PD:Timeline
View the key events of the Public Domain Project:
2009
January
Establishment of the Public Domain Project
December
The Public Domain Radio starts his broadcasting
2010
January
The MediaWiki of the Public Domain Project goes online
December
The Public Domain Project is among the winners of the first competition of ideas of
Wikimedia Deutschland
2011
July
OutOfCopyright.eu makes Public Domain Calculators available for the entire European Union
"Works that have fallen into the public domain after their term of copyright protection has elapsed can be reely used by everybody. In theory that means that these works can be reused by anyone for any purpose which includes commercial exploitation.
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In practice however determining if a work has passed into the public domain can prove very difficult. This is especially true when attempting to determine the public domain status of content in multiple jurisdictions. As part of the EuropeanaConnect project Knowledgeland and the Institute for information Law at the University of Amsterdam have developed public domain calculators to answer the question whether a certain work or other subject matter vested with copyright or neighbouring rights (related rights) has fallen into the public domain. These public domain Calculators have been developed for 30 countries (the European Union plus Switzerland, Iceland & Norway) and are available at www.outofcopyright.eu
Users can use the calculators (and the underlying research published at outofcopyright.eu) to determine the copyright status of works in all these countries. This is the first time that this question has been structurally researched across all European jurisdictions.
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We encourage everyone interested in the public domain to try the calculators, comment on them and re-use the published research. All research and other material on Outofcopyright is available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license and the software powering the calculators can be reused under the terms of the EUPL license
The Public Domain Project is very happy about this anouncement and would like to thank everyone who was involved creating it!
September
At the 28. September 2011 it finaly arrived: Our ELP Laser turntable mades it way to us after a long 25 week waiting time. The Laser turntable is provided to us by the Wikimedia Germany. We will make a "unboxing-video" in a few days for the Wikimedia Blog and to show you our new workhorse.
October
First digitized gramophone record available
The mission to digitalize our gramophone records starts on October 26th, 2011 with a first flac file. The PD project is proud to present the first test record Purcell: A Trumpet Voluntary in 96-kHz/16-bit. This file is produced without a declicker/decrackler-software. We are still in testing phase, but stay in patience.
2012
February
The ITZ of the Zurich University of the Arts offers the server housing and sponsors bandwidth and rackspace
July
First cylinder recordings are entered into the database.
August
Martin Osterwalder donates 35,000 gramophone records (phonograph records)
September
First speech at a Wikimedia conference (WikiCon 2012 in Dornbirn, Austria)
December
Establishment of the Swiss Foundation Public Domain
2013
February
The supervision of the foundation is now up to the Federal Department of Home Affairs
May
The Swiss Foundation Public Domain is now officially a charitable organization (tax exempt) in Switzerland
August
We attend at the Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong. The result is a partnership with a digitization project in Uruguay
2014
January
The Public Domain project is actively supported by Wikimedia CH in 2014
February
Integration of the digitization project in the CD recording of the SOS-ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich)
April
Dominio Público Sonoro Uruguay becomes the official representative of the Public Domain Project in South America
July
Start of the digitization of the Martin Osterwalder collection. WMCH financed an employee with Asperger syndrome and the SOS-ETH is sponsoring a space for the recording studio
August
We attend at the Wikimania 2014 in London. Wikimedia Deutschland gives us a literary grant for the procurement of much needed reference books (Copyright investigation)
September
We attend the WikiCon 2014 in Cologne. Wikimedia CH assumes the cost for another employee with Asperger syndrome. The record cleaning machine is now ready for use. We find a pleasure in the Wiki of Music (WoM) and discuss about a closer cooperation
December
We are guests in the radio show Hackerfunk of Radio Radius and Christian Mäder published his blog about the Public Domain Project.
2015
February
We are a data provider for the first Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon in the Swiss National Library in Berne.
April
We attend the GLAM-WIKI-2015 conference in Den Haag. We can make good new contacts from London to Malawi.
June
Co-Founding the Wikimedia Digitization User Group, a Wikimedia User Group for digitization projects. It includes projects and interested people from Argentina, Finnland, Mexico, Uruguay and Switzerland.
October
We are part of the conference Sharing is Caring: Right to Remix? and the 2015 edition of HACK4DK in Kopenhagen. HACK4DK is an annual hackathon on cultural heritage, organized by major heritage institutions in Denmark.
2016
11. January
We've got the first time user statistics from Wikimedia Commons for the month of october 2015.
We are very happy that all our audio files we provide on Wikimedia Commons were downloaded 40 000 times in that month!
We hoped that people are interested in the results of our work but to have the numbers on the table that quite a lot of people are interested in it is a great compliment for us. This usage statistic is therefore a great boost in motivation to continue our work.
8./10. April
At the Linux Audio Conference 2016 in Berlin (DE) nuess0r has held a presentation about the usage of Free and Open Source Software für digital long time archives. The Linux Audio Conference is a annual event of the Linuxaudio Community.
Video recording (Download und streaming), Presentation slides
Ganzen Vortrag auf YouTube ansehen:
24. bis 26. June
Again we attended the Wikimania conference, this year in a mountain villige in norh Italy.
In a very cosy and relaxed atmosphere discussions about many topics were held and we could make new interesting contacts in the Wikimedia movement. It could be clearly seen from the conference program and the attendees in different events that the work with GLAMs gets more important. For different reasons and on eye level. We from the public domain project are also happy about that the Wikimedia Foundation installed a GLAM Coordinator to support the work in this areas.
The program can be found here. All presentations have links to the video recordings:
Wikimania 2016 Programm
16. August
The Public Domain Project was the first time the subject of a research paper.
At the Bern University of Applied Sciences a student was working on the topic of digital long time preservation of audio works in general and developing a concept how this concepts could be applied to the Public Domain Project.
As a by product an audit was undertaken to determine the current status of the Public Domain Project and its long time preservation strategies.
24. September
We have moved!
Our office for the digitization work in Switzerland has been moved. It is now located at the Sonnegstrasse 27 in Zürich. Just the beautiful view over Zürich from the lake over the main station to Schlieren is worth a visit in our office.
Here some up to date pictures:
Visit also
- Photo stream of the Public Domain Project on Flickr.
