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Opening up Semantic Search to Ordinary Users
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| Could open source help realise this long-
| held dream? That's the question a project
| called the âInteractive Knowledge Stackâ
| (IKS), funded by the European Commission to
| the tune of 6.57 Euros, is trying to
| answer.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2644&blogid=14
Has Ordnance Survey Managed to Find a Clue?
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| This suggests that people in government are
| gradually beginning to understand that they
| can give away much of their data - well,
| actually, *our* data - and still generate
| revenue by targetting particular
| remunerative sectors.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/11/has-ordnance-survey-managed-to-find.html
Bureau of Meteorology to release water data under CC
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| For Australia water (or the lack of it) is
| a big deal. So big in fact, that the
| Commonwealth Government saw the need to
| establish a national initiative for
| monitoring and publishing water data.
| Charging the Bureau of Meteorology with the
| task, their Improving Water Information
| Program will aggregate hundreds of other
| government departments' and agencies'
| information into the National Water
| Account, an integrated, national water
| monitoring and data collection service. And
| the Bureau are encouraging their partners
| to release their data under Creative
| Commons.
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http://creativecommons.org.au/node/269
Measuring Citation Advantages of Open Accessibility
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| Over the past decade, a good number of
| studies have attempted to demonstrate that
| open access journal articles have higher
| citation rates than traditionally published
| ones.1 These open access articles are
| either published in open access journals or
| are made publicly available through open
| access repositories. More methodologically
| sound studies, however, are needed to
| pinpoint more exactly the impact, if any,
| of open accessibility on citation rates and
| to look at the issue of impact (or non-
| impact) more closely. For instance, of
| those journal articles that have been made
| openly accessible, about what percent of
| them benefit from open online availability?
| What percent of them do not?
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http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november09/soong/11soong.html
Public Domain Calculators
http://wiki.okfn.org/PublicDomainCalculators
In The New Content Economy, Consumers Want Access Not Ownership
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| If we can accept the fact that under-25-
| year-olds will not own content and stop the
| nostalgia for âthe good olâ days,â we can
| create a new economy that is even greater
| than the economy that we are leaving. Then
| the content owners and the eco-system
| around it will all become much more
| profitable and be able to re-invest in the
| creation of even better content that feeds
| this whole system.
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http://paidcontent.org/article/419-in-the-new-content-economy-consumers-want-access-not-ownership/
Finding the laws that govern us
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| Starting today, we're enabling people
| everywhere to find and read full text legal
| opinions from U.S. federal and state
| district, appellate and supreme courts
| using Google Scholar. You can find these
| opinions by searching for cases (like
| Planned Parenthood v. Casey), or by topics
| (like desegregation) or other queries that
| you are interested in. For example, go to
| Google Scholar, click on the "Legal
| opinions and journals" radio button, and
| try the query separate but equal. Your
| search results will include links to cases
| familiar to many of us in the U.S. such as
| Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of
| Education, which explore the acceptablity
| of "separate but equal" facilities for
| citizens at two different points in the
| history of the U.S. But your results will
| also include opinions from cases that you
| might be less familiar with, but which have
| played an important role.
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/finding-laws-that-govern-us.html
Sir Tim: "Public Data is a Public Good"
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/11/sir-tim-public-data-is-public-good.html
Put in your postcode, out comes the data
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| Government data is a valuable resource that
| we have already paid for. We are not
| talking about personal data but data that
| tells us, for example, about the amount and
| type of traffic on our roads, where the
| accidents are, how much is spent on areas
| where these accidents occur. This is data
| that has already been collected and paid
| for by the taxpayer, and the internet
| allows it to be distributed much more
| cheaply than before. Governments can unlock
| its value by simply letting people use it.
