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Adventures of an Amateur Cartographer
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| While striding manfully across the streets
| of suburbia this week I've been listened to
| some back issues of FLOSS Weekly that I'd
| previously missed. This excellent podcast by
| Randal Schwartz covers all aspects of Free
| Libre Open Source Software, occasionally
| straying into open source hardware and, in
| the case of the podcast I was listening to,
| open source data.
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http://frogplate.net/blog/amateur-cartographer.html
Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally
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| In a kind of Wikipedia of textbooks,
| Macmillan, one of the five largest
| publishers of trade books and textbooks, is
| introducing software called DynamicBooks,
| which will allow college instructors to edit
| digital editions of textbooks and customize
| them for their individual classes.
|
| Professors will be able to reorganize or
| delete chapters; upload course syllabuses,
| notes, videos, pictures and graphs; and
| perhaps most notably, rewrite or delete
| individual paragraphs, equations or
| illustrations.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/business/media/22textbook.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Meedan Releases the Worldâs First Open Access Arabic/English Translation Memory
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| The MeedanMemory is released under the Open
| Database License, which permits the use,
| copy and distribution of the translation
| memory, produce work using it, and to
| modify, transform and build upon the
| translation memory.
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http://blog.meedan.net/2009/11/07/meedan-releases-the-world%E2%80%99s-first-open-access-arabicenglish-translation-memory/
Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told
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| Public access to research is "inevitable,"
| but it will be a slog to get to it. That was
| the takeaway message of a panel on the role
| libraries can play in supporting current and
| future public-access moves. The panel was
| part of the program at the membership
| meeting of the Association of Research
| Libraries, held here yesterday and today.
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http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Open-Access-to-Research-Is/8475/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Introducing Datapkg: A Tool for Distributing, Discovering and Installing Data âPackagesâ
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| Datapkg 0.5 has been released! This is the
| first release deemed suitable for public
| consumption (though we are still in alpha)!
| This announce therefore serves as both
| introduction and release announcement.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2010/02/23/introducing-datapkg/
Uncovering the truth
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| Briefing papers for the meeting include a
| handsome discussion paper from the Audit
| Commission. Page 13 sports a revealing table
| of users and uses of public-sector data. It
| identifies as users: professional and
| frontline staff; service managers; corporate
| managers, directors and members; national
| government and regulators â and citizens. An
| impressive array of uses is tabulated for
| the users â except citizens. Apparently we
| use it for âchoices about servicesâ and
| âdemocracyâ. Where are the innovators who
| pounced on data.gov.uk and mapped bicycle
| accident black spots?
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/stephen-taylor/uncovering-truth
Open Data in Archaeology
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| In addition to opening up access to journal
| articles for print, new digital technologies
| allow archaeologists to go beyond
| traditional ways of disseminating scholarly
| research. This includes new ways of
| collaborating and publishing findings in
| âreal timeâ on the web using blogs, wikis
| and the like. Also researchers can go beyond
| PDF files of articles for print, towards
| machine readable texts and the raw data and
| other materials underlying research.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2010/02/25/open-data-in-archaeology/
Flat World Knowledge: Open College Textbooks
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| Aside from the invention of the alphabet,
| Gutenberg's press and moveable type, and the
| Internet -- all major disruptors of
| establishment enterprise in their time --
| Open Licensing is surely the most profound
| development yet to enable the transparent
| spread of intellectual capital. âOpenâ
| innovations include Linux and its various
| flavors; Apache servers; Moodle, a powerful
| open learning platform; the Open Library,
| providing unprecedented universal ccess to
| the worldâs literature; open pharma offering
| the promise of widely shared and cheaply
| available pharmaceutical formulae to save
| lives; and Firefox, the worldâs most
| popular web browser. Literally, billions of
| pieces of intellectual capital -- writing,
| imagery, research, art, scientific formulae,
| designs, art, multimedia, and so on are
| licensed as Open -- with open licensing
| growing at exponential rates, enabling a new
| world of creation and discovery -- and now,
| Open licensing has entered the world of
| textbook publishing, to become a solution to
| the high textbook cost problems mentioned
| above.
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http://opensource.com/education/10/2/flat-world-knowledge-open-college-textbooks-disrupting-traditional-textbook-publishin
What does information really want?
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| "Information wants to be free" was, for
| better or worse, a powerful slogan, but 25
| years later its work is done. The crowd has
| gathered, the rallying cry, however flawed,
| worked. But now we have to create some
| actual policies and change some real laws.
|
| If overly restrictive copyright, patent, and
| IP rules are to be replaced with something
| better, the free culture movement has to
| supply people with good, solid reasons why
| they should want to protect these very
| important and threatened freedoms.
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http://opensource.com/life/10/2/what-does-information-really-want
Recent:
Don't restrict the flow of technical knowledge
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| Iâm a member of two IEEE societies that
| publish IEEE Transactions. While most of
| the papers are rather scholarly, I
| sometimes run across one that Iâd like to
| summarize and provide a link for readers to
| download the original paper. That happened
| recently. Knowing that IEEE forbids third
| parties such as T&MW from posting IEEE
| copyrighted work (I can live with that), I
| contacted one of the paperâs authors asking
| if he would post his paper and Iâll link to
| it.
|
| The author agreed to post his paper, but
| heâs not a member of that IEEE society and
| thus he had no way to download his own
| work. That in itself is inexcusable, but it
| gets worse.
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http://www.tmworld.com/blog/Rowe_s_and_Columns/30177-Don_t_restrict_the_flow_of_technical_knowledge.php
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