ACIA 2008
2008-01-20
Toward Useful Creative Commons Adoption
Metrics
Mike Linksvayer
Vice President, Creative Commons
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No New Graphs?
● See my 2007 Dubrovnik presentation
– http://www.slideshare.net/mlinksva/creative-commons-metrics/
● Giorgos has the best goods
– http://pml.wikidot.org
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Four pre-announcements
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1: 90 million
● New estimate (taken 2006-12) of
minimum number of CC licensed works
● Using methodology similar to described
by Giorgos Cheliotis in June (finding
minimum 45-60m based on 2006-01
data)
● Number to satisfy distribution of licenses
at Flickr and Yahoo! search results
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1: 90 million

2: CC Metrics Portal
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics
(forthcoming)
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3: Data Dump
All metrics collected by CC over the years
will be available for download as MySQL
and CSV dumps to encourage analysis.
Warning: the data is very messy.
(forthcoming)
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4: ccREL
● Finer grained licensing
● Machine readable attribution
● Derivatives tracking
● Exposed on deed
● More and better metadata = easier and
more interesting metrics
● http://wiki.creativecommons.org/ccREL
(forthcoming)
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Some of the things we want to
know
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Quantitative
● Overall growth, causes
● Regional variation, causes
● Genre and type growth, causes
● Derivative use
● Plain republishing
● How is license use evolving? More
freedom?
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Qualitative
● High quality content
● Use cases, success stories
● Awards?
● Discovery
● Role of attention data (hey that’s
quantitative)
● How is open licensing changing culture?
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Some of the things you can do
to help
● Find good CC licensed stuff
● Document success stories as case studies
● Code for CC metrics projects
● Research
● Critiques of research
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License
– http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Attribution
– Author: Mike Linksvayer
– Link: http://creativecommons.org
Questions?
– ml@creativecommons.org
Wiki
– http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/program:cc-adoption-metrics
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