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FAQ
== Project management ==
 
== FAQ ==
 
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
 
• What does "attribute" and "attribution" mean? Why should I care about it?
 
• Simple, one or two-sentence anwswer in a nutshell, anyone? :)
 
• To define "attribute" let's just break the word into two words, as in "a" "tribute". Basically, attribution is giving "a" "tribute" to the person that created the awesome content you're using. Why should you care? Because content creators using creative commons licenses care about giving you access to their creations...
 
• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_do_I_properly_attribute_a_Creative_Commons_licensed_work.3F
 
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• What's the specific problem this project will help solve? How does it make the web more open and awesome?
 
• Lots of people are using Creative Commons and other open licenses to share their work. We need a tool that can 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.
 
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• What's the difference between "attribution" and "citation?"
 
• Answer: This project is aimed at attribution, not citation. Attribution and citation are different things, even though the tools to generate them will likely end up being technically similar.
 
• Citation = a scholarly practice for tracking the idealogical underpinnings of a work. Usually referencing sources like published books, articles, government documents, primary sources, etc
 
• Attribution = crediting a copyright holder according to the terms of a copyright license. Usually (though not always) crediting artistic works like music, fiction, video, and photography.
 
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• What's the itch you're trying to scratch?
 
• Citation generators already exist for lots of different bibliographic formats and many different settings. This project should be able to build on that work.
 
• However, as far as we have been able to find, there is still no automated tool that pulls the necessary metadata about an openly licensed work and formats it into a cut and pasteable attribution.
 
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• What's the right technological approach for this project?
 
• We need some developers and smart technical minds with some early thoughts on the tech landscape and strategy here.
 
• Please dive in here or on the mailing list.
 
• Maybe a simpler technical solution would be to focus on the bookmarklet (aka, "browser add-on").
 
• Most big sites/libraries are loathe to implement third-party features that aren't in some way "standard."
 
• It's possible that a better use of our energy is to build the bookmarklet and lobby the sites to implement standard RDFa.
 
• When we talked about how to tackle this at Drumbeat, the group agreed that beginning with the bookmarklet / add-on probably made a lot of sense, even though it won't reach all the people we want to reach.
 
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• What specifically will the project build?
 
• Answer: To make automated attribution generation really useful, we need to enable it in a variety of contexts. We need several tools in several places:
 
• An add-on for browsers. A simple tool users can install in their browsers that will pull RDFa from sites where it’s available and produce formatted attributions
 
• Plugins and widgets. Built for open content publishing platforms like Wordpress and Drupal, as well as social media sites, that will place a button on web pages where licensed content appears. Users could click on the button to get a correctly formatted attribution.
 
• An attribution generator tool. For closed content platforms (like Flickr) that share lots of openly licensed content. (or just for them to implement RDFa?)
 
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• Who are the key AUDIENCES or "customers" for this project?
 
• Is this targeted at the end user? Or at a handful of big partners (Creative Commons, Flickr, Wordpress, etc.) who in turn deliver a large number of end users for the tool?
 
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• Is the tool intended primarily / exclusively for Creative Commons content? Or other use cases as well?
 
• e.g., What's the difference between saying "open content" vs. "CC content"?
 
• It might be interesting to implement this to out of copyright content as well. Just because something is out of copyright doesn't mean it shouldn't be attributed...just a thought (or even in copyright—does that belie the point?) - Do you mean attributing fair use cases, and if so how do we implement something that can judge if the usage is fair use or does it matter?
 
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/
 
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• Is this a "suite" of tools (plural)? Or a "tool" (singular)?
 
• (or a "project," if there's a big emphasis on lobbying sites)
 
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• What format will the attributions use?
 
• Answer: Print (plain text) and web (HTML with RDFa)
 
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• What citation scheme will you use?
 
• MLA, APA? Multiple options?
 
• Answer: None, because this is an attribution tool, not a citation tool. Citation generators already exist for all those different bibliographic formats. What we want is an additional output - not a citation, but a proper attribution that conforms to the requirements of a CC (or other open content) license.
 
