# History of Quantifying the Commons

[stateof]: https://github.com/creativecommons/stateof

## 2024 Google Summer of Code

- [Automating Quantifying the Commons: Part 1][part1]
- [Automating Quantifying the Commons: Part 2][part2]
- [Documentation]: [doc]

[part1]: https://opensource.creativecommons.org/blog/entries/2024-07-10-automating-quantifying/
[part2]:
[doc]: https://unmarred-gym-686.notion.site/Automating-Quantifying-the-Commons-Documentation-441056ae02364d8a9a51d5e820401db5?pvs=74



## 2022 Data Science Discovery - UC Berkeley

- [Data Science Discovery: Quantifying the Commons — Creative Commons Open
  Source][dsdblog]

[dsdblog]: https://opensource.creativecommons.org/blog/entries/2022-12-07-berkeley-quantifying/


## 2017 State of the Commons

- Website: [State of the Commons 2017][state2017]
- Repositories:
  - [creativecommons/stateof][stateof]: Static copies of previous State of the
    Commons sites
  - [cc-archive/sotc-2017][repo-2017]: State Of The Commons 2017
    - Contains a single CSV with counts per license from Google. The
      methodology is assumed to mirror 2015, below.

[state2017]: https://stateof.creativecommons.org/
[repo-2017]: https://github.com/cc-archive/sotc-2017


## 2016 State of the Commons

- Website: [State of the Commons – Creative Commons 2016][state2016]
- Repositories:
  - [creativecommons/stateof][stateof]: Static copies of previous State of the
    Commons sites
  - [cc-archive/sotc-2016][repo-2016]: State of the Commons 2016
    - Contains a single CSV with counts per license from Google. The
      methodology is assumed to mirror 2015, below.

[state2016]: https://stateof.creativecommons.org/2016/
[repo-2016]: https://github.com/cc-archive/sotc-2016


## 2015 State of the Commons

- Website: [Creative Commons — State of the Commons 2015][state2015]
- Repositories:
  - [creativecommons/stateof][stateof]: Static copies of previous State of the
    Commons sites
  - [cc-archive/sotc-2015][repo-2015]: State Of The Commons 2015
    - See [`data.mdwn`][datamdwn] for information on the data gathered

[state2015]: https://stateof.creativecommons.org/2015/
[repo-2015]: https://github.com/cc-archive/sotc-2015
[datamdwn]: https://github.com/cc-archive/sotc-2015/blob/main/data.mdwn


## 2014 State of the Commons

- Website: [State of the Commons — Creative Commons - IA Wayback
  Machine][state2014]
- Repository:
  - [cc-archive/sotc-2014](https://github.com/cc-archive/sotc-2014)
    - See [`data/notes.md`][notes2014] for information on the data gathered

[state2014]: https://web.archive.org/web/20141121162907/https://stateof.creativecommons.org/
[notes2014]: https://github.com/cc-archive/sotc-2014/blob/main/data/notes.md


## 2012 and Earlier

- https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Metrics
- https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Metrics/License_statistics
- Repository:
  - [cc-archive/stats][repo-stats]: code for generating statistics on the usage
    of CC licenses

[repo-stats]: https://github.com/cc-archive/stats


## 2008 Participatory Media Lab

- [Visualizations - Participatory Media Lab][pmlviz]

[pmlviz]: http://pml.wikidot.com/visualizations


## 2007

- [Creative Commons metrics (PDF)][cc2007pdf]
- [Creative Commons Statistics from the CC-Monitor Project
  (PDF)][ccmonitor2007pdf]

[cc2007pdf]: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/f/f0/Cc-stats-20070614.pdf
[ccmonitor2007pdf]: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/7/71/Statistics-from-the-CC-Monitor-project_eng.pdf