Class Teams Project Discussion Forum (Read Only)

Re: Digital Contents - Copyright and Collection Policy Information

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:34:42 GMT

by Trisha Faulhafer.

# 6 Copyright Discussion

Re: Digital Contents - Copyright and Collection Policy Information

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:33:40 GMT

by Trisha Faulhafer.

#5 Citation guidelines

Re: Digital Libraries

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:13:01 GMT

by Margaret Lam.

The international Music Score Project: http://imslp.org/
Magnum Photos Archive http://www.magnumphotos.com/
MICHAEL portal (European) http://www.michael-culture.org/en/home

Re: digital contents - content organization / classification

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:01:02 GMT

by Margaret Lam.

This is a First Nations community news source, but they have very transparent categories right on the bottom of their page:

http://www.wawataynews.ca/

It's a good reference for portal design as well for us.

Re: digital contents - content organization / classification

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:42:38 GMT

by Ben Gee.

thanks peeps

Re: Digital Contents: Community Generated Materials and Archival Literacy

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:30:40 GMT

by Ericka Brosseau.

I uploaded the brochure to the main page...or at least I think I did! I have a second one in the works that has more detail

Re: digital contents - content organization / classification

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:46:15 GMT

by Trisha Faulhafer.

hey Ben,
Jesslyn directed me to a facebook group that had a link for this centre:

http://www.cier.ca/

The Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources.

Not sure if you've looked at it, but it might be something you could look at to see how it's organized and classified.

Re: digital contents - content organization / classification

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:19:50 GMT

by Jesslyn Stoncius.

http://meeting.knet.ca/moodle/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=2783

Check out Fernando's paper on an Indigenous Knowledge Repository, and the ideas he brought up when he visited our class.

response from Prof Caidi

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:58:20 GMT

by Erica Sum.

Prof Caidi emailed to say she is having problems logging onto Moodle, so I am posting her feedback on the FAQ so everyone understands how I have edited it:

-

"The community does! This site and its associated products have been
created for aboriginal communities" ADD "for AND WITH Aboriginal
communities" to the sentence.

In the list of sponsors, at the end, remove "Internet Archives". They
have never officially jumped on the bandwagon for this project. We can
always include them later, if they wish. The equipment belongs to the
UT Libraries, and if you want, we can create a "Thank You" or
"Acknowledgments" section on the Moodle where we can thank individuals
like Brian B., Gabe Juszel, Lisa, etc.

As for committing to sending a copy of the books to folks. I am
wondering if it is not too premature, esp. given that there is no web
portal yet for people to "play" with the system in the first place.
Providing pix of the book is already a good indication + the
multimedia experience and the video will give the audience a good
sense of what we are talking about. In other words, I would provide
the ondemandbookservice@gmail.com email as a contact point, but I
don't know if it is ncessary at this point to raise the point you
mentioned.

Re: Digital Libraries

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:32:04 GMT

by Celene Faludi.

The ones I looked at were Project Gutenberg, the Library of Congress, and the European Library. I had a great time learning about all of these, since I didn't know they existed before this class. Doing this assignment really helped me understand the possibilities that digital libraries can provide the ODBS- too bad the paper wasn't due earlier.

By the way, I had some difficulties with accessing the info on the E.L.; it seemed that only certain possibilities presented when searching the E.L. name through Blackle would allow me to reach this library... does anyone have any idea why this would be so difficult?

Re: Digital Contents - Copyright and Collection Policy Information

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:55:02 GMT

by Trisha Faulhafer.

# 4 How to copyright your work

Re: Digital Contents - Copyright and Collection Policy Information

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:54:08 GMT

by Trisha Faulhafer.

#3 Copyright glossary

Re: Digital Contents - Copyright and Collection Policy Information

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:53:40 GMT

by Trisha Faulhafer.

#2 Copyright FAQ

Re: Digital Contents - Copyright and Collection Policy Information

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:53:14 GMT

by Trisha Faulhafer.

Here are the documents that I have been working on. They are also in Sakai.

Here they are in pdf.

#1 Copyright policy

Re: Digital Libraries

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:29:18 GMT

by Andrew Pickles.

I looked at the Internet Archive, the Digital Library of India and Bookshare. We are all familiar with the IA. The Digital Library of India (dli.ernet.in), has quite a broad collection in English and is principally for scholars. It might be of interest to some people, but probably not specifically for the communities we hope to reach. If we want to provide links to as many DLs as possible, put it in, if not it is of marginal usefulness.

Bookshare (bookshare.org) is a really awesome DL for people with print disabilities. It even has copyrighted material available in formats used for braille, audible display and scalable pdf. You have to prove a print disability to become a member and have access, and of course other equipment might be needed for the special formats, but this DL could be really great for people with print disabilities.

-Andrew

Re: please help out w/the odbs FAQ

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:20:23 GMT

by Erica Sum.

1) I think the open access model is a good one for this project, thanks for the suggestion. It also seems that many other class members support this model?

2) As I mentioned to Brian above, perhaps we could publish our final reports here to address the second question.

Re: please help out w/the odbs FAQ

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:18:24 GMT

by Erica Sum.

