Open Clip Art Library
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Vector graphics
Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon, which are all based on mathematical expressions, to represent images in computer graphics...
clip art
Clip art
Clip art, in the graphic arts, refers to pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively in both personal and commercial projects, ranging from home-printed greeting cards to commercial candles. Clip art comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However,...
that is free content
Free content
Free content, or free information, is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content that meets the definition of a free cultural work...
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History
The project started in early 2004 by InkscapeInkscape
Inkscape is a free software vector graphics editor, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 standard....
developers Jon Phillips
Jon Phillips
Jon "rejon" Phillips is an open source developer, artist, designer, writer, educator, lecturer, and curator with 12+ years of experience creating communities and working within computing culture. He is a founder and developer of Fabricatorz LLC working for clients such as Google, Mozilla and...
and Bryce Harrington to collect designs of flags from all around the world, having been inspired by the efforts to create a collection of flags created by users of vector graphics software Sodipodi
Sodipodi
Sodipodi is an open source vector graphics editor, discontinued in 2004, which is the predecessor to Inkscape.-Development:Sodipodi started as a fork of Gill, a vector-graphics program written by Raph Levien. The main author is Lauris Kaplinski, and several other people have contributed to the...
. It progressed very well and the project goals were extended to generic clipart, and as of October 2007 it incorporated over 10,000 images from over 500 artists, and offers the entire collection for free download. All images are dedicated to the public domain
Public domain
Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
by their contributors. They are stored in Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics is a family of specifications of an XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and dynamic . The SVG specification is an open standard that has been under development by the World Wide Web Consortium since 1999.SVG images and their...
(SVG) format, often with thumbnails in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format.
Present
The release of Open Clip Art Library 2.0 introduces a change from the old ccHost software to the new AGPLAffero General Public License
The Affero General Public License, often abbreviated as Affero GPL and AGPL , refers to two distinct, though historically related, free software licenses:...
-based Aiki Framework
Aiki Framework
Aiki Framework "is a flexible PHP + MYSQL content management framework that allows designers and programmers to easily create and work with existing content management systems from the web.". The is its commercial steward and has used it to build Open Clip Art Library 3.0 and the now public Open...
, a content management system made for Open Clip Art Library 2.0 that would allow anyone to edit the website easily. This release culminates the work of Jon Phillips, Andy Fitzsimon, Bassel Safadi, Michi, Ronaldo Barbachano, and Brad Philips who assisted in the launch of the new system which now receives over 5,000 unique visitors and 50,000 page views daily.
As of April 2010 the Open Clip Art Library has over 65,000 members and over 30,000 SVG graphics.
Packages
Some Linux distributionLinux distribution
A Linux distribution is a member of the family of Unix-like operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distributions are operating systems including a large collection of software applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and database applications...
s, including Mandriva
Mandriva
Mandriva S.A. is a publicly traded Linux and open source software company with its headquarters in Paris, France and development center in Curitiba, Brazil. Mandriva, S.A...
and Ubuntu
Ubuntu (operating system)
Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...
, include much of the Open Clip Art Library collection releases, packaged as SVG, PNG or OpenDocument
OpenDocument
The Open Document Format for Office Applications is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents....
format files.
These distributions are based on the 2005 pre-ccHost release since regular releases stopped after the switch to ccHost software. Open Clip Art Library 0.19, the first version released after switch, was released in March 2009. With the recent release of version 2.0 and updated packages, distributions have bugs filed in their respective bug trackers to begin packaging OCAL once more.