FOSsil Bank Update (September 2014)
Chris Sakkas
Hi folks,
Another month, another FOSsil Bank update.
Living Libre updates
I'm exploring Semantic MediaWiki (thanks for the tip, Cov!) as the foundation for the next incarnation of the FOSsil Bank. I'm also looking for a new name for the FOSsil Bank – I want its name to explain, at least in part, what the site does. The working title is “Free, Libre and Open Catalogue”, but of course the Bank also has works under non-free licences. Maybe “Catalogue of Shareable Works”? Please share any ideas that you have.
- A Free, Libre and Open Glossary is now available in XML: http://livinglibre1.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/a-free-libre-and-open-glossary-now-in-xml/
- As part of the remaking of the FOSsil Bank, I posted an explanation of how data is currently stored: http://livinglibre1.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/what-does-a-fossil-bank-item-look-like/
#FundFreeCulture
If you spot a chance to #FundFreeCulture, shoot me an email and tweet about it!
I tweet from https://twitter.com/living_libre
The
#FundFreeCulture page collects free, libre and open sources and works
that are – in some way – for sale or use donations as a funding model: http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/fundfreeculture
The Musipiraten is
allowing you to pre-order their Free! Music! Contest album. Songs will
be Creartive Commons licensed, but not necessarily free/open (€2.50): http://musik.klarmachen-zum-aendern.de/free-music-contest-2014-en
When Kenney Land makes its funding goal, 4,000 assets will be released into the public domain (28 days left; $8,364/$40,000; flexible funding): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kenney-land-game-dev-learning-centre-in-limburg/x/219718
AXIOM Beta is the world's first open digital cinema camera (18 days left; €56,609/€100,000; fixed funding): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/axiom-beta-the-first-open-digital-cinema-camera/x/219718
TeknoAXE is making royalty-free music on Patreon (minimum pledge $1) (CC BY): http://www.patreon.com/teknoaxe
OpenFarm is a free and open database that made its funding on Kickstarter (concluded; $24,293/$7,500) (CC BY): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/roryaronson/openfarm-learn-to-grow-anything
New FOSsil Bank Entries
All are free/open, at least in part.
Video
Not a new entry, but the Lunatics page has been expanded (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:lunatics
Information
Intellectual Property: Law and the Information Society is a non-free textbook (CC BY-NC-SA) but comes with a free casebook (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:intellectual-property-law-and-the-information-society
Beginning Titan – The Distributed Graph Database is a guide to the Titan database (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:beginning-titan-the-distributed-graph-database
Archaeology, Anthropology and Interstellar Communication is
a collection of articles around meaningful communication with
extraterrestial intelligence (do you think aliens have copyright law?)
(CC0): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:archaeology-anthropology-and-interstellar-communicatio
OpenStax CNX is an open educational resources repository (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:cnx
Understanding Changes in Poverty is an analysis of poverty reduction methods (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:understanding-changes-in-poverty
The GNU C Programming Tutorial is a tutorial for programming in C (GNU FDL): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-gnu-c-programming-tutorial
The Psychology of Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts advances a psychology theory (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:the-psychology-of-emotions-feelings-and-thoughts
Tabletop Games
Bedroom Wall Press is a tabletop RPG designer whose works are under the Open Game License or GNU GPL: http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:bedroom-wall-press
100/3 RPG is a percentile-based tabletop RPG on a single page (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:100-3-rpg
Art
The Folger Shakespeare Library is a database of tens of thousands of images relating to Shakespeare (CC BY-SA, public domain): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:folger-shakespeare-library
The Internet Archive Book Images project scrapes public domain books in the Internet Archive for artworks (public domain): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:internet-archive-book-images
Unsplash is a blog that posts high-resolution photos (CC0): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:unsplash
Music
Hack the Bells is a competition to remix the UC Berkeley carillon (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:hack-the-bells
Argofox releases royalty-free music (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:argofox
Mixotic is
a site that publishes net mixes (CC BY-ND for the mixes themselves, a
range of free and non-free licences for the constituent songs): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:mixotic
Vimeo has a feature to search its music store by Creative Commons licence: http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:vimeo
FaTony has orchestral music (CC0): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:fatony
Jonathan Mann has written a song a day. It seems that the songs posted on Bandcamp are CC BY-NC but some posted on YouTube are CC BY: http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:jonathan-mann
TeknoAXE is royalty-free music in a variety of genres (CC by): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:teknoaxe
Hardware
Farmbot is an engineering project that creates an automated, data-driven farming machine (CC BY): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:farmbot
Literature
Brothers Whim book Stick's Masterpiece is now available in Arabic (CC BY-SA): http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/entry:brothers-whim---