open content
Open content, a
neologism coined by analogy with "
open source", describes any kind of
creative work published in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization, firm or individual. The largest open
content project is
Wikipedia.
(1)Technical definition
Work on a technical definition for open content has been undertaken by the
Open Knowledge Foundation. The Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) gives a set of conditions for openness in knowledge - much as the
Open Source Definition does for
open-source software. Content can be either in the
public domain or under a
license which allows re-distribution and re-use, such as
Creative Commons Attribution and Attribution-Sharealike licenses or the GFDL. It is worth noting that the OKD covers open data as well as open content.
History
It is possible that the first documented case of open content was the
Royal Society, which aspired to share information across the globe as a public enterprise.{{Fact|date=April 2008}} The term "open content" was first used in the modern context by
David Wiley, then a graduate student at
Brigham Young University, who founded the
Open Content Project and put together the first content-specific (non-software) license in 1998, with input from
Eric Raymond,
Tim O'Reilly, and others.{{Fact|date=April 2008}}
Free content
As with
the terms "open source" and "free software", some open content materials can also be described as "
free content", although technically they describe different things. For example, the
Open Directory Project is open content but is not free content. The main difference between licenses is the definition of
freedom: some licenses attempt to maximize the freedom of all potential recipients in the future while others maximize the freedom of the initial recipient.
Common content
The related term "common content" is occasionally used to refer to
Creative Commons–licensed works. This takes after the
Common Content project, which is an attempt to collect as many such works as possible.
Open access
"
Open access" refers to a special category of material, consisting of freely available published
peer-reviewed journal articles.
Open-content search engines
{{Expand-section|date=April 2008}}With the increased interest in open content, many universities have started offering online video/audio courses to the general public, such as
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Princeton University. This has resulted in a great increase in providers of open content. The difficulty of keeping track of all such content had led to the birth of open-content search engines.
(2)Licenses
See also
References
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[WEB,weblink Voluntary Engagement in an Open Web-based Encyclopedia: Wikipedians, and Why They Do It, Schoer, Joachim, Hertel, Guido, 2007-12-03, publisherUniversity of Würzburg, PHP, 2007-03-17, ]
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[WEB,weblink 2008-08-09, Creative Commons, Creative Commons meta-search engine, ]
External links
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Major open content repositories and directories
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