Hi Ben,

What I meant by that is that the wiki contains (proprietary) shareable
works and also contains libre works, not that every work in the database is
libre. I've changed it to 'Shareable Resources and Libre Works', which I
think removes all ambiguity.

Hi Nate,

Thanks for the link back and the comments. I think your tweets about the
next step being aggregated metadata are probably right (or at least that
this is a possible future for free culture). Unfortunately, I suspect the
FOSsil Bank is a poor choice for this, because it doesn't use the same wiki
language that - for example - Wikipedia does. It's also an area that I know
practically nothing about.

But I think it would be great to be able to plug into, for example, the
Europeana and Flickr databases.

Hi Samuel,

I think what I said above to Nate fits with what you were saying as well -
a way of mixing or combining databases so that people have all the
information they need in one spot.

Cheers folks!

Chris

*Chris Sakkas
**Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/> and the
Living Libre blog and Twitter feed <https://twitter.com/#%21/living_libre>.*



On 3 May 2012 06:40, Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote:

> Chris Sakkas <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hey Karl,
> >
> > That's a fair comment - especially since 'open source' is often used
> > exclusively to refer to software. I've changed to 'Shareable and Libre',
> > which is as you say consistent with the rest of the site.
>
> No, works are not “Libre” when restricted by CC's NC or ND clauses. You
> can say they're shareable, but please don't contribute to the false
> impression of freedom some people have about those restrictive clauses.
>
> Thanks for maintaining the site.
>
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