A few general tasks came up a number of times this week. Each could perhaps use an entity devoted to it -- something to get a partner org to commit to. Some may /have/ groups devoted to them.
1. copyright hounding. annenberg has some materials -- who stays in touch with them, tracks copyright status, asks for a freer license, and updates status for all when it's changed? an author has printed something nice with no explicit license; or a work seems orphaned -- who tracks down the pulisher and author and ohters with an interest in the rights and makes formal requests / tries to negotiate? an author has stated sth should be free for academic use -- who stores that info in an accessible form for people who weren't physically there, and knows how to get written confirmation? 2. Updating existing accessible works : who improves OCR, makes new formats, updates dated information, pushes updates to major repositories? who correlates various works with the same or similar names in databases such as the Open Library's? who figures out how to 3. Organizing new works to spec : someone has a specific need for a type of book, manual, or text. Tracking the progress of that project, through booksprint, wiki barnraising, scanning or other collaboration. helping refine the spec over time, independent of any particular implementation. _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
