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Data.gov.uk Newspaper
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| Weâve been thinking about the beta
| Data.gov.uk repository, and wanted to
| explore putting some of the information
| contained within into peopleâs hands in a
| form that is accessible, timely, and relevant.
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http://blog.newspaperclub.co.uk/2009/10/16/data-gov-uk-newspaper/
German government to host flu database
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| The German Ministry of Food, Agriculture &
| Consumer Protection (BMELV) today announced
| that it has agreed to host the influenza
| gene sequence database of the Global
| Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data
| (GISAID), putting its future on a more solid
| footing as the world enters the second wave
| of the H1N1 flu pandemic.
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http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/oct2009gisaid.html
The Utter Moral Bankruptcy of the DNA Database
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| This is an utter scandal on so many levels,
| but above all because the UK government is
| continuing to foist this intrusive,
| disproportionate, racist and morally
| repugnant approach upon us when it's *own
| figures* demonstrate that it is failing more
| and more each year.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/10/utter-moral-bankruptcy-of-dna-database.html
Recent:
OpenStreetMapS.org now owned by OSMF
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| Thanks to some great work by Grant Slater and Andy
| Robinson all those people who mistake openstreetmap
| for openstreetmaps will now get directed to the
| right place.
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http://www.opengeodata.org/2009/10/16/openstreetmaps-org-now-owned-by-osmf/
EU Bookshop Digital Library goes live - All the EU publications in one place
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| Scanning 12 million pages makes more than 110 000 EU
| publications available free of charge for download
| in the EU Bookshop Digital Library. It offers all
| publications ever edited by the Publications Office
| on behalf of the EU institutions, agencies and other
| bodies since 1952.
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http://publications.europa.eu/eu_bookshop/eub3/index_en.htm
Is open-access journal publishing a vanity publishing industry?
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| Vanity journal domination is not occurring, nor is
| it likely to occur, among OA journals. Vanity
| journal existence will and does happen among both OA
| and subscription-fee journals, but at least for OA
| journals is a benign phenomenon. As subscription-
| fee journals more and more charge author-side fees,
| including hybrid open-access fees, one can only hope
| that the baseless vanity press recrimination against
| open-access journals will fade away.
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/10/16/is-open-access-publishing-a-vanity-publishing-industry/
The Commons Meme Becomes More Common
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| One of the great knock-on benefits of Elinor Ostrom
| sharing the Nobel prize for Economics is that the
| concept of the commons is getting the best airing
| than it's ever had.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/10/commons-meme-becomes-more-common.html
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