Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Leigh Blackall <leighblackall AT gmail.com>]

To be brutally honest Jessica, the information around the Open Archives projects is a mess! I think I counted 3, maybe 4 sites of information. When I waded through the verbose statements to find links to the "principles" I saw a wiki with quite inappropriately loud advertising all over it, more waffle, and finally some principles and brief case studies that could just as well been links out to Wikipedia articles. that must be less than a complete version...!

So, there's plenty of opportunity to get involved :) but I'm not sure I completely understand the intent, and if this is a project I should get involved in..

What I want to lobby is for Australian collection agencies like the National Archive, to align with projects like the Archive.org and Wiki Media Commons, and "federate" their content. I also want them to do more in capturing Australian digital culture on its way out to commercial servers like Youtube. To do this, I want to suggest they take a look at media distribution tools like Pixel Pipe, and offer such tools for people to use, where we can upload media in one single upload across preferred publishing sites (youtube, WikiMedia Commons, Archive.org) and consider adding the National Archive and other little Australian projects if we wish. Putting this as a principle would go something like this:

> Position Australian collection agencies between Australian producers and their preferred publishing sites, by offering valuable tool sets for publishing that attract usage, and invite copy to be sent to the collecting agency on its way out to international servers.

I would have offered this suggestion if it was easy or clear on where to leave it, but replied you instead. Hope you'll relay it to the appropriate people.

Regards
Leigh

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Leigh Blackall <leighblackall AT gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jessica,

The link to the principles appears broke: http://creativecommons.org.au/?attachment_id=2386

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Jessica Coates <j2.coates AT qut.edu.au> wrote:

Dear all

As some of you may already have seen on our blog, I am please to announce that Creative Commons Australia's sister research project, Opening Australia’s Archives, has released a first version of its Open Access Principles for Australian Collecting Institutions.

For those who haven't come across the Opening Australia's Archives project, it was initiated in 2009 to explore opportunities to increase the public’s ability to access and reuse our national collections through coordinated sector-policy, implementation and advocacy. Its first major activity was to run a series of meetings around Australia in late 2009 aimed at facilitating discussion between representatives of the cultural sector on the issue of open access collections.

One of the main pieces of feedback from these forums was the need  for a set of simple principles or guidelines that set out what open access is and how it may be instituted by a collecting body. The Principles are a response to this feedback. They aim to assist institutions exploring digital strategies by describing basic open access policies and strategies that may be of use to them. They also provide case studies of successful open access initiatives in the sector both in Australia and worldwide.

You can find more information the Principles, as well as rich text, pdf and wiki versions, at http://creativecommons.org.au/research/openarchives and http://www.ip.qut.edu.au/opening_access_to_australian_archives.

In line with the commitment during the Creative Archive meetings, we intend these Principles to be a growing and collaborative project that draws on expertise across the sector. Thus the version released this week is merely Version 1. This version draws on discussion at the meetings and subsequent feedback from interested members of the Australian collecting sector. However, we would like to invite and encourage feedback on this version, to further align it with the needs and expectations of the sector.

Please feel free to provide feedback on the Principles in any form you like – as comments, as tracked changes, as a written email, or through the wiki. Any feedback we receive will be used to update and improve the Principles for future versions.

Sorry for any cross-postings.

Jessica Coates
Alumni
Creative Commons Australia and ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation
email: jessica.m.coates AT gmail.com.au
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