The document discusses open content libraries and provides examples of existing open content libraries. It introduces ccHost, an open source content management system that can power open content libraries. It encourages building more open content libraries and provides suggestions for how to start an open content development community.

1. The Open Content Library An Overview of the Open Clip Art Library and ccHost Jon Phillips, Community Developer Creative Commons (HQ, SF) [email_address] http://creativecommons.org

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.

3. Three Points Current Landscape The Open Content Library Make More Libraries

4. Who is hosting your content? ?

5. Does your content host provide export of all your media? ?

6. What is being done with your data? ?

7. How many accounts do you have? ?

8. Is your content licensed properly? ?

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.

10. An Open Content Library Could Be Any Size (People, Items, etc) Use Any “Open Content” license Creative Commons License (Prefer) 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...

11. Current Landscape

12. Current Landscape Closed ___ Mixed ___ Open ___

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

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

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

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

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

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

38. The Open Content Library

39. Why are More Open Content 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?

40. 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

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

42. Business Commons Possibilities Commercial Rights Brokerage Advertising on libraries Sell Services around Content Digitization Printing Collection Media Discovery

43. 1 st Way to View : Social and technical Strategy Social Good communities and projects need real people and real communication Without good social, don't try technical (ASIDE: OLPC, eLearning) Technical Good software catalyzes certain types of communications and activities Bad Software hurts social/community

44. 2 nd Way to View : Open Content Library as Superset There are pre-existing libraries which exhibit these behaviors described Open Clip Art Library www.openclipart.org A community focused on the collection and creation of public domain clip art 16K+ images (SVG-based) Open Font Library www.openfontlibrary.org A public domain and Open Font Licensed collection of Fonts

48. 3 rd Way to View : opencontentlibrary.org Light-Interface to Open Content Library projects Basic place to collect these types of libraries Place for pooling of ideas around this subject

49. Make More Libraries

50. 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

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

52. 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

53. More Concrete Structure Concepts Infrastructure Social ...and some misplaced Corollaries

54. 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 branding.

55. Infrastructure Also called Holy Trinity 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

56. Social Help edit recent CMS edits Answer all relevant emails Stay in chat channel and answer questions

57. 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.

58. 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

59. 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

61. Creative Commons' CMS: 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. It is used by ccMixter and other sites http://ccmixter.org PHP + MySQL + standard Open Source packaging

62. ccHost, cont'd Most similar to mediawiki and wordpress Encourages proper licensing , sharing and remix of many types of media (video, audio, text, image) Highly customizable and stable Development version used by most major installations, thus, it gets tested heavily

63. ccHost Users Open Source Cinema uses www.opensourcecinema.org Open Clip Art Library moving to ccHost www.openclipart.org/cchost Open Font Library www.openfontlibrary.org Simuze.nl moving to ccHost Teacherhost (teaching material coming out soon)

64. Recently Released ccHost 3.1 Full localization support (i18n) Chinese (Traditional and Simplified, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, English ;) Replaced phpbb2 dependency with native forum/blog code Feeds coming out of every pour (rss, atom, custom, etc) Data dumping in feed formats for re-use Sample Pool API (for interconnecting sites) Sample/Clip Browser (show demo)

69. Beyond ccHost 3.1 WebDAV support for easier uploading and programmatic interfaces Better support for other file formats Better thumbnailing support Better generic import of content Better support for customization Support for other licenses (OFL, CC GNU-GPL, CC GNU-LGPL) See the webpage for more plugins

70. Get ccHost! Thrice-daily builds of packages Thrice-daily builds of phpdoc (trying to make development easy) http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost Requirements Php 4 and above MySQL 4 Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

71. CcHost Extension Demo Let's get you guys hooked on this...

72. 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

73. 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

74. CCDC: Get Involved Mailing Lists [email_address] IRC #cc on irc.freenode.net Submit a Patch http://cctools.sf.net Wiki http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Developer Try some Developer Challenges

75. 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/

76. The Open Content Library An Overview of the Open Clip Art Library and ccHost Jon Phillips, Community Developer Creative Commons (HQ, SF) [email_address] http://creativecommons.org