• Lots of things that are needed in a "properly formatted" citation won't be included in the creator-provided metadata. Do we need to build a robust citation generator, or how simple will the attribution be?
 
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• Will this provide a simple attribution based on what's specified in the RDFa?
 
• RDFa (or Resource Description Framework – in – attributes) is a W3C Recommendation that adds a set of attribute level extensions to XHTML for embedding rich metadata within Web documents.
 
• Are we doing a simple attribution based on what's specified in the RDFa? or formatting that information into a proper citation?
 
• I think a simple attribution is best - then others can adapt to their needs if they want to build a citation tool based on it for specific fields
 
• What is the "baseline" of data recommended in RDFa? Will it be hard to change that?
 
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• What's the user experience like?
 
• For people using / attributing Creative Commons content:
 
• Browser add-on: Click a button in your browser. A sidebar appears with the formatted attribution in plain text and HTML.
 
• (Then what happens? How does the process end?) (User copies the attribution, closes the sidebar, and pastes it wherever it needs pasting)
 
• Platform-based tool: Click a link or button that appears on the content landing page or the download page (if there is one). (ie. Flickr's "Share this" - then "grab the html/bbc code" on any photo)
 
• A pop-up (e.g., using ajax or javascript) offers plain text and HTML options for copying and pasting the attribution.
 
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• For content creators / authors:
 
• Platform based tool: The author provides their preferred name for attribution. And has the option to include CC+ information about contact information for additional permissions.
 
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• What metadata will be included in the attribution?
 
• Required attribution elements (metadata fields to query):
 
• 1) Title of the work being attributed
 
• 2) Attribution name (e.g., author, company, username)
 
• 3) Source URL for the attributed work
 
• 4) CC license name (i.e. CC-BY, Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial)
 
• 5) CC license URL
 
• existing copyright notices? see http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#How_do_I_properly_attribute_a_Creative_Commons_licensed_work.3F
 
• Optional attribution elements (CC+)
 
• 1) URL for the author site
 
• 2) Contact information for additional permissions
 
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• What "closed" platforms will you support?
 
• Flickr
 
• Blip.tv
 
• Vimeo
 
• Soundcloud
 
• Jamendo
 
• All those other CC-based music sites
 
• (in a way, we're just asking them to implement RDFa? -Ben)
 
• (In a fantasty world, they'd do more than that - they would build an "attribute this" button into every page that users could click to get a properly formatted attribution. Nearly all academic databases include a "cite this" button - same principle, only for attributions - Molly)
 
<br> What "open" platforms will you support? (what do we know about these platforms' plug-in systems? can we write once and port easily?)
 
--I would think that a plugin for Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla and all the rest of the PHP based content management systems would be a once over in one system and then a quick port. If the PHP is clean, it should be easy to write it for multiple platforms.
just sharing— could be a cool test case:
 
http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/ http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/12586624/Auto_rickshaw
 
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• Wikipedia (MediaWiki)
 
• Drupal
 
• Wordpress
 
• Zotero
 
• DSpace
 
• ccMixter
 
• (what do we know about these platforms' plug-in systems? can we write once and port easily?)
 
• --I would think that a plugin for Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla and all the rest of the PHP based content management systems would be a once over in one system and then a quick port. If the PHP is clean, it should be easy to write it for multiple platforms.
 
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• What's an example of what the plain text attribution would look like?
 
• For example:
 
• My Drumbeat Experience / Pieter Kleymeer (@bagabot) / Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
 
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• What's an example of what the HTML attribution looks like?
 
• Code for the pasteable HTML attribution, w/ RDFa
 
• &lt;a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"&gt;&lt;img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/88x31.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
<span>My Drumbeat Experience</span> by &lt;a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://open.umich.edu" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL"&gt;Pieter Kleymeer (@bagabot)&lt;/a&gt; is licensed under a &lt;a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"&gt;Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License&lt;/a&gt;.
Based on a work at &lt;a xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" href="http://flickr.com" rel="dct:source"&gt;flickr.com&lt;/a&gt;.
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