Paul Walk wrote:
> Consider every penny spent on
> building a portal to be money which could, and should have been spent
> on the 'plumbing'. Offer an API at the earliest opportunity. Offer
> incentives, prizes, whatever it takes for the developers to build the
> applications they they want to build on top of your API. Showcase the
> best. This has worked for the BBC. It has worked for Flickr. It's
> still a gamble, but a more controlled and risk-managed one, where some
> of the risk is born by third-parties.
This is also something we're giving a go. If I was on twitter I'd
preface this cheeky request for help with 'dear lazyweb'. Does anyone
have good examples, bad examples, personal experience, whatever, on
competition models, licensing, preservation, timelines, platforms, other
public domain data sources, visualisation tools, etc? You can email me
offlist if that's easier, I can post a compiled list back here.
I was at JISC's recent dev8D event and got some good ideas there, and
I'm happy to share the research I've already done if anyone is
interested.
And Frankie: I apologise for the thread hijacking. At least I'm not
talking about copyright... (But a huge yay for a 'license to effectively
indemnify museums for a range of collections-based activities including
web publication').
cheers, Mia
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