Open Content Library LGM 2007

Slide 1: The Ope n Co nte nt Library An Overview of the Open Clip Art Library and ccHost Jon Phillips, Business+Community Developer, Engineer Creative Commons (HQ, SF) jon@creativecommons.org, jon@rejon.org http://creativecommons.org, http://rejon.org

Slide 2: Overall Concepts HOWTO: Concrete Actions ● Applying Open Source to Open Content ● About Community and Contributing to Society ● While we are ideal, action happens through ● specific banal tasks (pick up a shovel) Please Help! This is an invitation. ●

Slide 3: Overview Curre nt Landscape ● The O pe n Co nte nt Library ● Make Mo re Librarie s ●

Slide 4: Who is hosting your content? ?

Slide 5: Does your content host provide export of all your media? ?

Slide 6: What is being done with your data? ?

Slide 7: How many accounts do you have? ?

Slide 8: How is your content licensed? ?

Slide 9: What is the Open Content Library? A collection of content (audio, video, text, etc) ● using open content licenses, stored in open formats with open source software that uses open services.

Slide 10: An Open Content Library Could Be Any Size (People, Items, etc) ● Use Any “Open Content” license ● Be Public, Private, or Mixed ● Allow Users to Control Privacy – Use Open Services (RSS, Atom) ● Support Content Import/Export – Use Open Formats (svg, xml, odf) ● Have Open Source Software power it... ●

Slide 11: Curre nt Landscape

Slide 12: Curre nt Landscape Closed ______ ● Mixed ______ ● Open ______ ●

Slide 27: Mixed ___ Flickr ● Limits how-much you can upload – CC licensing deeply integrated – Has Import/Export – Groups/Privacy controls – Stored on Yahoo/Flickr's Hardware – Powered by Closed Software – Some Open Services/API (upload, streams) – Focused on Photo Storage and Sharing –

Slide 28: Mixed ___ Google-dom (gmail, calendars, etc) ● Stored on Google's Hardware – Licensing not integrated (beyond search) – Stored on both Open and Closed Software – Uses Mixed Services (API, RSS) – Various Privacy Controls – Ad-Supported –

Slide 29: Open ___ Wikipedia ● Stored on Wikipedia's servers – But full dumps available and many many public mirrors ● Uses Open Source Mediawiki software – Uses Open Standards, Services – Focuses on Human Knowledge (history, primarily – text-based) Stores other media, but draws heavily from other – Open Content Libraries

Slide 30: Open ___ Archive.org ● Stored on many many mirrors – Import/Export available – Has specific requirements – Supports CC licenses – Trying to do everything (possibly problem) – Archive implies storage of old media –

Slide 36: Open ___ ccMixter.org ● Based upon Open Source ccHost engine – A remix community, not a content community – Support CC licenses – Uses Open Services – Uses Mixed Formats (AIF, FLAC, MP3) – Has import/export –

Slide 37: Open ___ wordpress.org-based blogs ● Open Source software for blogging – You install and host your own content – Focused on blogging, not content management – system (CMS) Supports Open Services (RSS, Atom) – Support Mixed Formats –

Slide 38: The O pe n Co nte nt Library

Slide 39: The Open Content Library Recap A collection of content (audio, video, text, etc) ● using open content licenses, stored in open formats with open source software that uses open services.

Slide 40: Why are More Libraries Needed? No Media Utopias (that can do everything) ● Data Redundancy is a good thing ● Niche-based like Social Network Services ● Orkut's big in Brazil! Mixi is big in Japan! – Need different libraries that focus around: ● Languages, Cultures, Specific Media, Usage – Privacy Anyone? ●

Slide 41: Do one thing well, or a lot of things not so well ● Open Source Software communities have ● developed strong strategies for building communities of practice Wikipedia, Open Clip Art Library and others have – learned

Slide 42: An Open Content Library Empowers Maintain your own library on-line ● Or, Maintain community around library ● Make it public, or keep it to yourself ● Make it legal (and clear) using Open Content ● Licenses (CC licenses or Public Domain) Insure longevity with open formats ● Insure interoperability with open services ●

Slide 43: Business Commons Possibilities Commercial Rights Brokerage ● Advertising on libraries ● Sell Services around Content ● Digitization – Printing – Collection – Media Discovery –

Slide 44: 1 Vie w Social & technical Strategy st Social ● Good communities and projects need real people – and real communication Without good social, don't try technical – Technical ● Go o d so ftw are catalyzes certain types of – communications and activities Bad So ftw are hurts social/community –

Slide 45: Vie w As a Superset nd 2 What projects are Open Content Libraries? ● ?

