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+ | * CC-only feed: Everything is CC (http://omdb.org/movie/latest.xml) | ||
+ | * Formats: Text | ||
+ | * Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Free multilingual database for film information, including relations and text information | ||
+ | * Notes: Free datebase that allows everyone to add and modify information. You can use the database as a content repository using omdb's API to access everything in it. | ||
==Internet Archive== | ==Internet Archive== |
Revision as of 08:21, 3 April 2007
A list of curators of Creative Commons-licensed content. Please add following the examples, or restructure if you have a better idea. Feel free to add "fields". This is just a beginning. Please help make it comprehensive!
There is some minimum combination of quality and quantity for inclusion. We'll know it when we see it.
The entries are listed in ascending order of their main URL, ignoring "www." if present.
Not certain that something should be added to this list? Add it to Talk:Content Curators.
For short lists of notable works, see books and film. This article will eventually be broken up into format-specific directory/repository/curator articles.
Contents
- 1 omdb.org
- 2 Internet Archive
- 3 ArtistServer
- 4 BeatPick - FairPlay Music Label
- 5 Blip.tv
- 6 CCHits
- 7 ccMixter
- 8 Wikimedia Commons
- 9 GlobalTune.net
- 10 GroundReport.com
- 11 DC Nature
- 12 Design Reaction
- 13 Dogmazic.net - Musique Libre !
- 14 Dmusic
- 15 EngageMedia
- 16 Flickr
- 17 Freesound
- 18 Garageband.com
- 19 Geograph British Isles
- 20 h2guide MapWizard
- 21 InterCommunication Center[ICC], HIVE
- 22 Jamendo
- 23 Jamglue
- 24 JumpCut.com
- 25 Kompoz.com
- 26 Lulu
- 27 Lulu.tv
- 28 Magnatune
- 29 Mix2r (pronounced "Mixter")
- 30 Odd Job Jack, Freejack animation assets
- 31 Open Clip Art Library
- 32 Open-Of-Course
- 33 Opsound
- 34 Ourmedia
- 35 Overmundo Banco de Cultura
- 36 Podcast Spot
- 37 Public Library of Science
- 38 Zorger
- 39 REBOL
- 40 Remix Reading
- 41 Revver
- 42 SectionZ
- 43 Simuze
- 44 Soundclick
- 45 SoundTransit
- 46 Starfrosch - Open Content
- 47 Tree of Life Web Project
- 48 Creative Collective
- 49 Unearthtravel
- 50 Webradio
omdb.org
- Main URL: http://omdb.org
- CC-only portal: Everything is CC (http://omdb.org/)
- CC-only feed: Everything is CC (http://omdb.org/movie/latest.xml)
- Formats: Text
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Free multilingual database for film information, including relations and text information
- Notes: Free datebase that allows everyone to add and modify information. You can use the database as a content repository using omdb's API to access everything in it.
Internet Archive
- Main URL: http://archive.org
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: http://www.archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?licensed_only=1
- Formats: audio, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Thousands of CC-licensed and PD videos and audio items. Huge.
- Notes: You can use http://creativecommons.org/tools/ccpublisher to license and upload media to archive.org
ArtistServer
- Main URL: http://artistserver.com
- CC-only portal: http://www.artistserver.com/music.cfm (select Search by License)
- CC-only feed: planned
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 3,986 songs (as of 20050826)
- Notes:
BeatPick - FairPlay Music Label
- Main URL: http://beatpick.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio: mp3 / OGG / WAV
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 85 artists/bands. 100++ albums/EP. 800++ tracks. Catalogue is growing day by day.
- Notes: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5. Selected for quality artists only. Online Music licensing: all music is pre-cleared and can be licensed for commercial purposes.
Blip.tv
- Main URL: http://blip.tv
- Formats: video
CCHits
- Main URL: http://cchits.org
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://cchits.ning.com/recent/rss/?xn_auth=no more at http://cchits.ning.com/faq/#podcast_client
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 223 tracks (as of 20060623)
- Notes: Built on the Ning playground, the whole system is open source and clonable.
ccMixter
- Main URL: http://ccmixter.org
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://ccmixter.org/rss/remix
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 1,608 tracks (as of 20051214)
- Notes: Runs on CcHost, supports Sample Pool API
Wikimedia Commons
- Main URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org
- CC-only portal: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Creative_Commons_licenses
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image (mostly), sound, video, text
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Constantly updating
- Notes:
GlobalTune.net
- Main URL: http://globaltune.net
- CC-only portal: Yes
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 2000+
- Notes: User contributed radio with listener driven rotation
GroundReport.com
- Main URL: http://groundreport.com
- CC-only portal: Yes
- Formats: text, images, audio, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 400+
- Notes: User-generated news source with ratings and revenue sharing
DC Nature
- Main URL: http://www.dcnature.com/
- CC-only portal: yes
- Formats: images: jpg
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: around 1000 images
- Notes: A community of natural historians who are showcasing the spectacular natural history and wildlife in the District of Columbia, USA
Design Reaction
- Main URL: http://www.designreaction.org
- CC-only portal: yes
- Formats: image, PDF
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: CC-licensed graphic design in the form of socially conscious posters
Dogmazic.net - Musique Libre !
