Many thanks, Perian. It's really interesting to see this kick up the rear being delivered by the CC community. I found the FAQs page on the search project (http://learn.creativecommons.org/projects/oesearch/oesearch-faq/) to be especially useful in understanding where they're coming from, what they think about the rich metadata standards out there, and how they propose to just GET THINGS MOVING, one way or another. Provocative and pragmatic! Good luck to them, I will start thinking about how we can contribute.
Cheers, Jeremy Jeremy Ottevanger Web Developer, Museum Systems Team Museum of London Group 46 Eagle Wharf Road London. N1 7ED Tel: 020 7410 2207 Fax: 020 7600 1058 Email: jottevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk www.museumoflondon.org.uk Museum of London is changing; our lower galleries will be closed while they undergo a major new development. Visit www.museumoflondon.org.uk to find out more. London's Burning - explore how the Great Fire of London shaped the city we see today www.museumoflondon.org.uk/londonsburning -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: 26 July 2007 16:52 To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: [MCN-L] Creative Commons launches ccLearn FYI. Thought it would be of interest to many. >From their website at http://learn.creativecommons.org/ ccLearn is a division of Creative <http://creativecommons.org/> Commons <http://creativecommons.org/> which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources> ). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials - legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers. * With legal barriers, we advocate for licensing of educational materials under interoperable terms, such as those provided by Creative Commons licenses, that allow unhampered modification, remixing, and redistribution. We also educate teachers, learners, and policy makers about copyright and fair-use issues pertaining to education. * With technical barriers, we promote interoperability standards and tools to facilitate remixing and reuse. * With social barriers, we encourage teachers and learners to re-use educational materials available on the Web, and to build on each other's contributions. Perian Sully Collection Database & Records Administrator Judah L. Magnes Museum 2911 Russell St. Berkeley, CA 94705 510-549-6950 x 335 http://www.magnes.org Contributor, http://www.musematic.org _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
