Public Domain Works Software
A catalogue of cultural material (books, recordings, films, paintings etc) oriented to public domain works.
- For all types of material: recordings, films and paintings and prints etc -- not just books.
- Particular focus on recordings initially.
- Live service at: http://www.publicdomainworks.net/
- Main project home page (with additional background): http://www.okfn.org/pdw/
Infrastructure (Code, Bugtracker etc)
- Mercurial repository (main): https://knowledgeforge.net/pdw/hg/
- bitbucket mirror: http://bitbucket.org/okfn/pdw/
- Mercurial repo for new openbiblio effort: https://knowledgeforge.net/pdw/openbiblio
- Tickets etc: this trac
- Knowledgeforge project (listing of all infrastructure services for project plus access control etc): http://www.knowledgeforge.net/project/pdw/
Technical Overview
Software can be split into distinct subsystems:
- openbiblio: generic catalogue system
- pdw: specific public domain part
Each of these has three main components:
- Model (model) - for catalogue this is FRBR-based
- Web frontend (wui)
- Tools for cleaning, processing, analyzing (various ...)
- Data import
- Data cleaning
- Analysis (e.g. pd stats, date stats etc)
- PD calculator
Open Biblio
Designing the new phase (2010-03)
- Collaborative pirate pad: http://piratepad.net/KPNGUgcnGT
- http://knowledgeforge.net/pdw/openbiblio
