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Examples of clip art from the Open Clip Art Library

The Open Clip Art Library project aims to create a collection of vector clip art that is free content.[1]

History

The project started in early 2004 by Inkscape developers Jon Phillips 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. 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 by their contributors. They are stored in Scalable Vector Graphics (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 AGPL-based Aiki Framework, 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. [2]

As of April 2010 the Open Clip Art Library has over 65,000 members and over 30,000 SVG graphics.

Packages

Some Linux distributions, including Mandriva and Ubuntu, include much of the Open Clip Art Library collection releases, packaged as SVG, PNG or OpenDocument format files.[3] 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.

See also

References

  1. ^ Jonathan Phillips. 2005. Introduction to the open clip art library.
  2. ^ Open Clip Art 2.0 Launch
  3. ^ Ubuntu openclipart Packages
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