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November 11-13, 2010 Hilversum and Amsterdam, the Netherlands Inhoudelijk En financiële Verantwoording Economies of the Commons 2, November 2010 November 11-13, 2010 Hilversum and Amsterdam, the Netherlands www.ecommons.eu Inhoudelijk en financiële verantwoording Economies of the Commons 2, november 2010 Stichting Nederland Kennisland Keizersgracht 174 1016 DW Amsterdam +31 205756720 / http://www.kennisland.nl ! 2 / 48 1 ECONOMIES OF THE COMMONS 2!....................................................................................4 1.1 BELANGRIJKSTE OPGELEVERDE RESULTATEN!........................................................................4 1.2 HTTP://WWW.ECOMMONS.EU/!..............................................................................................5 1.3 PROGRAM!..........................................................................................................................6 2 BLOGPOSTS!..........................................................................................................................8 TOWARDS A RADICAL ARCHIVE: DE BALIE"S ERIC KLUITENBERG!..................................................9 WHEN LIBRARIES EMBRACE THE DIGITAL FUTURE: INTERVIEW WITH KB'S IRMGARD BOMERS!......10 ARCHIVING IN CONVERGENCE: EUROPEANA'S DYNAMIC PORTAL!...............................................12 THE NETWORKED VAULT: INTERVIEW WITH MAARTEN BRINKERINK OF THE NETHERLANDS" INSTITUTE OF SOUND AND VISION!............................................................................................................................13 WHEN THE COPY'S NO EXCEPTION: INTERVIEW WITH KENNISLAND'S PAUL KELLER!...........15 PETER KAUFMAN ON APPRECIATING AUDIOVISUAL VALUE!...........................................................17 THE OPEN VIDEO ALLIANCE FOR AN #OPEN" VIDEO ECOSYSTEM ON THE WEB!..............................18 COLLABORATIVE TOOLS FOR VIDEOS ON WIKIPEDIA!..................................................................18 VIDEO ON WIKIPEDIA – BEN MOSKOWITZ AND MICHAEL DALE!...................................................19 WHY HTML 5? THE POSSIBILITIES OF HTML 5 VIDEO!.............................................................20 WORKING GROUP: OPEN DISTRIBUTION MODELS FOR BROADCASTING!.....................................21 BRAM TULLEMANS FROM NPO: LICENSE ISSUES COMPLICATE OPEN VIDEO EXHIBITION!...............22 VODO AND THE SINTEL PROJECT: THE COMMONS AND THE COMMUNITY!....................................23 CLOSING DISCUSSION AND CLOSING REMARKS – PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR!...........................24 “OUR COMMON MISSION” – CHARLOTTE HESS AS KEYNOTE SPEAKER!.........................................24 JOOST POORT: CONFERENCE KEYNOTE ADDRESS – INVITED RESPONDENTS!.............................26 SUSTAINABILITY OF THE FREE AND OPEN: FROM TERRA NULLIUS TO THE NEW COMMONS!..........26 A CONTRIBUTION TO A CRITIQUE OF FREE CULTURE: FROM ANTI-COPYRIGHT TO THE CREATIVE ANTI- COMMONS!.............................................................................................................................28 DEATH KNELL FOR OPEN POLITICS!..........................................................................................29 SIMONA LEVI: “POWER IS ALWAYS USING THE NAME OF FREEDOM TO DO THE NASTY THING”!........29 MICHAEL EDSON ON THE SMITHSONIAN COMMONS!...................................................................30 (PRO-) ACTIVE ARCHIVES: NIMK – SANDRA FAUCONNIER!.........................................................31 (PRO)-ACTIVE ARCHIVES: CELLULOID REMIX – ANNELIES TERMEER!..........................................32 !"#$%&'!(")$%&*'+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++,- BOOK LAUNCH #THE TELEKOMMUNIST MANIFESTO" BY DYMITRI KLEINER!....................................33 PUBLIC DEBATE: FUTURE OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN IN EUROPE!...................................................33 HOW TO PAY THE COSTS OF KEEPING THINGS FREE: VOLKER RALF GRASSMUCK"S PROPOSAL FOR LICENSE SHARING!................................................................................................................................37 REVENUE MODELS – JAROMIL AND MARCO SACHY TELL US ABOUT CYCLOS AND THEIR OWN DYNDY.NET!............................................................................................................................38 EUROPEANA – AGGREGATING EUROPE"S CULTURAL HERITAGE!..................................................39 EELCO FERWERDA TALKS ABOUT OPEN ACCESS IN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING!..............................39 DOLF VEENVLIET: “DO SOMETHING AWESOME (OR AT LEAST, SOMETHING NOTABLE)”!..................41 AN INTRODUCTION OF INTELLIGENT TELEVISION – BY PETER KAUFMAN!.....................................41 MICHAEL DALE EXPLAINS THE BENEFITS OF OPEN VIDEO PLATFORMS!......................................41 RUFUS