Hi all, Just to keep list members in the loop, I've created a brief page on the wiki summarising where we are up to with the project to create a set of public domain calculators:
http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicDomainCalculators Basically the calculators could determine whether a given work in a given jurisdiction is in the public domain. J. C. De Martin, coordinator of COMMUNIA, has circulated this to the network's members, to see how many people might be interested in contributing. I'll keep the list posted! Jonathan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [communia-prep] creating Public Domain Calculators with OKF Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:04:59 +0100 From: John Hendrik Weitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Pre-contract discussions related to the COMMUNIA project proposal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nice idea. We could surely provide the details for Germany. I guess one should include all the neighbouring rights, because that's where the different terms can get really nasty. Is the calculator to be based on some formal ontology? We could offer some OWL expertise, I guess. greetings, John J.C. De Martin schrieb: > Dear All, > > Those of you who were in Turin in January > will remember Jonathan Gray of the > Open Knowledge Foundation. > > Jonathan has recently shared with me a few proposals > regarding potential collaborations > between OKF and COMMUNIA. > > One of them is the idea of working together > to create Public Domain Calculators for Europe. > Jonathan sketched the idea at this > wiki page: http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicDomainCalculators. > > I think that PD calculators are a great idea, > which COMMUNIA is particularly well posed to develop, > given our pan-European membership: it is, in fact, > quite likely that we will need national embodiments > of the calculators. > > What do you think? > Please share your thoughts, including your willingness > to contribute, on this list, so that Jonathan and I > can decide what to do next, that is, open a dedicated > mailing list, use an existing one or something else. > > thanks, best, > > juan carlos > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > communia-prep mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://media.polito.it/mailman/listinfo/communia-prep > > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
