Watch OEWeek Live! Wednesday 8 March Show #2

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Welcome to the third day of OEWeek! IN today’s show we try to recap what has happened so far and give you some idea about events coming up in the next few hours.

But the main feature is our guests who will join us to describe their projects and activities going on this week, as well as highlights of what they have experienced. And whatever else emerges in our informal conversations.

Here are all the details including the exact time converted to your location. The live stream will be embedded below and will be available later as a recording.

When: 2023-03-08T22:00:00Z
Watch Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDAJ3Y3bGIw
Guests (updated as we get closer):

• Paul Hibbitts (Hibbitts Design): Docsify-This (Markdown Publishing, including possible use of GitHub for easily published OER)
• Zack Krida (Automattic): Openverse for finding, reusing,. and attributing openly licensed images and media
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For reference on Openverse, see

Get Into the Openverse for finding CC Licensed Images and Audio

Everybody has their favorite source (or a curated list of them) for finding openly licensed media and we’ve been talking for a while here about Openverse which is the evolution of the Creative Commons CC Search that was adopted and now operated by WordPress. Until today, the site was run under a WordPress banner and URL, but behold, the Openverse is its own entity at https://openverse.org/ [openverse-dot-org] Why is this important? Beyond being a searchable tool of over 600 million images and…

But more importantly, in support of Openverse and this session, I created a challenge to find an image in Openverse to represent a metaphor.

Openverse Image Metaphor Challenge

I’d really like to encourage use of Openverse for locating images (and audio) for OER work. It is the descendent of the original Creative Commons CC Search (any old links you have to that cleanly take to the new Openverse. Here is where I make a case for Openverse: https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/get-into-the-openverse-for-finding-cc-licensed-images-and-audio/4636 If you are interested in learning about Openverse and how it works, we are fortunate to have Zack Krida from Automattic visiting ou…

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Links mentioned:

• Openverse
  • Creative Commons Original Search
  • Openverse API
  • [ccREL: the Creative commons Rights expression Language]
  • image - Schema.org Property
    (ccREL: The Creative Commons Rights Expression Language)
• Docsify This
  • Original issue from Beau Shaw that inspired Paul
  • Zack Just tried Docsify-this with Openverse’s contributor guide:
• SourceHut