I Want to Contribute to the Public Domain This Year

Pic­ture from here

I really want to con­tribute to the pub­lic domain this year.   A short while back I wrote about how I thought the gen­eral pub­lic and the Inter­net was fail­ing at actively giv­ing back to the pub­lic domain.   To try to coun­ter­act this I’m going to make sure that I give some­thing back.  I’m sure that I have at least a few books that can be scanned to sub­mit to Project Guten­berg.   I would like to work on a sheet music archive.   I will still be releas­ing most of my images and video to the cre­ative com­mons, so I’ll be sub­mit­ting free to use and share work, I’ll just main­tain con­trol over it enough to make sure no one else is mak­ing money off my work, unless of course it’s me.

So what are you going to do this year to help out the pub­lic domain?

January 6, 2009 | Creeva | Tags: , , , , , | View Comments
  • grin
    You may want to get acquainted to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LilyPond
  • Thanks - though looking at it (since I still say for music there is no authoritative DB) - I'm going to throw my weight (music wise) behind International music database project (http://imslp.org/).

    Though I can say looking at the Lilypond thing there is one glaring issue with it - throwing out the problems you can get into with intricate scoring - there seems to be no way (as per the example) to choose which octave the note sits in.

    In there example they show that you write A and it produces an off staff later - later in the same line you type A and it produces an above staff A) - now I'm sure this is a type of some sort, but I don't know enough about the extension to correct it.

    Thanks though - I may do some more research in it - I have played with lilypond in Ubuntu - and I think a windows port? Not sure if I remember the windows side as well.
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