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== Project management ==
 
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OpenAttribute: building the world's simplest open attribution tool Project Description
 
<br> The project in five sentences:
 
•Creative Commons content is awesome, but attributing it properly can be difficult and confusing.
 
•How-to guides and user education haven't helped much. We need a simple tool everyone can use to do the right thing with the click of a button.
 
•That's why we're building OpenAttribute, a suite of tools that makes it ridiculously simple for anyone to copy and paste the correct attribution for any CC licensed work.
 
•The tools include a simple add-on for web browsers, and plug-ins for popular publishing platforms like Flickr, Wordpress, MediaWiki and Drupal.
 
•The result: OpenAttribute makes it easy for everyday people to use open and Creative Commons content. And ensures content creators get credit for their work.
 
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The project in one page:
 
Open Attribute: the world's simplest open attribution tools Open Attribute is a project to build attribution generators for Creative Commons licensed content. We’re building simple tools for a range of platforms so that re-using and attributing open content is as easy as cut and paste.
 
The problem: Creative Commons licensed content is awesome, but attributing it properly can be difficult and confusing. The first rule for re-using openly licensed content is that you have to properly attribute the creator. There are specific requirements for what needs to go into that attribution, and most people don’t know what they are or how to follow them. How-to guides and user education haven't helped much; too many people are still confused about what to put into an attribution and how to format it.
 
The solution: A simple tool everyone can use to do the right thing with the click of a button. That's why we're building OpenAttribute, a suite of tools that makes it ridiculously simple for anyone to copy and paste the correct attribution for any CC licensed work. These tools will query the metadata around a CC-licensed object and export it in a properly formatted attribution that users can copy and paste wherever they need to. Citation generators already exist for lots of academic bibliographic formats and many different settings. By building on those tools to produce attributions, we’re creating a clean solution to a messy problem.
 
The tools include a simple add-on for web browsers, and plug-ins for popular publishing platforms like Flickr, Wordpress, MediaWiki and Drupal. To make automated attribution generation really useful, we need to enable it in a variety of contexts. We need several tools in several places. With an add-on for browsers, users will be able to pull RDFa from any site where it’s available and produce formatted attributions; plugins and widgets for open content publishing platforms like Wordpress and Drupal, will allow creators to facilitate proper attribution of their work.
 
The result: OpenAttribute makes it easy for everyday people to use Creative Commons licensed content. And ensures content creators get credit for their work. There is an enormously rich pool of open content out there, the easier we can make it to use and reuse that content, the better.
 
You can get involved
 
•Collaborate on a functional spec for the tools
 
•Help with browser add-on, Wordpress and Drupal plugin development
 
•Become an alpha tester
 
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POTENTIAL PROJECT NAMES:
 
•Attaboy +3
 
•(I don't love using a gendered name - Molly) +1
 
•CAT (Commons Attribution Tool)
 
•ChalkUp +2
 
•(Given Molly's note about gender, this is my new favorite as a temporary working title. Cuz it's so short. e.g., "#drumbeat #chalkup")
 
•Copy Credit
 
•Creative Credit
 
•CreditDue
 
•OpenAttribute +3
 
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GET INVOLVED. How can people help the project right now?
 
•Join the project mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/attrib-generator
 
•Developers who can help advise &amp; build. (Before they start building, they probably need to help spec it and advise on technical strategy.)
 
•The first step here is to develop a functional spec. A lot of developers will only get onboard if everything is spelled out and formatted specifically for their techie brains. This document is on the way and could be utilized for the FS.
 
•Basic FS points (these will, of course, be modified for this specific tool)
 
•Project Overview with User Model
 
•Concepts
 
•Public Features (if separate from Admin)
 
•Admin Features (if separate from Public)
 
• Technical Considerations (Security &amp; Metatagging)
 
• Recommended Softwares or Implementations/Examples and Review of preexisting tools
 
• Open Issues
 
• Turn this etherpad into a crisp one-page overview of the project.
 
• Provide feedback on potential names, or suggest others. Don't have to be perfect or final -- just need a working title we can use for now.
 
• We need to ensure that what we're proposing to build doesn't exist already. What's the competitive / co-opetive landscape or ecology?
 
<br> WHAT ALREADY EXISTS?
 
• What other solutions already exist that we might collaborate with or learn from?
 
• What can we learn from Citation Machine/Son of Citation Machine? (http://citationmachine.net/)
 
• How much of this functionality can be built on top of existing free citation tools like the Zotero plugin?
 
• We have a specific kind of data that is being cited (media with CC RDF information) and we have a specific kind of citation we want (something capable of being inserted into other web tools) but the general problem of citation creation, formating, and sharing has some very capable tools already.
 
• The attribution tool from Xpert: http://bit.ly/9z7GBX by @patlockley. Can we collaborate with them? Can we build off of what they've already built?
 
• @msbonn Bryan Smith et al over in MPub are noodling on citation generators for our content (open and not). Might be worth touching base.
 
• CC Metadata Humanizer: (http://code.creativecommons.org/~john/?url=http://joi.ito.com/) (courtesy of John Doig! - I think he's on the mailing list now..)
 
• example, in terms of simple user interaction (this tool is NOT ideal as according to piet it is nearly impossible to format correctly): OCW cite/attribute, ie. http://ocw.korea.edu/ocw
 
• Flickr already has a "Share this" drop-down that points to "Grab the html/bbc code". Now to add RDFa, license info to that... +1
 
• on Wikimedia Commons:
 
• Choose a random file, for instance http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zebras_Ngorongoro_Crater.jpg
 
• Click "Use this file on the Web"
 
• Then you can copy/paste the attribution (text or HTML format, but without RDFa)
 
• (Please list others here)
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