[cc-community] cc usage stats

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Mon Nov 27 18:40:20 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 00:16 +0100, Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> 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
> 

I don't think you are off-topic, but I want us to channel this recent
discussion and energy onto the wiki space so that we can achieve these
goals collectively.

The best way to achieve this is to do it :)

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Statisics

Jon

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