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;Title: Growing the free library: Discovering, documenting, and digitizing public domain periodical literature from most of the 20th century

;[[Submissions#Proposal Themes|Theme]]  Relationship Building & Support /  Tech & Tools 

;[[Submissions#Academic Peer Review Option|Academic Peer Review option]]:  No

;[[Submissions#Presentation Types|Type of submission]]: Presentation

;Author: John Mark Ockerbloom

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;Wikimedia username: JohnMarkOckerbloom

;Affiliation(s) (optional): <!-- Organization, company, Wikimedia affiliate, etc. --> University of Pennsylvania

;Abstract: <!-- At least 300 words to describe your proposal, can also link to any pages, slidedecks, etc. that you may have. -->

Libraries hold large collections of periodical literature from
the 20th century that are of interest to Wikipedians, but that
are currently only available in print form or behind paywalls.
Yet much of this literature as late as the 1960s or even the
1980s is in the public domain in the US and can be placed online
by anyone interested, because copyright was not renewed, or other
copyright formalities were not observed.  Until recently, though,
it has been very difficult or time-consuming to determine what periodical
literature is public domain due to factors like these,
and what is still under copyright.

In this presentation, I will show and discuss the results of
a project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services
to make it much easier to clear up copyright uncertainties for
20th-century magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, and other
periodical and serial literature.  We have published a complete
inventory of all periodicals with active copyright renewals made
up to 1977, giving the issue dates for each periodical's first renewal.  (Our
inventory complements an existing database at the Copyright Office where one
can look up renewals from 1978 onwards.)   We have prepared a
step-by-step guide on how to use this inventory and other resources
to determine the US copyright status of periodical literature.
We are also converting this inventory into structured JSON data files
that are now interlinkable with Wikidata, and that can be enhanced
by interested Wikipedians and others.

We Wikipedians and librarians can use this data and guide to help clear copyrights
for material published in periodicals that could be digitized
from library collections and included or quoted in places like
Wikipedia or Wikisource.  We can add further details about periodical
issue and contribution renewals that can make it easier to clear
copyrights to specific issues or works of interest published well
after 1922 (the usual stopping point for many digitization
projects).  We can add or link to periodical contents and author
information that can help Wikipedians find sources of interest, clear
copyrights outside the US, and even track down rightsholders to
get permission to use their content.  We can further integrate
this information with Wikidata to build up an open global knowledge base
of periodical literature and its rights, to support making as much
of it free to the world online as we can.  Come to this presentation
to learn how, and to share ideas about making the most of these
resources.

* More about the project: https://everybodyslibraries.com/2018/06/15/public-domain-serials-renewal-inventory-complete/
* Our inventory: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/firstperiod.html
* Copyright clearance guide: Coming soon (should be available by the time of WikiConference)
* Wikidata property documentation: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5396

;Length of presentation: <!-- 30-45 min. for panels, 30-75 min. for workshops, 15-30 min. for presentations --> 20 minutes (give or take)

;Special requests: <!-- For example - technology requirements, can not present at specific times, etc. --> Need projector and screen for showing slides from my Mac.  If there's reliable internet (wireless or USB-compatible wired) I could also give a short demo/walkthrough of the project's web pages and data.

;Preferred room size: <!-- How many do you think will be in audience? e.g. 10, 25, 50, 100. We will try to match, but larger rooms have limited availability. --> 40

;Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?: I did a presentation around the beginning of this project at the Digital Library Federation Forum in 2017.  Slides and notes are at https://osf.io/ze7yq/  .  This presentation, which will take place just after the end of the project, will show what's it's accomplished, and how Wikipedians can use and add to what we produced.

;If you will be incorporating a slidedeck during your presentation, do you agree to upload it to Commons before your session, with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, including suitable attribution in the slidedeck for any images used?: Yes.

;Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?: Probably not.

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