[cc-community] cc usage stats

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Mon Nov 27 18:55:37 EST 2006


OOop...I created this one and put this content there:

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Statisics

Jon

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 15:28 -0800, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I agree absolutely.  http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_statistics
> contains a highly accurate if very imprecise statement "Estimating
> license adoption is a *very* inexact science."
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yep, I encourage you to create http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics
> or similar to record these ideas.
> 
> Another item in the queue is consistently gathering statistics from
> curators, e.g., those at
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_curators -- Flickr alone at
> 20something million images is pretty impressive.
> 
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