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  • From: Gavin Baker <gavin AT gavinbaker.com>
  • To: commons-research AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Commons-research] Quantification analysis of Australian domain web harvests held by the National Library of Australia
  • Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:02:41 -0400

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Ben,

You might considering posting a description of your research on the
"Research in progress" on the Open Access Directory wiki:

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Research_in_progress

Ben Bildstein wrote:
| Hi commons researchers,
|
| The National Library of Australia has been crawling the Australian web
| (defining the Australian web is of course an issue in itself). I'm going
| to be running some quantification analysis over at least some of this
| crawl (actually plural, crawls - there is a 2005 crawl, a 2006 crawl and
| a 2007 crawl), probably starting with a small part of the crawl and then
| scaling up.
|
| Possible outcomes from this include:
|
| * Some meaningful consideration of how many web pages, on average,
| come about from a single decision to use a licence. For example,
| if you licence your blog and put a licence statement into your
| blog template, that would be one decision to use the licence,
| arguably one licensed work (your blog), but actually 190 web pages
|
<http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.cyberlawcentre.org/unlocking-ip/blog/&start=900>
| (with permalinks and all). I've got a few ideas about how to
| measure this, which I can go in to more depth about.
| * How much of the Australian web is licensed, both proportionally
| (one page in X, one web site in X, or one 'document' in X), and in
| absolute terms (Y web pages, Y web sites, Y 'documents').
| * Comparison of my results to proprietary search-engine based
| answers to the same question, to put my results in context.
| * Comparison of various licensing mechanisms, including but not
| limited to: hyperlinks, natural language statements, dc rights in
| <meta> tags, rdf+xml.
| * Comparison of use of various licences, and licensing elements.
| * Changes in the answers to these questions over time.
|
| This e-mail is to garner other potential outcomes, or hazards I should
| be careful of, or questions I should keep in mind, or better ways of
| doing the analysis. I'm not making a specific request for ideas here,
| but rather wanted to give everyone the opportunity to suggest or set me
| right or such, and now seems like the time.
|
| Thanks,
|
| Ben.
|
| e: ben.bildstein AT student.unsw.edu.au
| <mailto:ben.bildstein AT student.unsw.edu.au>
| b: http://cyberlawcentre.org/hoc
| m: 0408 134466
|
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Gavin Baker
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