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New Peer-Reviewed, Open Access Journal About Academic Librarianship Debuts
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| The title of the new journal is: Codex: the
| Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL.
|
| Codex is a completely free, open-access
| peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused
| on academic libraries and academic
| librarianship. Our inaugural issue
| features solicited articles that cover a
| variety of topics, from green renovations
| in special collections to the use of
| LibraryThing and Delicious in libraries
| to writing for publication, and more!
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http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/09/new-peer-reviewed-open-access-journal-about-academic-librarianship-debuts/
Jaron Lanier's sloppy case against the forces of the internet
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| Jaron Lanier is a very smart guy. Heâs a
| respected computer scientist, composer and
| artist. Now heâs turned his attention to the
| state of the internet in what appears to be a
| merciless attack on some very elderly straw
| men.
|
| In an article in the Wall Street Journal to
| promote his book You Are Not A Gadget, Lanier
| attacks âWeb 2.0â, âOpen Cultureâ, âFree
| Softwareâ and the âLong Tailâ. These are, he
| says, âterms for a new kind of collectivism
| that has come to dominate the way many people
| participate in the online worldâ.
|
| Leaving aside the fact that itâs taken Lanier
| six years to muster an attack on Web 2.0, a
| concept that has almost reached pensionable
| age in web terms, his critique is a mess.
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/100004521/jaron-laniers-sloppy-case-against-the-forces-of-the-internet/
The future is wide open
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| In fact, there are many opportunities for
| open source or open data to help improve
| economies at the citizen level. There is
| movement towards "open data" which is the
| release of public data in usable formats
| (e.g. postal code listings) without charge.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2730
Recent:
How to Learn Just About Anything Online ... For Free
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| Stan Peirce had been looking for new
| pursuits after a long career as an
| electrical engineer with Eastman Chemical
| Co. in Kingsport, Tenn. Then, last year,
| while searching the Internet, he stumbled on
| nearly 2,000 academic courses that the
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology had
| put online. Peirce saw MITâs offeringsâits
| OpenCourseWare project complete with
| syllabuses, assignments, exams and, in many
| cases, audio or video lecturesâas nothing
| short of an educational gold mine.
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http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourworld/reinventing/articles/freelearning.html
MapOSMatic: generate city maps from OpenStreetMap data
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| We are pleased to announce the release of
| MapOSMatic, a set of tools to automatically
| generate cities' map from OpenStreetMap
| data. MapOSMatic takes care of generating a
| labelled grid over the map, a list of street
| with references matching the grid as well as
| a nice layout of the city if its
| administrative boundaries are known. For
| now, it only supports rendering French
| metropolitan cities' maps, but it will soon
| be extended to other parts of the world.
| MapOSMatic is Open Source / Free Software
| licensed under AGPLv3.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/351961/
OpenStreetMap reaches 200,000 user milestone
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| OpenStreetMap Founder Steve Coast has
| announced that the OpenStreetMap (OSM)
| Project now has more than 200,000 registered
| users. The project, originally started in
| August of 2004, has become increasingly
| popular in recent months. The new milestone
| comes less than ten months after the project
| reached 100,000 registered users back in
| March of 2009. OpenStreetMap is an open
| source project, run by the OpenStreetMap
| Foundation, that builds free online maps,
| not based on any copyright or licensed map
| data.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenStreetMap-reaches-200-000-user-milestone-895518.html
Opening up UK local spending data
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| While this is currently experimental, in the
| future he plans to make it easy to export
| data in XML/JSON as well as to create more
| sophisticated visual representations of the
| data.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2010/01/05/opening-up-uk-local-spending-data/
Title: Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research
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| Abstract: Articles whose authors make them
| Open Access (OA) by self-archiving them
| online are cited significantly more than
| articles accessible only to subscribers.
| Some have suggested that this "OA Advantage"
| may not be causal but just a self-selection
| bias, because authors preferentially make
| higher-quality articles OA.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0361
HiperBarrio Maps San Javier La Loma with Open Street Maps
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| Last Saturday Fredy Rivera, a leading mapper
| of Open Street Maps based in BogotÃ,
| organized a workshop at the small public
| library in La Loma to teach its young
| residents how to make a map of their own
| community.
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http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2009/12/05/hiperbarrio-maps-san-javier-la-loma-with-open-street-maps/
Potlatch/Openstreetmap going proprietary ?
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| ActionScript 3 !? Wait, that means NO more
| access for free software users!
|
| What a pity, such an exemplar case of good
| open SWF practice (sources buildable with
| free software, binaries playable with free
| software) coming to an end.
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http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/72
How To Organize A Mapping Party
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| We had a mapping party at NIT Calicut
| recently. After the first day of the event I
| shared some ideas to make such mapping
| parties better with GeoHackers team.
|
| [...]
|
| Maps are created at this stage. The data we
| have mined are ordered, analyzed, and
| tagged. We need to make sure that all the
| team follows a naming convention or comment.
| The coordinator should watch for over
| marking / mis-marking of the same location.
| Once the data is properly tagged, it is time
| to upload it to the OSM server.
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http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-organize-mapping-party.html
FLOSS Weekly 81: OpenStreetMap.org
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| OpenStreetMap.org, the provider of free and royalty-free geographic data.
|
| Guest: Steve Coast for OpenStreetMap.org
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http://www.twit.tv/FLOSS
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