- Main URL: http://www.dogmazic.net/
- CC-mainly portal: 80% CC / 20% other Libre licenses
- CC-mainly feeds: m3u, rss, podcasts
- Formats: audio: mp3, ogg
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: around 7000 tracks, 400 full EPs - out of total +8200 tracks, 536 EPs; 900 artists, 100 labels (as of 20061106)
- Notes: music & information portal on copyleft/Libre music; all copyleft/Libre licenses welcome; frenchbased, lang= fr. & eng.
Dmusic
- Main URL: http://dmusic.com
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: http://dmusic.com/feeds/cc_licensed.rss
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
- Notes:
EngageMedia
- Main URL: http://www.engagemedia.org
- CC-only portal: yes
- CC-only feed: http://www.engagemedia.org/latestvideos/RSS2
- Formats: video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
Flickr
- Main URL: http://www.flickr.com
- CC-only portal: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ also CC-enabled search at http://flickr.com/search/advanced/
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ~19.7 million photos (as of 20060911)
Freesound
- Main URL: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/rss.php
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 13,317 sound clips (as of 20060124)
- Notes:
Garageband.com
- Main URL: http://www.garageband.com
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
- Notes: only allows by-nc-nd/2.0
Geograph British Isles
- Main URL: http://www.geograph.org.uk/
- Notes: Community creating a digitial archive of photos covering every square kilometer of the British Isles
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: RSS/KML/GeoRSS/GPX/Memorymap feeds
- Formats: image
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 200,000+ images (as of 20060809)
h2guide MapWizard
- Main URL: http://www.h2guide.com/h/mapwizard
- Notes: CC-licensed clickable maps
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image,html
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: whole world up to a resolution of 1:500.000
InterCommunication Center[ICC], HIVE
- Main URL: http://hive.ntticc.or.jp
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: none yet
- Formats: video: MPEG4, WMV for online-streaming and downloadable files.
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 50+ media art interviews, symposia, concerts, exhibitions, workshops
- Notes: This is the online open video archive of NTT (Nippon Telecommunication&Telegraph) ICC, a media art center located in Tokyo that has promoted artists and activated discussions on new media and artistic expressions since 1997. ICC is one of the biggest-sized, private-run museums of the world, along with such organizations as the ZKM (Center for Arts and Media) in Karlsruhe,Germany, and Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.
Jamendo
- Main URL: http://www.jamendo.com/
- Notes: Jamendo hosts full music albums, available for both streaming and download on P2P (BitTorrent, eMule) ; Social tools, Web service, amazon-like recommendations ; Services for artists ; organization/recording of CC live performances.
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: RSS/Podcasts/Javascript feeds
- Formats: audio: MP3 192k / Ogg Vorbis Q7
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 500+ full music albums = 5000+ files (as of 20060128)
Jamglue
- Main URL: http://www.jamglue.com
- Notes: Has a flash-based mixer for remixing right in your browser!
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: RSS/Podcasts feeds
- Formats: audio: MP3
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 1500+ tracks, 2000+ mixes (as of 20061216)
JumpCut.com
- Main URL: http://JumpCut.com
- Formats: video
Kompoz.com
- Main URL: http://www.kompoz.com
- Notes: Kompoz.com is a social networking site for creating multi-track songs online with other musicians. With Kompoz, you can collaborate with anyone to create and mix a new generation of independent music based on the open standards of the "Creative Commons".
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: RSS
- Formats: audio: MP3, WMA, WAV
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 200+ artists, growing daily (as of 20070321)
Lulu
- Main URL: http://lulu.com
- CC-only portal: none, but advanced search may be restricted to CC-only
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: books
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
Lulu.tv
- Main URL: http://lulu.tv
- CC-only portal: everything licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
- CC-only feed: http://www.lulu.tv/?feed=atom
- Formats: short videos
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
Magnatune
- Main URL: http://magnatune.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed:?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 373 albums (as of 20050823)
- Notes:
Mix2r (pronounced "Mixter")
- Main URL: http://www.mix2r.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed:?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 7 GB (as of 20061231) and growing
- Notes: Site allows users to contribute tracks of reuse stub tracks for their own mixes, audio projects.
Odd Job Jack, Freejack animation assets
- Main URL: http://oddjobjack.com/freejack.php
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image (vector), image (bitmap), flash movie (.fla)
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 13 episodes worth of assets from TV's Odd Job Jack. Episode 1 has 77 characters, 28 props, and 231 cameras in an 800 meg torrent
- Notes: Every asset from this years 13 episode run is being released.
