1.8 million rulings online -- and free
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| Sebastopol man posts half-century's worth of court decisions which could
| shake up $5 billion legal publishing industry
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http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080213/NEWS/802130315/1036/BUSINESS01
Reuters Reaches Out With Open API Semantic Web Service
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| Global information behemoth Reuters (www.reuters.com) waded into the murky
| waters of the semantic web last week with the release of an open application
| programming interface (API) for its new Calais Web service.
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http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=40881
Also:
SOA comes of age
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| Broadly speaking, SOA is the use of open standards to link applications from
| many vendors, leading to an enterprisewide IT structure that avoids the
| isolated silos that have plagued large organizations for decades. The open
| standards allow customers to pay less attention to whom they’re buying
| hardware from and instead emphasize performance and cost.
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http://www.washingtontechnology.com/print/23_02/32230-1.html
Related:
Berkman Center and CALI Partner to Create New Legal Education Resource
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| “We are looking forward to renewing a fruitful relationship with Harvard Law
| School through the Legal Education Commons project, which will provide
| innovative tools and access to open-licensed course materials to our more
| than 200 member law schools” said CALI Executive Director John Mayer.
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http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/newsroom/pressreleases/berkman_center_and_cali_partner_to_create_new_legal_education_resource
Harvard Research to Be Free Online
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| Harvard University will soon begin posting research and articles produced by
| its faculty on the Internet free of charge.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14arts-HARVARDRESEA_BRF.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
A Quest to Get More Court Rulings Online, and Free
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| The domination of two legal research services over the publication of federal
| and state court decisions is being challenged by an Internet gadfly who has
| embarked on an ambitious project to make more than 10 million pages of case
| law available free online.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/technology/20westlaw.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Announcing the Open Library
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| Early this year, when I left my job at Wired Digital, I thought I could look
| forward to months of lounging around San Francisco, reading books on the
| beach and drinking fine champagne and eating foie gras. Then I got a phone
| call. Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive was thinking of pursuing a
| project that I'd been trying to do literally for years.
|
| [...]
|
| So today I'm extraordinarily proud to announce the Open Library project. Our
| goal is to build the world's greatest library,
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http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/openlibrary
Wikipedia Founder Joins EC Open Access Campaign
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| Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he signed a petition calling
| on the European Commission to give the public open access to
| taxpayer-funded scientific research because it was "simple and
| obvious" that the public should have access to research they
| had funded. "Public money should result in public benefit,"
| he added.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/56443.html
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