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I just had a chat with Mark Macgillivray, who project manages several of the OKF’s open bibliographic data projects. I thought it would be useful to get an overview of the OKF’s work on open bibliographic data, its work on the public domain and how all of these things fit together. To this end we put together this diagram. You can see the full sized version here.

A few comments:

• We need to have a more tightly integrated strategy across the OKF about our activities in relation to open bibliographic data and in relation to the public domain. There are lots of potential synergies between these two areas.
• We need more evangelism about (i) opening up metadata, and (ii) encouraging cultural heritage organisations to make public domain works open as in OpenDefinition.org in accordance with things like the Public Domain Charter and the Public Domain Manifesto.
• We need to do a better job at communicating what is happening with various OKF open bibliographic data projects (Jiscobib, Bibliographica, Bibserver, …) both internally (e.g. relevant working groups and other OKF folks) and externally (e.g. via openbiblio.net, blog.okfn.org, Twitter, at events and so on).
• We need to have a designated person pushing forward with our work on the public domain. Going forward Mark will manage technical work on PublicDomainWorks.net and the Public Domain Calculators – liaising with Primavera and others. Would like to have significant releases in late 2011 and early 2012. Mark will put together a draft project plan for this.
• We should also have more events and activities to engage developers, designers and others interested in reusing open bibliographic data and public domain works. Increasing synergies with existing activities in this area. E.g. to build a better connected bibliographic data developer community, and to reach out to target users (such as humanities scholars).