Slide 47: Open Clip Art Library www.openclipart.org ● A community focused on the collection and ● creation of public domain clip art 12K+ images (SVG-based) ● Based upon ccHost web-based CMS ● Hosted generously on freedesktop.org ●

Slide 48: Project Status Healthy ● Good communication ● Many artists at ~100 registrations a day ● Need more developers/coders ●

Slide 49: http://openclipart.org/wiki/Roadmap 0.19: Complete ccHost Transition ● Import Old Collection – Thumbnails (basic browsing infrastructure) – 0.20: Packaging and Browsing ● 0.21: Clip Art Requests ● 0.22: Wizards and Templates ● 0.23: Clip Art Optimization ●

Slide 50: Future Andy's New Site Design ● http://brisgeek.com/ocal/front.html ● Integration into Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Scribus ● Integration with other web services ● RSS, Sample Pool API, OpenSearch, WebDAV – Integration with services (Mikons, etc) ●

Slide 54: Open Font Library www.openfontlibrary.org ● A collection of Fonts for the free desktop! ● Public Domain Fonts ● Open Font Licensed Fonts ● Uses ccHost web-based CMS ● Hosted generously on freedesktop.org ●

Slide 55: Project Status 29 fonts total (so far) ● Logo Contest ● 123 logo entries (and 1 selected!) – Still haven't launched (perpetual beta?) ● Need more fonts and developers ● http://openfontlibrary.org/?ccm=/media/stats ●

Slide 56: Roadmap 0.1: Launch! ● 0.2: Monthly Releases Begin ● 0.3: Community Update ● 0.4: Library Update ● 0.5: Release of Fontview Type Manager ● ...1.0: (pssst...its what you want to make it!) ●

Slide 58: Vie w opencontentlibrary.org rd 3 Location to slide Open Content Library projects ● Basic place to collect these types of libraries ● Place for pooling of ideas around this subject ● Promotion of standards to enable open content ● standards and interoperability Seeding an Open Video Library and more! ●

Slide 59: Make Mo re Librarie s

Slide 60: Community Development (Building) How to build an online community that is to ● accomplish some goal Really Means... ● HOWTO build an Open Content Development – Community with approximately 20 people

Slide 61: Open Source Constitution-lite Make the source open ● Release Early, Release Often ● Reward contributors (with praise or some ● material reward if possible)

Slide 62: Need More Specific Model Open Source Software Light-Constitution is ● abstract It is aimed at software source code ● We need a model that is: ● community-centric – generalized for on-line communities – more pragmatic –

Slide 63: More Concrete Structure Concepts ● Infrastructure ● Social ● ...and some misplaced Corollaries ●

Slide 64: Concepts Make one solid goal for the project ● Remember KISS: Keep It Simple – Do one thing well, or do many things not so well – Always ask: \"Does this move us closer to our – primary goal?\" Pick a solid simple name that can be ● simplified to a one word tag. Use this tag/simple name for the domain ● name, etc for the project. It is your common

Slide 65: Infrastructure Also called H T oly rinity of Online Communication, or – network of social software Install CMS (ccHost, wiki, or blog) ● collective memory – Maintain a group chat channel ● irc.freenode.net, aim, gtalk – synchronous communication – Setup a mailing list ● Asynchronous communication –

Slide 66: Social Help edit recent CMS edits ● Answer all relevant emails ● Stay in chat channel and answer questions ●

Slide 67: Corollaries Social Atmosphere is defined in first days to ● 2 weeks of a project Start with a positive atmosphere, then this is – bread into the communities dna Starting with a negative atmosphere of flaming – and disses, then the community will develop this way and more than likely will die. Generally, it is amicable to be extra-nice, and – cordial much like one would like in the real world.

