We’ve got loads more events planned for the new year, including talks, discussions and parties. Visit our website for more information:
http://ccsalon-london.org.uk

The Salon will be held from 7PM – 11PM at: The Crown and Anchor, 22, Neal St, Covent Garden London WC2H 9PS, on the 20th of November 2007.

The event is open to all with no registration, but if you like, you can register on our Facebook or Upcoming events:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=18814899168

Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/312503/?ps=5

Report now out!

Jordan — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:27:36 +0000

See the survey site for the report, appendices will be posted shortly.

Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007

The survey was funded and supported by Eduserv, and special thanks to Ed Barker, Andy Powell and Pete Johnston from Eduserv for providing guidance and feedback at various stages during this study.

Speaking at London CC Salon about open content study

Jordan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:48:26 +0000

On 20 November, I will be speaking at the next London CC Salon about the results of the report on open content licences and the UK cultural heritage sector:

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CC-Salon London returns with our final event of 2007, for more discussion and debate on the subjects of art, technology, copyright and free culture.

We’ve got loads more events planned for the new year, including talks, discussions and parties. Visit our website for more information:
http://ccsalon-london.org.uk

The Salon will be held from 7PM – 11PM at: The Crown and Anchor, 22, Neal St, Covent Garden London WC2H 9PS, on the 20th of November 2007.

The event is open to all with no registration, but if you like, you can register on our Facebook or Upcoming events:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=18814899168

Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/312503/?ps=5

Open content licences report out 16th November

Jordan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:43:16 +0000

I have received word from Eduserv that after going through some internal (to Eduserv) review that the report on the use of open content licences and the UK cultural heritage study will be out on the 16th of November.

It will be available on the study’s website:

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007

Cultural heritage report out soon

Jordan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:54:53 +0000

I know many of you are eagerly awaiting the forthcoming report on the use of open content licensing in the UK cultural heritage sector. The report, funded and supported by Eduserv, is complete and is going through a final internal … Continue reading →

Survey analysis: What would you like to see?

Jordan — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:11:43 +0000

As I mentioned on the 3rd, the survey about the use of open content licences by the UK cultural heritage community is now closed. We’ve now entered into the analysis phase, and should have the list of applicable respondents finalized this week. Though I have a pretty good idea of the cross tabs and charts that I’d like to pull out of the data, in the spirit of openness I figured I’d solicit comments as to what everyone else would like to see out of the data. I can’t release the data itself at the moment, but if you take a look at the questions, which are available here, you should get a firm grasp of what kind of info we have. Let me know if you have any ideas.

Snapshot and case studies of current usage of Creative Commons (and other open content) licences by cultural heritage organisations in the UK
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007

Cultural heritage and open content licensing survey now closed

Jordan — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:18:15 +0000

The survey is now closed. Thank you very much for everyone that participated, and the prize giveaway for the iPod Shuffles will take place very soon. We will be writing up the report and analyzing the data over the next few weeks, and we should have a final product before the end of October.

For further details, please see:

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007

(and also of course this site)