Open Clip Art Library
- Main URL: http://openclipart.org/
- CC-only portal: everything is public domain
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image (vector)
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: over 4300 clips (as of 20050823)
- Notes:
Open-Of-Course
- Main URL: http://www.open-of-course.org
- CC-only portal: everything is open content
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: text
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: around 30 multilingual courses and tutorials
- Notes:
Opsound
- Main URL: http://www.opsound.org/opsound.html
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
- Notes:
Ourmedia
- Main URL: http://ourmedia.org
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio, image, text, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
- Notes: subset of Internet Archive collection (uses IA for storage and bandwidth)
Overmundo Banco de Cultura
- Main URL: http://www.overmundo.com.br/banco/banco.php
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://www.overmundo.com.br/rss/rss.php?secao=banco
- Formats: audio, image, text, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: about 190 works (as of 20060410)
- Notes: in Portugese
Podcast Spot
- Main URL: http://www.podcastspot.com
- CC-only portal: http://www.podcastspot.com/explore/cc
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 352 podcast episodes (as of 20070214)
- Notes:
Public Library of Science
- Main URL: http://plos.org
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: text (with images)
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: all articles from PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine
Zorger
- Main URL: http://public-domain.zorger.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image (bitmap)
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Approx 1,000 images (as of 20061201)
- Notes: scans from pre-1922 books, 1950s scifi illustraions, photos
REBOL
- Main URL: http://www.rebol.org
- CC-only portal: No: ?REBOL is license agnostic; license is decided by each contributor.
- CC-only feed: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/search.r?find=cc-by
- Formats: REBOL scripts
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: A few dozen scripts
- Notes: Find scripts by license type here: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/list-all-filters.r
Remix Reading
- Main URL: http://www.remixreading.org/
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio, image, text, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
- Notes:
Revver
- Main URL: http://revver.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed (all by-nc-nd 2.5)
- CC-only feed: http://revver.com/rss
- Formats: video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 19,100 videos (as of 20060408)
- Notes:
SectionZ
- Main URL: http://www.sectionz.com
- CC-only portal: http://www.sectionz.com/cc.asp
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 530 songs (as of 20060310)
- Notes: supports most CC-licenses browsable via a flickr-like interface
Simuze
- Main URL: http://simuze.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed unless noted otherwise
- Newsfeed: http://www.simuze.nl/live/nieuws/wp-rss2.php
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 948 tracks (as of 2006-11-28)
- Notes: Simuze is not just an online platform but also organizes events where CC musicians perform.
Soundclick
- Main URL: http://soundclick.com
- CC-only portal: http://soundclick.com/genres/cc_license.cfm
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 248,664 songs (as of 20060726)
- Notes:
SoundTransit
- Main URL: http://soundtransit.nl
- CC-only portal: everything is CC licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
- CC-only feed: coming soon http://soundtransit.nl/book/rss-feeds.html
- Formats: audio (field recordings only)
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 529 recordings (as of 20051127)
- Notes:
Starfrosch - Open Content
- Main URL: http://starfrosch.ch
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://starfrosch.ch/rss more at http://starfrosch.ch/tags
- Formats: audio: mp3
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 2000 Songs from over 300 Artists categorized by genre
- Artists are welcome to submit their songs
- 60'000 unique visitors month
Tree of Life Web Project
- Main URL: http://tolweb.org
- CC-only portal: only some content is CC-licensed (some images, the glossary, tree structure), CC discovery tools are under development
- CC-only feed: coming soon.
- Formats: image, video, audio, pdf, xml, text
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: over 1000 images, growing continuously
- Accepting contributions from scientists and the general public. Many of our current CC-licensed images are imported from Flickr. By integrating them into our collection, they get annotated with taxonomic metadata, and they will become part of taxon-specific CC image feeds.
- Notes: The Tree of Life is a collection of information about biodiversity. We cover all organisms, living and extinct, plants, animals, fungi, protists, microbes. We started implementing CC-licenses in our media uploading tools in February 2007. We still have to build CC options into our search tools, and we are planning to make available CC image/video/audio feeds for any group of organisms.
Creative Collective
- Main URL: http://www.tutaj.com.pl/geeklog/public_html/
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio:
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 174 files (as of 20050823)
Unearthtravel
- Main URL: http://www.unearthtravel.com
- CC-only portal: all text is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: NA
- Formats: text
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Approx 1,000,000 words (as of 20061113)
- Notes:
Webradio
- Main URL: http://www.subflow.net
- CC-only portal: all music streamed is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: n/a
- Formats: mp3 192kbs
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 24/7 streaming, music from netlabel scene (~20Go, grow every week)
- Notes: 1 Ambient-Dub-Downtempo streaming + 1 Tech-Minimal streaming