Open Access Media Importer: Usage and Statistics

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-07-07

Summary:

“A few days ago, at Wikimedia‘s free culture brunch I met up with Daniel Mietchen. He will talk about the Open Access Media Importer at Wikimania. Seeing another person trying to use the software turned out to be an interesting experience; we found new bugs and I realized the necessity of good documentation. Using the Open Acces Media Importer is similar to using a package manager like apt in several ways. First, there are three tools for purposes of downloading data (oa-get), local operations (oa-cache) and uploading data (oa-put). Second, those programs can work with different sources, but for now only the pubmed source – corresponding to the PMCOpen Access Subset – is actually useful. Running the toolchain consists of five steps ... A screencast demonstrating usage is available. Due to the new statistics functionality, we can be reasonably sure that our efforts will be successful. The output of oa-cache stats pubmed shows that among 694158 supplementary materials in the PMC Open Access Subset, at least 160393 are licensed under a free license, most commonly CC BY. Furthermore, at least 3322 of those are videos. The following figure shows the MIME types of the free content the Open Access Media Importer has gathered. It was generated using oa-cache stats pubmed | plot-helper Be aware that these are lower bounds, as many supplementary materials are not properly labeled with the URL of the corresponding license. This means, barring a major reasoning error the amount of free content that can be extracted will only go up ...”

Link:

http://wir.okfn.org/2012/07/07/open-access-media-importer-usage-and-statistics/

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.wikimedia oa.wikimania oa.oa_media_importer oa.floss

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

07/07/2012, 17:51

Date published:

07/09/2012, 14:11