[cc-community] cc usage stats

Alek Tarkowski alek.tarkowski at creativecommons.pl
Mon Nov 27 18:16:45 EST 2006


at the risk of veering slightly off topic and going on a wild and 
abstract academic tangent, I think that the development of the 'metrics 
/ stats' issue should include coming up with more transparent 
information about these statistics - currently a number based on highly 
fluctuating measurements and with several other serious difficulties 
(most importantly, not every 'hit' is a full fledged 'work') becomes 
transformed into a number: "150m licenses!" that gets widely presented 
with a high dose of certainty. i've seen this number in use and it 
*does* make a big impression - but I nevertheless feel transparency is 
important and at least in one point on the net there should be clear 
information about all the caveats surrounding the number.

furthermore, i think we could come up with less spectacular (at least 
initially) but more meaningful statistics - like number of journals 
using CC licensing; number of publishers; number of universities; number 
of press agencies (one? - Agencia Brasil - that's still a pretty good 
number after four years, I think)... and so on.

cheers,

alek tarkowski

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