Cultural Heritage Imaging : Featured Publications

Featured Publication:

“Open Archaeology: Fundamentals of Intellectual Property and Open Source.”

Authors : Carla Schroer

To be presented at:

CAA 2008
2-6 April 2008, Budapest, Hungary
&
WAC 2008
June 29th - July 4th, 2008, Dublin Ireland

Session Abstract:
This two hour workshop covers a range of topics in IP and open source.

Topics:
	What is Intellectual Property?
	Ownership and licenses
		Open standards, open source, and open development
		Main types of open source licenses (how they work together and don't work together)
		Licensing factors to consider when choosing technology
	Content and media (images, documents, video, etc)
		How do these differ from software?
		Things to consider when choosing a license for your content
		Open discussion and Q&A

Author's Background:
Carla Schroer has worked in the software industry in Silicon Valley California for 19+ years. She has been involved in engineering and licensing issues for Java technology at Sun Microsystems since 1995. Her most recent project was the "open sourcing" of the Java Standard Edition code base, a project with 6.5 million lines of code developed over 12 years and containing code from multiple sources under multiple licenses. Her experience as the engineering liaison to the legal team for this project made her aware of many issues of interest when making technology decisions. She is also a co-founder of Cultural Heritage Imaging, and has worked for the last 5 years in the areas of imaging and cultural heritage.

Target Audience:
The target audience for this workshop is anyone interested in knowing the basics of open source and related licensing and software development issues. There is no limit to the number of participants.

Resources	-	SoftwareFreedom.org –Software Freedom Law Center Particularly useful “resource” area, with free publications on open source licenses and copyright issues
	-	creativecommons.org It is very easy to create your own license for a variety of materials here
	-	opensource.org -Open Source Initiative (OSI)
	-	fsf.org - Free Software Foundation
	-	http://www.sun.com/software/opensource - Sun Microsystem's Open Source web pages
	-	Whitepaper on Open Source licensing as well as discussions about the benefits of open source for developers, enterprises and end users: (.pdf download) (...) opensource_licensing.pdf

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	Open Source slide presentation (881 KB PDF download)