acia 2008: toward useful creative commons adoption metrics

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ACIA 2008

2008-01-20

Toward Useful Creative Commons Adoption Metrics

Mike LinksvayerVice President, Creative Commons

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No New Graphs?

● See my 2007 Dubrovnik presentation– http://www.slideshare.net/mlinksva/creative-commons-metrics/

● Giorgos has the best goods– http://pml.wikidot.org

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Four pre-announcements

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1: 90 million

● New estimate (taken 2006-12) of minimum number of CC licensed works

● Using methodology similar to described by Giorgos Cheliotis in June (finding minimum 45-60m based on 2006-01 data)

● Number to satisfy distribution of licenses at Flickr and Yahoo! search results

1: 90 million

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2: CC Metrics Portal

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics

(forthcoming)

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3: Data Dump

All metrics collected by CC over the years will be available for download as MySQL and CSV dumps to encourage analysis.

Warning: the data is very messy.

(forthcoming)

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4: ccREL

● Finer grained licensing● Machine readable attribution● Derivatives tracking● Exposed on deed● More and better metadata = easier and

more interesting metrics● http://wiki.creativecommons.org/ccREL

(forthcoming)

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Some of the things we want to know

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Quantitative

● Overall growth, causes● Regional variation, causes● Genre and type growth, causes● Derivative use● Plain republishing● How is license use evolving? More

freedom?

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Qualitative

● High quality content● Use cases, success stories● Awards?● Discovery● Role of attention data (hey that’s

quantitative)● How is open licensing changing culture?

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Some of the things you can do to help

● Find good CC licensed stuff● Document success stories as case studies● Code for CC metrics projects● Research● Critiques of research

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License– http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Attribution– Author: Mike Linksvayer– Link: http://creativecommons.org

Questions?– ml@creativecommons.org

Wiki– http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/program:cc-adoption-metrics

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