www.opuscommons.net

Opus enables you to view, create and exhibit media objects (video, audio, still images, html and text) and make modifications on work done by others, in the spirit of collaboration and the sharing of creativity. Opus is an environment in which every viewer/user is also invited to be a producer, and a means for producers to work together to shape new content. You can view and download material, transform it and then upload the material worked on by you back to the Opus domain. Each media object archived, exhibited and made available for transformation within Opus carries with it data that can identify all those who have worked on it. This means that while Opus enables collaboration, it also preserves the identity of Authors/Creators (no matter how big or small their contribution may be) at each stage of a works evolution. In this way, we hope that Opus can be come a model for a practical realization of the idea of a Digital Commons of creative work on the Internet.

Work on Opus began in September 2001 and the Beta version was uploaded in April 2002. Opus was launched into the public domain with the opening of Documenta11.

Principles and Background
Manual
License

Conception - Raqs Media Collective
Architecture - Monica Narula, Bauke Freiburg, Silvan Zurbruegg
Coding - Silvan Zurbruegg, Pankaj Kaushal
Interface Design - Joy Chatterjee
Design Co-ordination - Monica Narula
Design Acknowledgement - Rana Dasgupta
Documentation - Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Monica Narula, Bauke Freiburg
Licence -Lawrence Liang, Jeebesh Bagchi
Produced by - Raqs Media Collective at the Sarai Media Lab, Sarai/CSDS,
Delhi, 2002
Acknowledgements -
Knowbotic Research, Zurich
Hochschule fžr Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich
Dept. of New Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
Society for Old & New Media, Amsterdam
Documenta11, Kassel
Everyone @ Sarai, Delhi