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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Open Content Project (324 words) |
 | Open content project rely on at least a kernel of a civil society, comprised of dedicated individuals, NGOs, educational institutions and initiatives, and others who see their own actions not only in terms of individual short-term pay-off, but also within the framework of a greater, common goal. |
| One is that open content projects rely on collaborative platforms to enable interaction and to serve as a repository of the material produced. |
| Open content projects, in order to attract contributors, need not just to be able to mobilize a sense of shared culture, but also be immediately useful to the community. |
| Open Content ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes (1972 words) |
| open machine design) that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying and the modifying of the information by anyone; not exclusively by a closed organization, firm or individual. |
| Content can be either in the public domain or under an open license like one of the Creative Commons licenses. |
| The words "open content" were first put together in this context by David Wiley, then a graduate student at Brigham Young University, who founded the OpenContent project and put together the first content-specific (non-software) license in 1998 with input from Eric Raymond, Tim O'Reilly, and others. |
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