Openclipart

Openclipart

The logo of Openclipart, a green pair of scissors
Web address openclipart.org
Commercial? Yes
Type of site
 Media repository
Registration Required (to post/upload)
Content license
 CC Zero 1.0
Unless noted, content is waived of all copyright and related or neighboring rights under this license.
Created by Jon Phillips, Bryce Harrington
Launched 2004
Current status Active

Openclipart is a community and collection of vector clip art that is free content.[1] The project's slogan is, "Openclipart is the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason."[2]

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 started by Christian Schaller (Uraeus) at the 26. Oct 2003[3] [4] 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.

The release of Openclipart 2.0 introduced a change from the old ccHost software to the new AGPL-based Aiki Framework, a content management system made for Openclipart 2.0 that would allow anyone to edit the Web site easily. This release culminated the work of Jon Phillips, Andy Fitzsimon, Bassel Safadi, Michi, Ronaldo Barbachano, and Brad Phillips who assisted in the launch of the new system, which received over 5,000 unique visitors and 50,000 page views daily.[5]

The 3.0 release incorporated a "favoriting" feature, which allows members to make note of their favorite clip art, and an image-editing option that makes the remixing of images significantly easier.

On April 15, 2013, Openclipart launched a new logo and updated website design using a "scissors" logo.[6]

On March 12, 2014, Openclipart announced that Inkpad, an open source drawing app for Apple iPad, released library integration so that the entire collection is available to artists.[7]

Present

Examples of clip art from Openclipart

As of 2016 Openclipart displays the works of over 4,900 artists who have contributed over 89,000 SVG graphics.[8] The entire collection is available for free to download. All images are dedicated to the public domain by their contributors and are stored in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, with thumbnails in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format.

Packages and apps

Some Linux distributions, including Mandriva and Ubuntu, include many of the Openclipart collection releases, packaged as SVG, PNG or OpenDocument format files.[19] These distributions are based on the 2005 pre-ccHost release, since regular releases stopped after the switch to ccHost software. Openclipart 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 Openclipart once more.

Openclipart was included on the cover discs in Linux Format issues 123[20] and 132[21] as a package of browseable SVG's from the Openclipart collection.

See also

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Openclipart.
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