A brief reminder that our workshop on Open Bibliographic Data and the Public Domain (which we blogged about a few months ago) is taking place on Thursday 7th October. Details are as follows:
- Where? Rooms 108/108a, FU Berlin, Garystr. 21, 14195 Berlin
- When? Thursday 7th October 2010
- Registration? http://publicdomain.eventbrite.com/
- Hashtag? #pdobd
- Notes? http://okfnpad.org/pdobd
Here’s the blurb:
This one day workshop will focus on open bibliographic data and the public domain. In particular it will address questions like:
- What is the role of freely reusable metadata about works in calculating which works are in the public domains in different jurisdictions?
- How can we use existing sources of open data to automate the calculation of which works are in the public domain?
- What data sharing policies in libraries and cultural heritage institutions would support automated calculation of copyright status?
- How can we connect databases of information about public domain works with digital copies of public domain works from different sources (Wikipedia, Europeana, Project Gutenberg, …)?
- How can we map existing sources of public domain works in different countries/languages more effectively?
The day will be very much focused on productive discussion and ‘getting things done’ — rather than presentations. Sessions will include policy discussions about public domain calculation under the auspices of Communia (a European thematic network on the digital public domain), as well as hands on coding sessions run by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The workshop is a satellite event to the 3rd Free Culture Research
Conference on 8-9th October.
If you would like to participate, you can register at:
If you have ideas for things you’d like to discuss, please add them at:
To take part in discussion on these topics before and after this event, please join:
- http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/pd-discuss
- http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-bibliography
Dr. Jonathan Gray is Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, where he is currently writing a book on data worlds. He is also Cofounder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris). More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org and he tweets at @jwyg.
So sorry to miss this, Jonathan! I’ll look forward to proceedings after the fact.
Nice to see you in SF at any rate :)
Best wishes for the meeting. We are working on the #jiscopenbib project and starting to get some significant material – both libraries and scientific publications. We are also drawing up some Open Bibliography principles in OKF and #jiscopenbib that will help putting our case to potential providers.