Slide 68: Corollaries, cont'd Real vs. Virtual ● Generally, treat developers and people in general – just as you would in the real world, if not better. Promote Contribution ● Reward contributors with praise! – Material vs. Non-material Rewards –

Slide 69: Corollaries, cont'd Dealing with problems ● Personal problems between people should be dealt – with offlist Group problems should be handled decisively by a – core member in a positive manner Problems in a community should be dealt with – internally before being publicly exposed (if at all). 99% of the time this solves conflicts that arise –

Slide 70: ccHost http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost ● ccHost is an open source (GPL licensed) project ● that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using the Creative Commons licenses and metadata. PHP + MySQL + Open Source packaging ●

Slide 71: More ccHost Features Most similar to m e diaw iki and w o rdpre ss ● Encourages pro pe r lice nsing, sharing and ● re m ix of m any type s o f m e dia (video, audio, text, image) Highly customizable and stable ● Development version used by most major – installations, thus, it gets tested heavily

Slide 72: Even More ccHost Features Sample Pool API ● http://ccmixter.org/media/viewfile/pool_api_doc – Code Documentation (phpdoc) ● http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/cchost/docs/ –

Slide 73: Who Uses ccHost ccMixter.org ● Open Clip Art Library ● Open Font Library ● freemusic.freeculture.org ● Open Source Cinema ●

Slide 75: Recently Released ccHost 4.0.1 Localization Support (i18n) ● Publicize Users ● Feeds coming out of every pour ● Data dumping in feed formats for re-use ● Sample Pool API (for interconnecting sites) ● Massive Performance Boost (Query Engine) ● Update CC license support to 3.0 ●

Slide 81: Beyond ccHost 4.0.1 WebDAV support for easier uploading and ● programmatic interfaces Direct in/out to Inkscape (and others) ● Better support for other file formats ● Thumbnailing support ● Better generic import of content ● See the webpage for more plugins ●

Slide 82: Get ccHost! Thrice-daily builds of packages ● Thrice-daily builds of phpdoc ● http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost ● Requirements ● Php 4 and above – MySQL 4 – Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X –

Slide 83: CC Developer Community (CCDC) http://developer.creativecommons.org/ ● Focused around CC licenses, standards, and ● technology CC itself is inspired by Free and Open Source ● Software and also uses GPL/MIT licenses for its own software Four main software projects (ccTools) ● 4 Google SoC projects ●

Slide 84: CCDC Goals Build a strong and supportive community of ● developers Support Creative Commons Developer ● Community Projects Build infrastructure around Creative Commons ● licenses Build infrastructure around Creative Commons ● standards

Slide 85: CCDC: Get Involved Mailing Lists ● cc-devel@lists.ibiblio.org – IRC ● #cc on irc.freenode.net – Submit a Patch ● http://cctools.sf.net – Wiki ● http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Developer – ●

Slide 86: Useful Sites Main sites ● http://creativecommons.org/ – http://icommons.org – http://www.sciencecommons.org/ – Set up an RSS feed for both blogs ● Graphics & movies that explain CC ● http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/how1 – http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/comics1 – http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/ –

Slide 87: Open Content Libraries Importance Open Source is Everywhere. Thanks! ● We still rely upon non-open content. ● Rays of Hope with Rhythmbox. ● Rays of Hope with Mugshot. ● Cross-over hope of Flickr, Youtube, blip.tv ● New devices like OLPC and OpenMoko: UGC ●

Slide 88: Thanks Thanks around the room ● Inkscape homies ● Freedesktop.org posse ● Create Project massive ● Louis! + LGM 2007 Support ● All Sponsors! ●

Slide 89: Credits Font: SIL Charis ● This entire presentation is CC Attribution 3.0 ● Licensed. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ – Graphics by Andy Fitzsimon, Alex Roberts and ● more!

Slide 90: Questions ?

Slide 91: The Ope n Co nte nt Library An Overview of the Open Clip Art Library and ccHost Jon Phillips, Community Developer Creative Commons (HQ, SF) jon@creativecommons.org http://creativecommons.org