Roadmap

Ongoing initiatives

Build a community of legal experts who might be interested in using / contributing to the development of new Public Domain Flowcharts.
Build a community of developers who might be interested in using / contributing to the Public Domain Calculators codebase.

Milestone 1 – Clean Standalone Library [February 2011]

The goal is to have a working standalone PDCalc library as quickly as possible, as well as a proper documentation of the API, to get the whole thing ready for new contributors. This involves the following steps:

Proper beta-testing of the current PDCalc implementation
Create a “starter kits” documentation for new comers
for developers who are interested in implementing a new PDCalculators
for developers who are interested in creating a software that interacts with a PDCalculators
Make a proper webpage for that library with all the relevant information

Milestone 2 – New PD Calculators [March 2011]

Ping all PD calculators contacts for update on how they are doing, and whether they are the correct person to continue to talk to (i.e. are they active, who is the best person to be in touch with regarding the PD Calculator in their country, etc).
Make better guidelines for PDCalculators, to be eventually integrated into publicdomaincalculators.okfn.org/guide.
If possible start working on a Flowcharts guideline together with Elizabeth Townsend-Gard – for launch at the OKCon in June.
Find people willing to implement the already submitted flowcharts

Milestone 3 – PublicDomainWorks.net [April 2011]

In this milestone, we focus on PDWorks.net as a particular implementation of an application for the PDCalc library.

Fully integrate PDCalc with Bibliographica: TODO: Tatiana or Rufus – could you complete the description of that milestone because I am not sure how to proceed with that one. PDWorks.net should query the bibliographica db, run the pdcalc, and output only those works who are in the pd for the selected jurisdiction.
update the PDworks code to rely upon the Bibliographica DB (rdf store)
update the PDworks code to process the DB with the PDCalc library
update the PDworks code to work with different jurisdictions, not only uk
Webdesign – the current website design is ugly
Create a home page that explains what the project is about, how it interracts with Bibliographica and PDCalculators
Implement a “browse” section in addition to the “search” so that people can see the whole collection of “PD works” we have:
full integration with the Bibliographica DB
better faceted browsing: list of public domain works page, per type, per medium, per country, per language, per percentage, per date, etc
Eliminate the percentage in the end of the search results
Have pdworks.net disclose the assumption taken, as opposed to only an accuracy percentage
Restore the “random PD work” in the front page
Identify what kind of data we would need that is not (yet) provided by Bibliographica and let them know we consider this data to be important.

Milestone 4 – Collect new Metadata [May 2011]

Collect metadata on text works
Collect metadata on images / artworks / photographs – linked to digital collections (Wikimedia Commons, Flickr Commons, …)
Retrieve data for the domain model of PDW.net:
work (public domain?): data generated through the PDCalculators
edition (public domain?): data retrieved from library catalogues
digital copy (openly licensed?): data retrieved from projects (e.g. Project Gutenberg) and contributed by users
Identify who are our contacts who publish public domain works – and implement a systematic strategy for making these freely reusable (CC0, etc)

Milestone 5 – OKCon 2011 [June 2011]

We plan to organize 2 workshops with Elizabeth Townsend from Tulane University:

Tutorial for PD Calculators: How to make a PD flowchart An empirical workshop to identify the best strategy for creating PD flowcharts, where we could share our ways of working and talk about other ways of collaborating.
PD works Collage (with Transmediale): A workshop where people are invited to make a collage with works from a variety of countries and eras, whose copyright status has been established beforehand by the PD calculators in various jurisdictions. We would then, as part of the workshop, create various works of art and investigate which works can or cannot be done in different jurisdictions. This would allow us to explore questions such as: How does the art change if you figure in copyright laws? Do you look at copyright status before or after creating the work? Would other areas of the law — fair use, classroom or library exceptions — allow the use even if the work was under copyright?

Milestone 6 – New Flowcharts [July 2011]

This is a call for contribution, where we try and convince people that producing a national flowchart is fun.

Write down a series of guidelines on how to implement a PDCalc flowchart for any given jurisdiction, possibly taking from what we learnt at the OKCon workshop.
Increase awareness of the PDCalculators and try and get more people involved into the project.
Possibility of funding the making of Flowcharts?

Milestone 7 – User-friendly PDCalc web API [August 2011]

The focus is on the user interface. The goal is to make the a web interface which is both beautiful and nice to use. I’m not sure about the purpose yet, but I’m sure we’ll find one eventually

Make it flowchart-like (i.e. with new blobs popping up as you click along the chart)
Implement it with javascript / svg