By preciouskhyatt, http://flickr.com/photos/preciouskhyatt/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 The Myth of PDWiki PDWiki Mini Unconference 2008 [ We Were Massively Caffeinated ]

By preciouskhyatt, http://flickr.com/photos/preciouskhyatt/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0

By Randy Son of Robert, http://flickr.com/photos/randysonofrobert/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0

The Myth of PDWiki...

To create an community editable wiki of information about creative works public domain status.

Legal Challenges

Does a complex collaboration agreement allow actual collaboration?

Social Challenges

No Community of Support

Tech Challenges

Creating the world’s largest digital library

Success =

Open Library Wiki Technology Community Portal Internet Archive Storage 20 Million+ Records about works

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Creative Commons Legal Expertise Copyright and PD <code /> 46 International Jurisdictions

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Wikimedia Foundation Thousands of Wikipedians Wiki Technical Expertise Open Library Wikipedia Plug-in

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Rockefeller Foundation Initial grant to realize this project

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Public Users of the system Organizations to use API Organizations to contribute records Developers to contribute code

CA

US

<Code /> http://demo.openlibrary.org:9021

http://creativecommons.org/projects/cczero

Waiver Assertion

<ref name=&quot;Blue Sky&quot;> {{ cite book | last = Atack | first = Jon | authorlink = Jon Atack | year = 1990 | url = http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/index.html | title = A Piece of Blue Sky | publisher = Carol Publishing Group | location = New York, NY| id = ISBN 0-8184-0499-X }} </ref> <!--page 65-->

http://openlibrary.org/b/OL6121101M

Countries (jurisdictions)

45

Canadian PDRegistry.ca Access Copyright Creative Commons Canada Wikimedia Foundation

Future Jurisdiction Front-ends Open Knowledge Foundation (UK) Public Domain Works project and their UK + EU code (in-progress) CC Netherlands! (Bjorn)

Code (legal + python)

Contributors (Your unique skills!)

TODAY

HACK-ING

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/PDWiki_Mini_Unconference_2008

Groundrules

1. Make Documentation as Public as Possible

2. File bugs on public trackers now

3. Assign or Assume responsibility for bugs and roadmap items

#openlibrary on irc.freenode.net

Roadmap Overview (Who and When?)

Launch PDRegistry.ca

Launch PD Code on Open Library

Launch OL + Wikipedia

Future and Growing Usage

GOAL Before August :)