POLLOCK AND OPEN DATA!............................................................................................42 MATERIALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF CULTURE – BIRTE CHRISTENSEN-DALSGAARD AND THE COST MODEL FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION PROJECT!............................................................................................43 MATERIALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF CULTURE – INGE ANGEVAARE AND THE COSTS OF DIGITAL PRESERVATION!.......................................................................................................................43 HANS WESTERHOF: PAYING THE COST OF ACCESS!..................................................................44 JEFF UBOIS AND WISHFUL THINKING: THOUGHTS ON CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND ARCHIVAL!.....44 THE BEST OF THE OXCARS!......................................................................................................45 FULL VIDEO OF ECONOMIES OF THE COMMONS 2!.....................................................................46 ECONOMIES OF THE COMMONS II FLYER!..................................................................................46 3 PICTURES!...........................................................................................................................47 ! 3 / 48 !"#$%&%'()*"%+",-)".%''%&*"/" Naam project!! : Economies of the Commons 2 Indiener!! ! : Nederland Kennisland Adres!! ! ! : Keizersgracht 174 1016 DW Amsterdam Url!! ! ! : http://www.kennisland.nl Contactpersoon!! : Paul Keller Locatie!! ! : De Balie, Hilversum Media Park Redactieraad!! : Martijn Arnoldus (Kennisland), Maarten Brinkerink (Beeld en Geluid), Morgan !!!! Currie (Institute of Network Cultures), Paul Keller (Kennisland), Geert Lovink !!!! (Institute of Network Cultures), Johan Ooman (Beeld en Geluid), Reinder !!!! Rustema (University of Amsterdam) Mede gefinancieerd door!: Mondriaan Stichting, Stichting Democratie en Media, Instituut voor Net werkcultuur, Open Beelden, Virtueel Platform, Beeld en Geluid Design en ontwerp !! : Jeroen Joosse !0!"1)23&45(67*,)"%84)2)9)5:)"5)*;2,3,)& • Economies of the Commons flyer >> een omschrijving per sessie. Dit event is gehouden 11, 12 en 13 november 2010. • http://www.ecommons.eu/>> de website/weblog van het event. Het idée achter deze blog is het hebben van een vaste plek waar materiaal kan worden verzameld en geactualiseerd rondom dit thema. • Opnames van alle presentaties >> alle presentaties zijn terug te vinden op http://www.debalie.nl/ terugkijken.jsp. • 225 tot 250 bezoekers, verdeeld over 3 dagen. • Blogposts in relatie tot presentaties, zie volgende pagina’s. • Nieuwe contacten onderling binnen de sprekers. Netwerkuitbreiding en kenniscirculatie. • Zeer uitgebreide lijst van bronnen zie hiervoor ook http://ecommons.tuxic.nl/?page_id=19. Deze lijst geeft een uitgebreid overzicht van al het Commons onderzoeksmateriaal. • Documentatie online media archief, en foto’s. • Publiek bezoekers programma. • Verdere theorievorming met concepten als commons, public domain, en digital cultural archives. ! • Intervierws voorafgaand aan het event door Morgan Currie.! ! 4 / 48 !0/"-<8=>>???0)$%''%&*0);> De blog is gedurende het project heel erg goed bezocht, dit mede door de vooraf afgenomen interviews met onder andere Paul Keller van Kennisland, Maarten Brinkerink van Beelden Geluid, etc. Dit is de mainportal richting de doelgroep. Alle uitingen omtrent het event zijn hier gecommuniceerd. Deze blog zal bestaan blijven. Hier is divers archief materiaal van video interviews tot foto’s terug te vinden. ! 5 / 48 !0@"A5%453' Pre-Conference Seminar: Open Video Conference Europe Mediacentrum, Sumatralaan 45 (Media Park), Hilversum, 11 November On November 11, 2010 The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Knowledgeland host a one-day pre-conference seminar on open video in relation to public broadcasting, co-organised with the Open Video Alliance. This pre-conference gathers representatives from public broadcasting, the creative industries, civil rights organisations, cultural heritage organisations and government to discuss the future of public broadcasting in relation to open video. Program Plenary keynotes (10:00-11:00) Ben Moskowitz (Open Video Alliance) Peter B. Kaufman (Intelligent Television) Plenary Presentations of Relevant Projects (11:15-13:00) Michael Dale (Wikimedia Foundation) – Video on Wikipedia Jamie King (VODO) – Promoting and Distributing Creative Works Using P2P Dolf Veenvliet (Blender Foundation) – Open Movie Projects and Software Frans Ward (Surfnet) – Open Video in Education Bram Tullemans (NPO) – Online Video for Dutch Public Broadcasting Three Parallel Working Groups (14:00-16:00): 1. Video on Wikipedia (step-by-step instructions on adding video content to Wikipedia, focus is both on the decision making process and the actual
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