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CDK-Taverna: an open workflow environment for cheminformatics
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| To freely support open science based on
| these data resources, it is desirable for
| the processing tools to be open-source and
| available for everyone.
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http://7thspace.com/headlines/339848/cdk_taverna_an_open_workflow_environment_for_cheminformatics.html
Base Map 2.0: What Does the Head of the US Census Say to Open Street Map?
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| Ian White, the CEO of Urban Mapping, makes
| his living collecting and selling geo data.
| For next week's Where 2.0 has put together
| a panel of government mapping agencies (the
| UK's Ordnance Survey and the US's Census
| Department) and community-built mapping
| projects (Open Street Map and Waze).
| Crowdsourced projects like Waze and Open
| Street Map have forced civic agencies to
| reconsider their licensing. They have
| similarly encouraged larger companies like
| Google, NAVTEQ and Tele Atlas to implement
| their own crowdsourcing platforms (like
| Google Mapmaker and Tele Atlas' MapShare).
| Ian and his panelists will discuss all of
| this in Base Map 2.0 on Thursday at Where
| 2.0 - you can consider their conversation
| as Part 1 of the panel.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/base-map-20-what-does-the-head.html
Open Source Ethics and Dead End Derivatives
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| Open Source Hardware is hardware that has
| an open license. You can copy it, develop
| it, and even sell it yourself. You must
| provide attribution to the designer and you
| must also release the derivative source
| files under the same license. This applies
| even if you use a proprietary program for
| your designs.
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http://blog.makerbot.com/2010/03/25/open-source-ethics-and-dead-end-derivatives/
Search engine collects historical resources
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| A search engine is being created to help
| historians find useful sources.
|
| The Connected History project will link up
| currently separate databases of source
| materials.
|
| Once complete, it will give academics or
| members of the public a single site that
| lets them search all the collections.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8577164.stm
The Cass Sunstein Campaign against Open Source Leaks
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| There is no evidence Sunsteinâs theories of
| governmental information control have to do
| with the apparent increasing persecution of
| open source leak outlets, but it does seem
| to stem from the same kind of authoritarian
| instinct.
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http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/03/26/the-cass-sunstein-campaign-against-open-source-leaks/
New Wikipedia Redesign Is Coming Soon
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| Wikipedia is close to rolling out a new
| design that it hopes will make the âuser-
| editedâ encyclopedia easier to use and
| navigate, and thus potentially appeal to
| new users more than the slightly clunky-
| looking current site.
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http://gigaom.com/2010/03/25/new-wikipedia-redesign-is-coming-soon/
Collaborative Futures
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| FLOSS Manuals, true to its name, produces
| manuals for free software applications. The
| manuals themselves are freely licensed and
| often written in book sprints. This
| January, as part of the Transmediale
| festival in Berlin, FLOSS Manuals attempted
| its first non-manual booksprint â a
| considerably harder task, as no structure
| is implied. Only the book title,
| Collaborative Futures, was given â a
| collaborative experiment about the future
| of collaboration.
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http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21374
Time to get the bike out â Kids traffic safety curriculum goes open source
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| In the midst of Treena Grevattâs twitter
| reminders of the early start of cycling in
| Ottawa (and her retweets of wise words and
| links such as this to remind motorists like
| me!), it was encouraging to read the recent
| story entitled Kids traffic safety
| curriculum goes open source.
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http://commonsresource.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/time-to-get-out-the-bike-kids-traffic-safety-curriculum-goes-open-source/
The Battle for Scholarly Publishing's Soul
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| Before Peter Suber became Mr Open Access,
| he was a philosopher by trade. This is
| evident in the long, thoughtful essays he
| writes for the SPARC Open Access
| Newsletter, which help console us for his
| absence these days from the world of
| blogging.
|
| Here's the latest of them, entitled "Open
| access, markets, and missions". It asks
| some deep questions about what kind of
| scholarly publishing we should strive for:
| market oriented or mission oriented?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/03/battle-for-scholarly-publishings-soul.html
Free: Why Authors are Giving Books Away on the Internet
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/IR&CISOPTR=809
Sales Impact of Free eBooks Dissertation Published
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| Dr. John Hilton, who until just recently
| was a doctoral student of mine, has written
| a great dissertation on the impact giving
| away free ebooks has on sales of printed
| books. The findings may surprise you.
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http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1313
Apple's iPad to launch with 30,000-volume free library
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| Apple's e-book reader application, iBooks,
| may be more widely available than
| anticipated, thanks to the inclusion of
| more than 30,000 free e-books from Project
| Gutenberg.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/03/26/apple_ipad_project_gutenberg/
Cologne-based libraries release 5.4 million bibliographic records via CC0
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| From the press release,
|
| Rolf Thiele, deputy director of the USB
| Cologne, states: âLibraries appreciate
| the Open Access movement because they
| themselves feel obliged to provide
| access to knowledge without barriers.
| Providing this kind of access for
| bibliographic data, thus applying the
| idea of Open Access to their own
| products, has been disregarded until
| now. Up to this point, it was not
| possible to download library catalogues
| as a whole. This will now be possible.
| We are taking a first step towards a
| worldwide visibility of library
| holdings on the internet.â
| â
| âIn times in which publishers and some
| library organisations see data
| primarily as a source of capital, it is
| important to stick up for the
| traditional duty of libraries and
| librarians. Libraries have always
| strived to make large amounts of
| knowledge accessible to as many people
| as possible, with the lowest
| restrictions possible,â said Silke
| Schomburg, deputy director of the hbz.
| âFurthermore libraries are funded by
| the public. And what is publicly
| financed should be made available to
| the public without restrictions,â she
| continued.
