Adding Some SPARQL to the Semantic Web
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| Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic Web project has been churning away in the
| background for so long now that it's easy to overlook the steady progress it
| is making...
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=372&blogid=14
Fighting for Open Access in Russia
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| The UK is apparently not the only country where there is a fight going on for
| open access to government information:
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| The Institute for Information Freedom Development (IIFD) fighting for the
| state standards to be available in the internet has managed to persuade
| the Russian government in its rightness. On the eve of the New Year’s
| holidays the decree of the RF cabinet of ministers setting the procedure
| to publish the national standards on the site of the Federal Agency for
| Metrology and Technical Regulation (Rostehregulirovanie) has been
| enforced. The document foresees the standards to be open and available
| free of charge. However, the officials do not intend to give up.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/01/fighting-for-open-access-in-russia.html
He says that Russia is ahead of the UK (he's from the UK by the way). That's
probably correct given the scams at the British Library, the BBC, National
Archives and other institutes that offshore decisions to a multiple-times
convicted monopoly abuser.
They probably make back-door deals and exchange favours.
Related:
Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy
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| "A member of Parliament of the United Kingdom has launched a stinging
| attack on the U.K. government's IT strategy, saying that it has given
| Microsoft too much control.
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| John Pugh, who is a member of Parliament, or MP, for Southport and a
| member of the Public Accounts Committee, was speaking in an
| adjournment debate on Tuesday that he had called. The aim of the
| debate, he said, was to explore the alternatives to using Microsoft
| software, including open source."
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| [...]
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http://www.news.com/Lawmaker-blasts-U.K.-government-on-Microsoft-policy/2100-1012_3-6212721.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ashm2
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