TIPPINST -- On a large table and scattered inside several servers sits stacks of creative work from around 20 students who have completed their year-long projects in Tipperary Institute. All this work cries out to be registered in a creative archive alongside other deserving third year projects. Euan Semple, the director of knowledge management for the BBC, has explained to Irishblogs some of the thought process behind the Beeb opening its archive. We in Ireland could learn from the generosity of the BBC's creative archive. The BBC initiative involved the BBC, Channel 4, the bfi and the Open University. It coalesced into the Creative Archive Licence Group and "will release content that will fuel a truly creative nation". Ireland needs this kind of thing, starting with a well-articulated set of action points from Creative Commons Ireland that extends the license for reuse to people living outside Ireland. For me, it would totally justify the cost of the television license.
Damien Mulley has thought about these things and offers these suggestions to RTE:
- Offer podcast wrapped in XML feeds.
- Set all online audio and video archive up for download, using BitTorrent to solve bandwidth issues.
- Encourage mash-ups.
- Generate RSS Feeds for all online content.
- Allow people to comment on online stories.
There's a considerable amount of overhead required to control the comments that some stories attract. But all of these are more worthwhile than another reality television show.
Tom Coates -- BBC radio now open as podcasts.
Damien Mulley -- "Creative Commons in Ireland: Not Just the EFF is Needed". But think about this for a minute: it appears the BBC creative license approves reuse only in specific jurisdictions governed by UK law.
Bonus Link: Doc Searls -- "The New Marcom Game: How the Internet rewrites the rules of marketing communications" from a seminal piece written in 1995.
