Dear all,
Peter suggested that I might email you all about an encyclopedia entry on
Open content we are trying to pull together. This is for the "International
Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society" published by
Wiley-Blackwell in collaboration with the International Communication
Association.
The article will be freely available and also openly licensed after an embargo
period - that's the best agreement I was able to negotiate, and it's an
interesting story in itself. It also means we can't re-use Wikipedia (under
CC-By-SA), which is a real shame, although we are drawing on some CC-By
materials.
Unfortunately there is not a lot of time, and we're in a real rush now. So
it's turning into an experiment in "speed crowd sourcing". I had originally
hoped that the entry would be written in a highly collaborative way, with
lots of diverse contributions and discussion, and I do hope this will still
be possible to a small extent.
Your contributions, thoughts and ideas will be very welcome, and of course
we'll acknowledge anybody contributing. The entry itself is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O-PjUfUIGGuEo5MQpAHxVoXFnBnnqhfHUx47aqn…
The permissions are such that anybody can view and comment, so please
do have a look. It's at an early stage at the moment, but we are
working on it this week and weekend, aiming to get it finished (in final
form) by the end of the month. You can also have a look at
http://bjohas.de/OCEE for further information.
If you want to contribute, please email me as soon as possible to let
me know (
bjohas(at)gmail.com), and request access to the Google document.
Many thanks and all the best wishes,
Bjoern
Faculty of Education
University of Cambridge, UK
http://www.bjohas.de