Scenario: pride and attribution

Summary	We all love creative commons, open content and collaborative technologies. But attribution management is becoming a nightmare.
Group / workshop	Digital Identities	Status	alpha
Project details...	http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/about/

Situation

What is the setting for this scenario? Describe the educational, technological and institutional setup.

Planet is a multi-partner project, with a strong participatory approach. We work by engaging with multiple groups of practitioners and leading them through a process of collaborative reflection. This process draws on team members' and participants' personal experiences, backed by relevant web resources (blog posts, wikis, etc.)

Task

What is the problem to be solved, or the intended effect?

As the project matures, we wish to produce materials for publication. These materials are based on existing contributions on the Planet platform. Our system has built-in attribution mechanisms:

• authors are allowed - and encouraged - to choose their prefered licence.
• the system itself carries a creative commons licence.
• all edits are tracked and named.

Yet, when we start writing for publication, we are still confronted with seemingly intractable problems:

• many contributions were collected at workshops. the authors posted a fragment of an idea, and never returned to edit it. often it is hard to contact them and ask for permissions.
• many contributions have been edited or commented on by many authors. acknowledging all by name would take too much space.
• it is hard to define thresholds of "significant" contribution to a shared text.
• the volume of contributions multiplies these problems to an immense scale.

Patterns

Identify patterns appropriate for the situation and the task. How would they inform the solution?

Solution

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Expected Results

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Lessons Learned

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Licensing

This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.