| This is beginning to happen in a number of
| countries, notably in the US under the
| Obama Administration, and in June Gordon
| Brown asked us to advise the Government on
| how to make rapid progress here.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6920761.ece
Introduction to the Archive
http://www.quartos.org/index.html
Free Culture Forum: Getting it Together
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| As regular readers will know, I write a lot
| about the related areas of openness,
| freedom, transparency and the commons, but
| it's rare to find them literally coming
| together like this, in the Free Culture
| Forum:
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| Across the planet, people are
| recognizing the need for an
| international space to build and
| coordinate a common agenda for issues
| surrounding free culture and access to
| knowledge. The Free Culture Forum of
| Barcelona created one such space.
|
| [...]
|
| All-in-all, this is an extraordinary
| document with which I find myself in pretty
| much total agreement. It's an great
| achievement, and will be a real reference
| point for everyone working in the fields of
| digital freedom, openness and transparency
| for years to come.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/11/free-culture-forum-getting-it-together.html
Recent:
Access to online information and knowledge â advancing human rights and democracy
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| Information and knowledge are crucial
| factors in human development. We are
| reminded of this constantly, from the
| âknowledge economyâ we live in, to the
| emotional and financial power that
| information and communications
| technologies (ICTs) have over our lives.
| In the words of philosopher Francis Bacon,
| âScientia potentia estâ â knowledge itself
| is power. Present-day movements for access
| to knowledge and the right to information
| have their origins in this simple and
| arguably ancient idea. Despite a rich
| history and wide intellectual acceptance,
| the right to know is not universally
| granted, and the right to know on the
| internet is a particularly bitter struggle
| in many parts of the world.[1]
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http://www.cis-india.org/advocacy/ipr/blog/access-to-online-information-and-knowledge
B-Reel goes Open Source to Standardize Digital and Integrated Production
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| As for the open source approach, "we just
| figured it would be easier for everybody
| to contribute via a wiki than by email or
| meetings. We kind of hope that would
| [lead] to getting balanced general terms,
| a unified view on the process and some
| good assets to use for producers. We think
| it will evolve in iterations as an ongoing
| thing, in smaller and smaller movements,
| with more and more focus," Wahlquist says.
| "Whenever there is a substantial addition,
| we'll add it to the bidsheet. We would
| welcome anyone to endorse it, add to it or
| to help in any way."
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http://creativity-online.com/news/breel-goes-open-source-to-standardize-digital-and-integrated-production/140585
Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia is focusing on accuracy
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| Jimmy Wales is eating dinner alongside
| Princess Caroline of Monaco. Web royalty
| has come to meet the real thing. Wales,
| the man who co-founded Wikipedia eight
| years ago, is in Monaco to be awarded the
| Monaco Media Prize at the principalityâs
| annual invite-only media forum.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6589487/Jimmy-Wales-interview-Wikipedia-is-focusing-on-accuracy.html
100 Excellent Open Access Journals for Educators
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| Just like physicians, the best educators
| stay informed with the latest developments
| in their field. Luckily, it doesnât take
| anything more than time to have access to
| quality journals for educators. The
| following open access journals provide top-
| notch scholarly information available at no
| cost. Most of these journals are published
| just once or a few times a year, so
| subscribe to several so you can keep up-to-
| date on the latest research coming out of
| the field of education.
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http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/11/11/100-excellent-open-access-journals-for-educators/
Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Film Noir, Documentaries & More
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| Where to watch free movies online? Letâs
| get you started. First, we have listed
| dozens of free, high quality films that you
| can watch online. Then, below, you can find
| movie sites that feature free movie
| collections. Classics, international, film
| noir, documentaries, indies â theyâre all
| here, waiting to be watched.
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http://www.openculture.com/2009/11/free_movies_online.html
British Library's Bitter Digital Milestone
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| That is: digitising content that is out of
| copyright, in the public domain, and then
| making us pay through the nose - us as in
| muggins public, which has kept the British
| Library going for two centuries thanks to
| our taxes, in case you'd forgotten - for
| the privilege of viewing it online.
|
| Thanks a bunch, BL, for locking up "an
| increasing proportion of the nation's
| intellectual output" behind a paywall,
| where few will ever see it: that's what
| spreading knowledge is all about, isn't it?
| Great work from a quondam great
| institution, more millstone than
| milestone...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/11/british-librarys-bitter-digital.html
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