Re: Zotero and WikiEducator

Hello M.D.Muthukumaraswamy

On the chance that this will be helpful, here is a copy of the Intellectual Property Policy that Otago Polytechnic is using. I appreciate that your organisation is different to ours, but I send this on the chance of similarities between us.

In short, the Polytechnic respects the choices of the individuals within the organisation as well as various other stakeholders, as to their ownership and copy rights assigned over their IP. However, as an organisation Otago Polytechnic uses and encourages the use of CC BY as a statement of copyright. To this end, the organisation's default position is CC BY with provisions to restrict further if needed.

If there is a need, such as commercial sensitivity, cultural sensitivity, or 3rd party property rights to uphold, then these reasons should be explained and put forward to management before appropriate restrictions are put on the works (all rights reserved being the last resort).

It is early days for us yet, and we are slowly moving through the organisation aligning the various departments to this new policy (human resources, web team, library, marketing, academic departments...) and it is quite a shift for some. But at least the Policy is in place, giving us a green light to move whatever permissible content into the free content domains, while retaining others in restricted domains where needed, and building examples of the successful reuse of otherwise unused content. 

Wikieducator is but one "free content domain" that we use.

Regards
Leigh Blackall
Educational Developer,
Otago Polytechnic

On Jan 31, 2008 8:53 PM, M.D.Muthukumaraswamy <mdmuthukumaraswamy-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Dr. Wayne Mackintosh:
I am personally an advocate for making our resources available under free
contents license. However not all resources available with our Centre can be
free. We are at the moment studying different types of licensing available
to arrive at a policy decision.
With the best regards,

Yours truly,
M.D.Muthukumaraswamy

----- Original Message -----
From: "mackiwg" <WMackintosh-GAVDuV57cUE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "WikiEducator" <wikieducator-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:01 PM
Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Zotero and WikiEducator


>
> Hi M.D.Muthukumaraswamy
>
> Will your content of resources be available under a free content
> license that meets the requirements of the free cultural works
> defintion?
>
> Cheers
> Wayne
>
> On Jan 30, 9:59 pm, "M.D.Muthukumaraswamy"
> <mdmuthukumarasw...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Randy:
>> Thanks for your interest in our organization which is India's National
>> folklore Support Centre and its official website
>> iswww.indianfolklore.orgI direct the Centre and now we are in the process
>> of moving our website to a large server. It will be up and running again
>> in another ten days time. Apart from offering online courses through our
>> website, we intend to use mediawiki for presenting our huge audi visual
>> archive online. I shall share with you and other educators in the
>> wikieducator community more details once our website up.
>> With warm regards,
>> Yours truly,
>> M.D.Muthukumaraswamywww.indianfolklore.org
>>
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: Randy Fisher
>>   To: wikieducator-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>   Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:34 PM
>>   Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Zotero and WikiEducator
>>
>>   Hi MD,
>>
>>   See Wayne's reply above. (I will reply forthwith).
>>
>>   Also, I checked out your indianfolklore.org site - what are your plans
>> for this?
>>
>>   - Randy
>>
>>   On Jan 29, 2008 11:42 PM, M.D.Muthukumaraswamy
>> <mdmuthukumarasw...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Randy:
>>     thanks for the lead. I checked Codex site and it seems it is specific
>> to that organization's wiki.
>>     Yes there is an export facility in zotero to send an iem in a
>> collection as wiki citation template. In the preferences option if one
>> specifies the domain path (in our case, it is wiki educator) then it is
>> possible to send a reference stored in zotero collection to a wiki page,
>> I have gathered. I am yet to check that in practice but hope this is
>> useful.
>>     Thanks once again
>>     Yours truly,
>>     M.D.Muthukumaraswamy
>>    www.indianfolklore.org
>>
>>       ----- Original Message -----
>>       From: Randy Fisher
>>       To: wikieducator-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>       Cc: Wayne Mackintosh
>>       Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:00 PM
>>       Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Zotero and WikiEducator
>>
>>       Hi MD,
>>
>>       While I'm not a techie - I found this on the Zotero developer
>> blog - would this be of any help? Anyone else?
>>
>>       - Randy
>>
>>       Zotero To GROK Codex
>>       Author/Contact: Fitzgerald Steele
>>
>>       Organization: GROK Lab, University of Iowa
>>
>>       URL: Zotero To GROK Codex Project Page
>>
>>       Our research lab (GROK Lab, University of Iowa) maintains a wiki
>> where we post commentary about articles we read, but its always been a
>> pain to manually enter citation info into the wiki. I've created an
>> extension to Zotero to export a Zotero item directly to a page in our
>> wiki. I think this will be a good way to introduce our students to
>> Zotero, its functionality, and possibilities.
>>
>>       On Jan 29, 2008 9:43 PM, M.D.Muthukumaraswamy
>> <mdmuthukumarasw...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi Everyone:
>>         I am new to the list and also to wikieducator. I have been using
>> zotero for quite sometime now and I have found that to be very useful. If
>> there is a possiblity of exporting zotero collections to wiki articles,
>> it will be of great use.
>>         Yours truly,
>>         M.D.Muthukumaraswamy
>>        www.indianfolklore.org
>>
>>           ----- Original Message -----
>>           From: Sandhya Gunness
>>           To: wikieducator-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>           Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:27 AM
>>           Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Zotero and WikiEducator
>>
>>           Hi Randy,
>>           Downloaded Zotero and am currently viewing the tour..It seems
>> to be a great tool..specially with the collaborative sharing of resources
>> tool.
>>           Thank you so much for sharing it with us,
>>           Sandhya
>>
>>           On Jan 28, 2008 8:53 PM, Randy Fisher <wikira...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>             Hi Everyone,
>>
>>             I've come across Zotero - a Firefox download for adding,
>> storing and searching bibliographical references - a tool for up and
>> coming scholars and their ilk (you know I'm taking a Masters degree!).
>>
>>             Has anyone had any experience with it? -www.zotero.org
>>
>>             On another note, here's an interesting post on their
>> site -http://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-and-the-internet-archive-join-forces/
>>             - they've joined forces with the Internet Archive. I'm
>> wondering if there's something we can do with WikiEducator (maybe drawing
>> in profs and students to use WikiEd, and reference and store OER
>> materials, etc. Or, something collaborative....
>>
>>             Awaiting your input...
>>
>>             - Randy
>>
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