Thanks Peter, FWIW I strongly feel that we should limit this to reviewing cultural works that have entered the public domain because copyright has expired, rather than broadening to include all forms of open knowledge. I think we could consider doing similar domain specific things for other areas (e.g. a blog on interesting public datasets, which is something I've been thinking about a bit recently). If we broaden this too much to focus on all forms of open knowledge, we risk narrowing those who are interested in it to... people who are already interested in open knowledge, like the people on this list. ;-)
One of the main points of this project is to reach and engage with new audiences - e.g. those who are interested in cultural works (not just those which are 'open'), scholars, artists, writers and so on. Regarding the name - again I would reiterate that there will be a significant transaction cost associated with switching. Its not just a case of renaming the website and the domain, but of creating and migrating a mailing list, renaming the Twitter account, explaining to everyone that the name has changed, rebranding everything, and so on. And is 'Publicana' or 'Chronicle of Public Works' or 'Open Review of Books' really going to tell visitors *that* much more than the 'Public Domain Review' does? FWIW I rather like the simplicity and directness of the name. More on the background of the project here: http://jonathangray.org/2010/10/17/introducing-the-public-domain-review/ I started this thread to ask for advise on how we can promote the project, and it appears to be turning into one in which I'm trying to defend the name and concept behind the project! ;-) All the best, Jonathan On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a great resource. It could easily become a classic. However the name > MUST be changed (I didn't give it two thoughts). I'd omit the word review > and - go for something Latin, like "Publicana". > This gives us the chance to review things other than formal book content - > databases, government info, maps, genes, etc. could be very interesting. > Indeed it could become a showcase for the OKF - we were trying two weeks ago > to see how newcomers to OKF could be given a quick introduction to what OKF > did. This is one area... > > P. > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://blog.okfn.org http://twitter.com/jwyg http://identi.ca/jwyg _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