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http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344
Finding God Through Open Source
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| Regardless of your own feelings, there are
| people who find that this open source
| religion to be more reasonable and in line
| with their own spiritual and world outlook.
| From my investigation, a large number of
| these people are somewhat "geeky" in nature
| and have been exposed to open source
| principles through the open source software
| movement. But that doesn't make it any less
| real for them.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/58925
Mapping software developed by Idaho State University, USU is international hit
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| This free, open-source software is so
| popular that the ISU geosciences department
| will host the 1st International MapWindow
| GIS Users and Developers Conference March
| 31-April 2 at Disney World in Orlando, Fla.
| At least 60 users and developers from
| around the world are expected to attend the
| conference. Attendees include
| representatives from the Environmental
| Protection Agency, National Oceanic and
| Atmospheric Administration and several
| private companies and universities.
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http://www.agweekly.com/articles/2010/03/24/news/ag_news/news31.txt
Eyes wide shut?
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| A debate is underway among the proponents
| and gainsayers of open access about the
| reality of whether OA leads to more
| citations. I am not over-concerned with
| citations as they are not the sole
| indicators of the usage of research output.
| As one of the contributors has said, there
| is an âinvisible collegeâ within which
| data, methodology, ideas are shared among
| researchers via conferences, coffee-breaks,
| workshops, emails, reports, social
| networking and other communication devices.
| While this âcollegeâ informs, it is seldom
| cited.
|
| Another statement made in these exchanges
| was that âopen access is a solution looking
| for a problemâ. This stopped me in my
| tracks, since over the last decade,
| evidence has been accumulating showing the
| high level of information imbalance and
| paucity, especially - but by no means only
| - in the developing world. And it was for
| this reason that the EPT and many other
| initiatives were formed to help resolve the
| problem. It is indisputable that access to
| all necessary research findings had not
| been met in pre-web days. Researchers, we
| had a problem.
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http://epublishingtrust.blogspot.com/2010/03/eyes-wide-shut.html
Sharing Ideas about Open Philanthropy
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| As regular readers of this blog will know,
| for the last five years or so I have been
| tracking the diffusion of the ideas behind
| open source into other spheres. I'm
| particularly interested to see what does
| and does not translate easily to other
| domains.
|
| Here's another application: open
| philanthropy.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/03/sharing-ideas-about-open-philanthropy.html
Making Public Records Public: Why open formats are essential for sharing and preserving government data.
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| Governments worldwide have taken great
| strides in improving the accessibility of
| public information in the last year, but
| itâs just the beginning. Opening of
| government information will be a gradual
| process, but these initial steps and
| realized success have enough momentum to
| accelerate this process â making both
| governance and citizenship better in near
| future.
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http://opensource.com/government/10/3/making-public-records-public-why-open-formats-are-essential-sharing-and-preserving-g
How to Spark a Snowcrash, & What the Web Really Does
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| In order to understand the implications of
| the shift and to internalize it, you need
| to experience it firsthand. You canât tell
| your organization that youâre going to be
| implementing âsocial mediaâ and everyone is
| going to start âcollaborating,â and assume
| that waving a magic wand is going to make
| this happen. My experience has been that I
| had to learn what trusting and sharing
| means on my own.
|
| [...]
|
| What does society reward? Cheating.
| Stealing. Exploitation. Fame. Big houses.
| Fancy cars. Executive titles. Material
| stuff. All these things are attached to
| something else. Something has to be
| sacrificed to get these things. And they
| often donât make you happy in the end.
| Theyâre not who you really are, or what you
| really care about, but you do them because
| thatâs how itâs set up, and weâre just
| operating within the framework that exists.
|
| But, thereâs this other way.
|
| In this experimental society in which you
| can participate, if you want â people are a
| little more âreal.â People will give you
| advice, pass along a link they think might
| interest you, offer to collaborate on a
| real project, or exchange some information
| with you, for no other reason besides that
| itâs âhow THIS system works.â
|
| The precondition is trust. You canât buy
| trust. You canât force trust.
|
| You earn trust.
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http://emergentbydesign.com/2010/03/20/how-to-spark-a-snowcrash-what-the-web-really-does/
Open Notebook Science
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| Open notebook science (ONS) is the practice
| of making the primary record of a research
| project publicly available online as it is
| generated. This involves placing the
| personal, or laboratory, notebook of the
| researcher(s) online along with all raw and
| processed data, and any associated
| material. The approach can be summed up by
| the slogan "no insider information".
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http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/2010/03/open-notebook-science-chytrid-project.html
Open Source: Next generation Focuses on Data
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| First there was Open Source â for software.
| The next phase is about data â Open Data.
| And local, state and federal grovernments
| are setting the trend.
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http://www.formtek.com/blog/?p=1073
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