{"id":189,"date":"2008-12-03T16:56:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T15:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/?p=189"},"modified":"2008-12-22T01:41:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T00:41:45","slug":"six-common-platform-projects-for-the-next-few-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/12\/03\/six-common-platform-projects-for-the-next-few-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Common Platform projects for the next few months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three months into my journey round the BBC I&#8217;ve come up with a list of six projects I&#8217;d like to tackle in addition to recording stuff here on the blog and generally challenging the BBC to open up. I think it&#8217;s safe to say that not all of these projects will materialise. In fact Nick Reynolds, editor of the <a title=\"The BBC Internet Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/bbcinternet\">BBC Internet Blog<\/a> and my source of wisdom and guidance here at the Beeb, will do one of his big laughs if you suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>If I were to identify the real runners from this list, though &#8211; the ones that I think will be picked up by BBC people and turned into real, you know, <em>things <\/em>&#8211;\u00a0 they&#8217;d be number 1, the map, number 4, the Rights Lab and maybe number 5, the Openness Group. I&#8217;d also like to emphasise that I&#8217;m going to get some badges and mugs made whatever happens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project 1: <em>Map of Openness at the BBC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finding and measuring openness at the BBC.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visual guide to open assets, resources, content, people etc. at the BBC. A navigation aid.<\/li>\n<li>Underlying database: one record per asset, contains metadata about the asset and a value (or values) representing the relative openness of the asset (e.g. A big application published under the GPL gets a 5\/5 value, a programme with a messageboard gets a 1\/5)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A rating scheme that measures openness and encourages competition for higher ratings.<\/li>\n<li>Map renders the underlying data in an interesting and useful manner: a Tube map, a heatmap, a poster, a geotagged overlay for a UK map.<\/li>\n<li>A set of badges that can be carried by qualifying assets (\u201cWe\u2019re on the map\u201d).<\/li>\n<li>Alternative renderings are possible: a game-like interface might be possible: an ARG? Tron-style fly-through. Accessible, public, open\u2026<\/li>\n<li>An API providing access to the data for others to model and to encourage similar thinking elsewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Project 2: <em>From the future<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We solicit stories told in the past tense from the perspective of a time in the future (a fixed time? Ten years? 50?) on the theme of openness.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No prescribed format: text, comicbook, audio, video\u2026<\/li>\n<li>No prescribed genre: sci-fi, literary fiction, \u2018non-fiction\u2019\u2026<\/li>\n<li>A published mine of narratives that capture the possibilities, both good and bad, for openness at the BBC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Project 3: <em>Festival of the Future (Festival of Openness)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A strand in the Electric Proms for next year.<\/li>\n<li>A standalone festival of content in all forms that celebrates and exemplifies openness.<\/li>\n<li>A trial project for an open commissioning model.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Project 4: <em>Rights Lab<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BBC rights experts, content creators and geeks from across the corporation working to reinvent rights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researching the value of open (and open-ish) rights models for BBC stakeholders, particularly licence fee-payers.<\/li>\n<li>Cataloguing and rating the open licencing models that are available. Deciding which are most applicable to the BBC\u2019s public service goals.<\/li>\n<li>Designing and testing new rights models<\/li>\n<li>Proposing and helping to design rights frameworks, platforms and tools for use at the BBC<\/li>\n<li>Communicating findings and best practice to others<\/li>\n<li>Running a UK \u2018open rights forum\u2019 for groups and individuals outside the BBC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Project 5: <em>Openness Group<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All the BBC\u2019s openness nuts in one place. A informal group with a monthly forum supported by management but with no formal brief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A programme of events: speakers, demos, movies and happenings in support of openness.<\/li>\n<li>A source of expertise and opinions about openness for the BBC and others.<\/li>\n<li>A lobbying group, a repository of wisdom and experience.<\/li>\n<li>A cross-departmental, cross-disciplinary, cross-media meeting place for openness advocates.<\/li>\n<li>A place where people can argue about openness.<\/li>\n<li>A web site, a code repository, a library of openness texts and standards.<\/li>\n<li>A physical space with sofas and beanbags.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Project 6: <em>Promoting openness<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Entertaining materials that communicate the openness message and encourage people to get with the programme:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Desk stuff: mugs, badges and calendars and cards that say: \u201cTHINK OPEN\u201d and provide coordinates for further learning.<\/li>\n<li>Check lists and crib sheets: how to be open. How to incorporate openness into your TV programme\/web site\/policy\/application (delete where not applicable)<\/li>\n<li>A page on Gateway (natch).<\/li>\n<li>A blog http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/openness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months into my journey round the BBC I&#8217;ve come up with a list of six projects I&#8217;d like to tackle in addition to recording stuff here on the blog and generally challenging the BBC to open up. I think it&#8217;s safe to say that not all of these projects will materialise. In fact Nick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,8,131,18,130,9],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-commonplatform","tag-map","tag-openness","tag-project","tag-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}