WMCH:Call for projects 2014:Public Domain Project

Full project name: Public Domain Project

Legal name of organization or individual submitting this grant: Swiss Foundation Public Domain
Project nature: Volunteer driven

Project contact name: Carl Flisch
Project contact username or email: fuchur(at)pdproject.org
Project contact title (position): Member of the Board (Secretary)
Project contact affiliation:

Category: GLAM
Working group associated, if any:

Matching founds: none
Conflict of interest: none
Other partners: Init Seven AG, Wikimedia Deutschland, Zurich University of the Arts

Provisional target start date: 1 January 2014
Provisional completion date: 31 December 2014

Project goal

The Public Domain Project is a open-minded (open to all people) project under the supervision of the Swiss Foundation Public Domain. The major activity is the conservation and utilization of public domain music and film material. Our archives includes over 50,000 78 rpm records, cylinders and discs of Edison and Pathé that we have to clean and digitize.

Project scope and list of activities

2008: discussions started to create a public domain music archive
2009: Init Seven AG, a Swiss business provider sponsors the bandwith for the Public Domain Radio
2009: basis of the digitized media archive: restorm.com sponsored a disk array server
2010: Wikimedia Deutschland "WissensWert" contest: we won and got the ELP laser turntable
2011: a collector joins and donates 35,000 78 rpm gramophone records
2012: new server hosting sponsor: Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdk)
2012: the project becomes a charitable foundation under the supervision of the Swiss Confederation
2013: the tax authorities grant the tax exemption (Article 9, paragraph 2, letter i StHG)

See also

• Call for projects 2013 (members only)
• Call for projects 2014 (members only)