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Open Source Knowledge Stack Call for Contributors
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| The Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) project is relatively new, formed in
| January 2009 in part with funding from the European Commission. Its goal is
| to provide an open source technology stack for adding semantic web
| enhancements to existing open source content management systems.
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http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/open-source-knowledge-stack-call-for-contributors-004200.php
Recent:
Introducing YouTube EDU!
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| Here’s a little breaking news: Today, Google has launched YouTube EDU, which
| centralizes the content from over 100 universities and colleges (get list
| here). This robust collection gives you access to lectures by professors and
| world-renowned thought leaders, new research and campus tours. At the moment,
| you can access over 200 full courses from leading universities, including
| MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Yale and IIT/IISc. And it’s all
| searchable within YouTube EDU.
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http://www.oculture.com/2009/03/introducing_youtube_edu.html
THIS IS THE BIG ONE!!!! The “OER Bill”
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| I never thought I would title a post in all caps, but I can’t believe I’m
| reading what I’m reading. H.R. 1464, introduced by Bill Foster of Illinois,
| is titled:
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| To require Federal agencies to collaborate in the development of
| freely-available open source educational materials in college-level
| physics, chemistry, and math, and for other purposes.
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| After quoting a number of findings about how completely out of control the
| textbook market and textbook prices are, the bill goes on to say:
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| The head of each agency that expends more than $10,000,000 in a fiscal
| year on scientific education and outreach shall use at least 2 percent of
| such funds for the collaboration on the development and implementation of
| open source materials as an educational outreach effort… There are
| authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 to carry out this section for
| fiscal year 2010 and such sums as necessary for each succeeding fiscal
| year.
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http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/807
MIT Backs Free Access to Scientific Papers
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| Scientific publishing might have just reached a tipping point, thanks to a
| new open access policy at MIT.
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| Following a more limited open-access mandate at Harvard, the legendary
| school's faculty voted last week to make all of their papers available for
| free on the web, the first university-wide policy of its sort.
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http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/openmit.html
Recent:
Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2009
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| The Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) is back for its fourth installment
| bringing together individuals and groups from across the open knowledge
| spectrum for a day of discussions workshops.
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http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
Patent system 'stifling science'
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| The traditional view is that strong patent protection stimulates innovation,
| reassuring companies that it is safe to invest in research without fear of
| being stung by rivals.
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| The full benefits of synthetic biology and nanotechnology will not be
| realised without urgent reforms to encourage sharing of information, they
| say.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7632318.stm
Related:
Patents Over Patients
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| Potential anticancer drugs should be judged on their scientific merit,
| not on their patentability.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/opinion/01moss.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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