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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…