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Episode: 3977
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Title: HPR3977: Creative Commons Search Engine
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3977/hpr3977.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 18:11:11
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,977 for Tuesday 31 October 2023.
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Today's show is entitled, Creative Commons Search Engine.
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It is hosted by Ahukad and is about five minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, there is a new search engine
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for creative commons content.
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You are listening to a show from the Reserve Q.
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We are airing it now because we had free slots that were not filled.
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This is a community project that needs listeners to contribute shows in order to survive.
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Please consider recording a show for Hacker Public Radio.
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Hello, this is Ahukad,
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what's coming you to Hacker Public Radio and another exciting episode.
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And this particular one is an emergency show.
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So if you're hearing this, it means the queue is low.
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And we really need to get some more shows.
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So, you know, you've been sitting out there with an idea for something.
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It doesn't have to be big.
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This is going to be a little quicky one here.
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But, you know, we need to have everyone contribute.
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So, what I want to do today is I want to talk about something a little kind of a news development a little bit.
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And that is that there is a new search engine for creative commons content.
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Now, we've talked a lot about creative commons content on Hacker Public Radio.
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I know I've talked about using it with GIMP and with Libra Office and similar sorts of things.
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And I'm a great believer in creative commons.
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Obviously, Hacker Public Radio is as well because Hacker Public Radio is licensed under creative commons.
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And all of my content is also licensed under creative commons.
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And, you know, if you've been to, I've got several websites.
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And, you know, I've got the license very clearly stated at the bottom of each page that says that it is creative commons, you know, attribution.
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Now, there are various levels of creative commons licenses.
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I'm not going to get into all of that right now.
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I have licensed some of my stuff as actually some of the photos and things that I've done.
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I have set those as creative commons, what's called creative commons zero, which is essentially public domain.
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And, you know, all of the photos I have on Flickr are creative commons licensed.
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So, who knows? They may show up in this search engine because Flickr is one of the places they're indexing.
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Now, what is this search engine that we're talking about?
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It is something called Openverse, link in the show notes, although if you search for Openverse, you'll probably find it equally well.
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Right now, as I'm recording this, they claim that they have indexed 700 million creative works.
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And so far, all they're working on are stock photos, images, and audio content.
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Sources include the Smithsonian, the Cleveland Museum of Art, NASA, Flickr,
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Europeana, and the New York Public Library.
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But they're looking to expand both the sources, the index, and the types of content.
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Now, if you want to see a more extensive list of sources, there's a link in the show notes.
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They have a sources page.
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Now, they want to go further with this.
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They've estimated that there are 2.5 billion creative commons licensed items of all types.
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And they're also looking to include video, texts, 3D models, and more.
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Now, this Openverse is really the latest incarnation of something that was called CC Search
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that was originally created by Creative Commons.
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And then in 2019, that was taken over by WordPress, which assumed stewardship for it, and still is.
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And they are looking for contributors.
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I put a link in the show notes for that.
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So if you're interested in contributing to what they do, which, of course, we encourage,
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then you can go to that page as well.
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So this is a hookah for Hacker Public Radio signing off and encouraging you, as always,
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to support free software and creative commons content.
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Bye-bye.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at HackerPublicRadio.org.
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Today's show was contributed by a HPR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording podcasts, then click on our contribute link to find out
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how easy it leads.
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Hosting for HPR has been kindly provided by an onsthost.com, the internet archive, and
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our syncs.net.
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On this advice status, today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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