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CC International Legal Day

2008-07-29

Creative Commons Adoption Metrics Update

Mike LinksvayerVice President, Creative Commons

Original photo by bategaLicensed under CC Attribution 2.0http://flickr.com/photos/batega/2056949264/

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130 million?

● New estimate (taken 2008-07) of minimum number of CC licensed works (was 90 million as of 2007-12)

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

● Uses simple scaling of numbers of licenses found at Flickr and Yahoo! search results

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Scaling code, needs work

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CC Metrics Portal, needs WORK

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CC Metrics Portal Objectives

● Make data available to researchers● Make research results available to CC

network, press, activists in pretty form● Improve metrics through open source/wiki

style collaboration● Motivate sites to brag about having the

biggest, best quality, and most free collections

● Foster transparency

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Data Availability Now

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

● Search engine license link queries● Search engine license API queries● Flickr license counts

Warning: the data is very messy.

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Current data gathering efforts

● Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations (ODEPO) – data + analysis forthcoming from ccLearn

● ccREL adoption● Content Directories● Include data in case studies

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Some of the things we want to know

● Overall growth, causes● Regional variation, causes● Genre and type growth, causes● How extensive is verbatim republishing,

derivative use?● How is license use evolving? More

freedom?● How is open licensing changing culture?● How are CC tools used?

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Some of the things you can do to help

● Document success stories as case studies, preferably with numbers

● Document local content directories, preferably with numbers

● Research● Critiques of research● Code for CC metrics projects

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Curious data from elsewhere as a segue to Girogos’

presentation

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Google Trends: visitors to creativecommons.org

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Google Trends: searches for “creative commons”

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

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

Questions?– ml@creativecommons.org

CC Metrics Portal– http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics

Original photo by Charlyn WLicensed under CC Attribution 2.0http://flickr.com/photos/charlynw/233225197/