More notes from Kaufman's conference at Columbia: Keynote speaker Rick Prelinger.
"Openness is not binary and content isn't simply open or closed. It's a broad spectrum. Not the just the image of the book page, but the text too, being able to manipulate it. The ascii text, that you can take, mashup, quote, paste into your own document. Not just watching a movie - being able to make your own cut. ..
"The BBC creative archive has been the focus of so many people's hopes. It's raised expectations tremendously. I hope we can support him. ...
"Not just the music but the midi - not just the freedome to consume, but the freedom to remix. In the digital world this means you really have to get your hands on the object itself. Freedom to annotate. Freedom to share the network experience with others. And interoperability. Think of quilting. It's an early form of sampling. ...
"We need to default to openness. Let's declare a period of letting some different ecologies flourish in educational video. Some of us will be about billable events. That can happen later after we've figured this out. Archives will be in trouble if people look at them as a place that blocks access.
"The UK lives under a rights regime that many Americans would consider Draconian. They are doing so much more than we are to mobilize archives and make them available, as long as you work in the education field."
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