Kendra initiative
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The Kendra Initiativehttp://www.kendra.org.uk/index.php founded by Daniel Harris in late 1999 is an open source initiative to create ways of using the Internet
to discover, use, share and pay for digital media
such as music
, web content
, book
s and film
s. Kendra seeks to foster an open distributed marketplace for digital media. Kendra has over 1000 participants from more than 50 countries. It maintains a website and wiki detailing its project activities and pilot trials.
Kendra's goals are to:
* Simplify and streamline buying and selling digital content by driving
industry adoption of open protocols.
* Enable interoperability between service providers, media applications and devices
- every link in the content value chain.
* Build a system where consumers can use any device or application to browse, search
and purchase from the globally distributed collection of content catalogues.
* Create a more pleasurable buying experience for consumers and increase reach and
revenue for content owners.
Kendra participants build practical demonstrations of proposed systems by conducting pilot trials: catalogue, rules, interface, commerce, network, etc. with the aim to drive interoperability between all of the participants.
For example Kendra enables all catalogue owners to publish data about their content. Showing that searches of all of these distributed catalogues can be accomplished as if they were one. Kendra is seeking similar objectives for payment service providers with a payment framework analogous to our current banking system.
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Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
to discover, use, share and pay for digital media
Digital media
Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital form. It can refer to the technical aspect of storage and transmission Digital media is a form of electronic media where data is stored in digital (as opposed to analog) form. It can refer to the technical aspect of...
such as music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, web content
Web content
Web content is the textual, visual or aural content that is encountered as part of the user experience on websites. It may include, among other things: text, images, sounds, videos and animations....
, book
Book
A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of hot lava, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf or leaflet, and each side of a leaf is called a page...
s and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
s. Kendra seeks to foster an open distributed marketplace for digital media. Kendra has over 1000 participants from more than 50 countries. It maintains a website and wiki detailing its project activities and pilot trials.
Kendra's goals are to:
* Simplify and streamline buying and selling digital content by driving
industry adoption of open protocols.
* Enable interoperability between service providers, media applications and devices
- every link in the content value chain.
* Build a system where consumers can use any device or application to browse, search
and purchase from the globally distributed collection of content catalogues.
* Create a more pleasurable buying experience for consumers and increase reach and
revenue for content owners.
Kendra participants build practical demonstrations of proposed systems by conducting pilot trials: catalogue, rules, interface, commerce, network, etc. with the aim to drive interoperability between all of the participants.
For example Kendra enables all catalogue owners to publish data about their content. Showing that searches of all of these distributed catalogues can be accomplished as if they were one. Kendra is seeking similar objectives for payment service providers with a payment framework analogous to our current banking system.
See also
- micropaymentMicropaymentA micropayment is a financial transaction involving a very small sum of money and usually one that occurs online. PayPal defines a micropayment as a transaction of less than 12 USD while Visa prefers transactions under 20 Australian dollars, and though micropayments were originally envisioned to...
s - metadata
- intellectual propertyIntellectual propertyIntellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
- copyrightCopyrightCopyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...
- Peer-to-peer file sharingPeer-to-peer file sharingP2P or Peer-to-peer file sharing allows users to download files such as music, movies, and games using a P2P software client that searches for other connected computers. The "peers" are computer systems connected to each other through internet. Thus, the only requirements for a computer to join...
- MusicBrainzMusicBrainzMusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open content music database. Similar to the freedb project, it was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the CDDB...
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