ACIA 2008

2008-01-20

Toward Useful Creative Commons Adoption

Metrics

Mike Linksvayer
Vice 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

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1: 90 million
 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 thats
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?
ml@creativecommons.org

Wiki
http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/program:cc-adoption-metrics

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