Thanks for your input Brian. Our class is now working on a final report that is basically the self evaluation exercise you have described. Perhaps it would be good if we could upload those reports on this site, in lieu of any formal plans for the future of the project.

Re: please help out w/the odbs FAQ

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:15:50 GMT

by Erica Sum.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I was working under the assumption that everything we publish here is K-Net's (unlike what we publish on Sakai) and that they have indeed, granted us permission to use their server space and resources. This is how things work in other discussion boards where site admin (e.g. moderators and site owners) usually retain the right to override user's ownership to edit and remove content etc. Site admin also retains the right to control access to content.

What about those who created the ODBS? Do they have a say in how it will be managed?

In this regard, I think non-users of the system could have an advisory role, or have a role of offering skills/resources, but not a managerial one. I don't think it makes sense for outsiders to manage or even co-manage a grass-roots, on the ground project, that ideally, would be tailored to a specific community by community leaders.

Re: Digital Contents - Copyright and Collection Policy Information

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:00:19 GMT

by Trisha Faulhafer.

There is information on Sakai about copyright and I am creating a few documents about copyright and citation issues.

Here is a copy of the email that I sent to Lisa, who spoke to our class a few weeks ago.

Hi Trisha

Unfortunately most of the stuff I know about is aimed at an academic community, so the
guides would discuss educational use provisions and so forth. I don't think it's exactly
what you are looking for, but at York the lawyerly types have put some things up here , for faculty and students,
explaining what copyright is and a bit about the rules. Maybe you'd be able to work with
something like this and just amend to make it less academically-oriented? I'm sure UofT
has something like this up as well. I guess you could also look at public libraries
offering downloadable e-books and see how they handle informing users about copyright
issues? Does TPL have something up on the site you demonstrated in class?

Something else that may be useful, although more focussed on citations than on copyright
per se is our Academic Integrity tutorial . We're just about to go live with a
new version within the next couple of weeks, so keep your eye on the site. Ryerson has a more fun and visually
appealing tutorial that you might look at as well. If you decide to link to either of
these, let me know and I'll just check with the powers that be to make sure we're ok with
it (normally no big deal, but there's been pressure in the past to "monetize" some of
these sorts of online tutorials, with attendant issues around whose intellectual property
they are anyway -- the author's or the university's. (if you go with Ryerson's funkier
version, I'll give you a contact to talk to there. I'm meeting with them this Friday
afternoon actually, if you let me know right away). Anyway, all of the above is sort of
mechanical "what are the rules" information, which might be useful albeit boring, and
they are at least somewhat interactive, rather than just pages and pages of text. Oh and
you could look in Primo -- the ALA's
searchable database of peer-reviewed IL learning objects for other tutorials.

For information that helps educate about the problems with the rules...

On open access -- Peter Suber has a decent introduction, if you want to provide a link in a
section explaining some issues around fee-based vs free access to info, or if you're
creating a lesson plan for librarians/teachers. I'm a big fan of John Willinsky and co's
Public Knowledge Project as well, as you probably
gathered by my insistence on our need to empower and engage our users as activists in
this war. They've got great info in simple language about issues like network neutrality, copyright, open access
-- and why these things matter . You could
also have a link to Michael Geist's blog -- he writes on
Canadian problems particularly.

Tips -- not reinventing the wheel... I see you've figured that out! Also, aside from
creating a section of links, or embedding links where-ever appropriate on these issues,
maybe your outreach team could think about a lesson plan for teachers/librarians on
copyright, using examples from the ODBS? (this pushes both the learning objective and the
tool you are creating....).

Good luck! You can stick this email up in the Moodle if you want, I confess I have been
remiss in checking back in.

best
Lisa

trisha.faulhafer@utoronto.ca wrote:

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hi Lisa,

My name is Trisha, and I am in the Faculty of Information class at the University of
Toronto that you visited last week. I am part of the digital contents team, and we are
looking at copyright/open access information to provide on the ODBS. We had it in mind
in our literature review, but your discussion made us realize that it is very important

We want users to have an understanding of what they can do with the information that is
on the digital library, and what they can do in terms of rights when they create their
own work. We want to keep it simple. I've consulted the CIPO website, creative commons
website and the open content alliance websites. I have also looked on UofT's library
website for information. I will also be looking at other digital library websites to see
how they discuss copyright in ways that users will understand without having to research
the topic in depth.

[-- the ODBS is going to basically be a digital library, with some stuff being public
domain and printable, etc... but A LOT of other resources being copyright material still
--]

We were also thinking of having some simple information about citation styles, or at
least links to other websites that provide citation guidelines, for example UofT has one
and they have a fair use policy, etc...

I was wondering if you are aware of anything that might be very useful to us, for
example, documents that already exist to explain to users about copyright, etc.??? or if
you have any other tips for me

thanks so much for your help!

Trisha Faulhafer

Re: Digital Libraries

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:54:00 GMT

by Trisha Faulhafer.

hey Jesslyn,

these are the 3 that I analyzed:

International Digital Children's Library: http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

Perseus DIgital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
(I noticed that one of the respondants to the survey is interested in Classical Studies!)

DIgital Library of India: http://dli.iiit.ac.in/