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
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Museum of London Group
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-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] 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
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