OurDigitalWorld, Autores.uy, the Internet Archive, and DIY Book Scanner at Creative Commons Global Summit 2017

Towards a Digital Cultural
Commons
Legal, Technical and Community
Perspectives
Creative Commons Global Summit 2017

Internet Archive:
Universal Access to All Knowledge

90,000
2,000,000
2,400,000
3,000,000
3,000,000
284,000,000,00
0
Software Titles
Moving Images
Audio Recordings
Hours of Television
eBooks
Web Pages
30,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes
Archived

Free digital access to 4 million books

In 2014 we built a DIY bookscanner.
And then the big question appeared: which works are safe
to be digitized?
There was no means to know that information and to be
sure that we weren't infringing any law.
Therefore, it seemed to us that we needed to create our
own database for rights clearance, available for anyone to
use.
DIY Scanner “Hackerspace”
https://diybookscanner.org

That's how we created the database Autores.Uy:
http://autores.uy
We did it with the volunteer support of a group of
librarians, programmers and lawyers.
Right now, we have 10,000 author's registries
(roughly 25% of the total authors from Uruguay)
and some thousands works digitized. Infographic of digitized works in
the libraries of Canelones.
http://blog.autores.uy

The database serves two main purposes:
● To be able to digitize safely hundreds of works
and bring that possibility to others.
● To provide input for public policy makers to make
right decisions concerning copyright law reforms
and cultural public policies.
Infographic of digitized works in the library
of uruguayan Congress.

Some unexpected outcomes that we didn't
plan when building the database:
● Other GLAM institutions are using our
methods of identification of the PD.
● People come to us to release works into the
public domain. Also some heirs have come to
us to release the work of their relatives.
Infographic of digitized works in the library
of uruguayan Congress.

Now what?
We are updating our software and creating tools to
facilitate the adoption by others of the framework we
created.
This will allow an easy installation with custom copyright
terms, languages and visual flavours.
Also we want to improve our capacity of digitize works,
not only written, but also sound and visual works.
Infographic of digitized works in
the libraries of Maldonado.

OurDigitalWorld
• We partner with organizations in managing,
preserving and sharing our digital assets.
• We make local community history globally
accessible.
• We advocate for digital cultural heritage as a
public good: sharing, access, attribution, and
reuse.

How we use CC: Creating metadata at local level
As part of
data
management

How we use CC: Crowdsourcing digital content

How we use CC: Search and discovery

How our members use CC
205,803 items out of
2,460,000 items
hosted in VITA (8.36%)

We are a grassroots initiative with problems for coming
up with better names

But we've been working hard to UNCHAIN culture and
knowledge

OurDigitalWorld, Autores.uy, the Internet Archive, and DIY Book Scanner at Creative Commons Global Summit 2017

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