Oops.. should have read Michael's email before replying, looks like he's already covered much of this. Apologies!
Tim On 3/21/07, Tim Cowlishaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/19/07, Saul Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How about something short and relatively simple like this: short and simple sounds good... :) ------------------------- > The founding of a Public Service Publisher (PSP) is an opportunity to > make a significant ongoing investment in the vast landscape of publicly > owned knowledge and the public knowledge infrastructures already > developing on the Net. > > We, the undersigned would like to see the PSP joining the international > communities of individuals, organisations and enlightened states > investing in: the role of the PSP as part of an international community is the key thing here, IMO, we need to emphasise the public benefit of opening access outside the UK (in order to avoid a similar situation to the Creative Archive). Paula was talking on Saturday about the PSP being a 'node on a global network', which might be a nice way of phrasing it. In any case, I think we should emphasise that opening the PSP's services up internationally would increase the public benefit for UK citizens, rather than decreasing it. - Free, Libre and Open Source (FLOSS) technologies and systems. I heartily agree! Also, an emphasis on reusing existing infrastructure would be good too (eg. not building a PSP-branded you-tube clone, when youtube / blip.tv are already there and perfectly fit-for-purpose. I'd like to see the PSP taking part in developing some sort of metadata standard for community-generated media, and perhaps providing some sort of aggregation service for it, however I don't think it's necessary for the PSP to implement it's own publishing platform when there's services available that will do the job already. (see p.45 of the discussion doc, para 5.33: "It is not envisaged that the PSP should be set up as a distribution platform in it's own right..." - Advocacy and educational initiatives about viable alternatives to > restrictive Intellectual Property (IP) for publicly funded projects. > - Advocacy and educational initiatives for people, companies, local > government and organisations to publish their materials and public > data in open, traversable formats, using open APIs. This would be great... I'd like to see the PSP fulfilling a similar role to the British Library (ideally to a far greater extent) in terms of providing consultation on IP policy that reflects the public interest. Might any involvement in legislative process / lobbying run counter to the PSP' s public service remit though? - Decentralized systems for the distribution of data and metadata (peer > to peer systems) for publicly funded and user generated content. See comment above. Zoe (from transmission.cc) might have something to say about this, are you on-list, Zoe? > - Open Source Semantic Web services and infrastructures for greater > association and interlinking and searching of online resources. > > We feel that the PSP could have a vital role in addressing the strategic > concerns of the Net as a global and national infrastructure; exploring > and protecting the educational, commercial and societal possibilities of > what 'public service' might mean in this new context. As above, I wholeheartedly agree. Also, I think it might be worth adding a paragraph applauding their decision to use liberal licensing, and to request that they use a CC licence rather than a scheme similar to the Creative Archive (which is erroneously described as 'a variant of the creative-commons' licence on p.42, para 5.21) - referring back to the importance of being part of a global community. It might also be worth noting that we'd encourage a PSP which was more concerned with providing an infrastructure for community creativity, rather than commissioning works from established media outlets that operate in the 'new media' space. Happy to draft these in, if everyone agrees.... Cheers, Tim
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