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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?– [email protected]
Wiki– http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/program:cc-adoption-metrics
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