[cc-community] cc usage stats
Jon Phillips
jon at rejon.org
Mon Nov 27 18:56:18 EST 2006
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 00:41 +0100, Bjorn Wijers wrote:
> I completly agree, that we need to find more 'stable' statistics and
> better methodologies.
>
> Perhaps we can introduce a optional 'phone-home' protocol (based on REST
> or a maybe plain RSS/OPML feed/) which allows content curators to
> automagically send to a script located at CC.org? Just to make it
> easier, because if other content curators are just as sloppy as I am,
> the wiki will be/is quickly outdated.
> ps: I just updated the numbers for Simuze ;)
Cool...how is that ccHost conversion going ?
> grtz
> BjornW
>
>
> 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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