Sponsorised links
This year
toronto.ca | Open
The City of Toronto (City) now grants you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, modify, and distribute the datasets in all current and future media and formats for any lawful purpose. more
Zoybar
is collaboration. Different styles, cultures, eras, technologies, views, knowledge, sources and any form of creation are relevant. All mixed together with one thing in common - self expression. Zoybar is a new form of expression, starting a new era of hardware music instruments evolution.
Every user can create his own unique instrument by its own voice and needs.
Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship | Berkman Center
Objective: The undersigned believe that it will benefit legal education and improve the dissemination of legal scholarly information if law schools commit to making the legal scholarship they publish available in stable, open, digital formats in place of print. To accomplish this end, law schools should commit to making agreed-upon stable, open, digital formats, rather than print, the preferable formats for legal scholarship. If stable, open, digital formats are available, law schools should stop publishing law journals in print and law libraries should stop acquiring print law journals. We believe that, in addition to their other benefits, these changes are particularly timely in light of the financial challenges currently facing many law schools.
Sponsorised links
2008
autonomo.us · Social Networking
some of the more promising Free Software packages that provide social networking services.
Blogger Buzz: Your blog, your data
This is good.The import/export feature opens up a whole new range of portability for your blogs, as well as allows for a few new options in the blog creation process.
scrying:workshop [scrying]
Across three days, the scrying workshop will explore and construct city-wide EM phenomena within the data space domain, examining techniques of digital forensics, of signal archaeology overlapping with contemporary artistic concerns. The scrying platform, an open hardware project concerned with the design and implementation of low power (enabling long-term, solar-powered urban installation) devices interfacing code and EM practice, will be used during the workshop.
Open Library API (OpenLibrary)
The Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive. Its goal is to create an online catalog that contains one web page for every book ever published. To do this, it accepts data from a variety of sources: libraries, publishers, book-sellers, and individuals.
About Us (OpenLibrary)
One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty, but achievable, goal.
OCLC and the Great Library Scandal | booktwo.org
Plutôt que de se battre sur le code source libre, les données *publiques* livres placées dans des silos, c'est plus dommageable.Why are our publicly funded libraries locked into a monopolistic relationship with a clearly greedy data supplier? Why are they paying thousands of pounds to access their own data? Why are the public, whose money is paying for this, locked out of the system?
Vos données sont bien plus importantes que vos outils , sur BioloGeek, l'avis d'un freelance passionné par le web et son évolution.
Firefox pour accéder à des silos 2.0 fermés et propriétaires est un échec.
The BBC can be an open source for all of UK plc | Media | The Guardian
The future for the BBC lies in the technology that can open it up to the world, just as technology gave it life last century. In the corporate world, Facebook, Apple and Google have launched platform services that allow external developers and companies to build services using their code - but the BBC is uniquely placed to use those same principles to create a cultural and commercial resource for the nation.
Open Objects: Open data, the BBC, and 'the virality and interconnectedness of the web'
'The BBC can be an open source for all of UK plc', there's a particular focus on possible commercial applications or start-ups building services around BBC content or code
random($foo): A Story In Three Frames (One of These Is Not Like The Others)
It's unclear to me why everyone isn't using OSM tiles at least for where they have no data.
David Baron's weblog: The age of bugs
Hey David, We have exactly the same critics at W3C. When a spec takes a lot of time, or things are not solved right away. We have tons of reproaches, because the information is accessible.Lately, I've seen some people criticize Mozilla because a particular bug (often a request for a new feature) that they care a lot about hasn't been fixed, on the basis that the bug was filed some number of years ago (generally more than five). I think this line of criticism is undeserved and seriously misguided. People who make this argument are, effectively, criticizing us for our openness.
2007
ongoing · Message From the Web
Try to lock them in and they’ll walk away · Put it another way: make it easy to walk away, and they’ll come back. ¶
Tech Report: SRC-TN-2001-002: Why Digital Rights Management
Why Digital Rights Management is Wrong
Linking open data: interlinking the BBC John Peel sessions and the DBPedia datasets - DBTune blog
Des solutions pour rendre tout cela plus facile ?And my conclusion is... it is not that easy :-)
The Linking Open Data dataset cloud
This image shows some of the datasets published in the Linking Open Data community project.
DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards
Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distributed File System for data.
2006
Civic Access - Accès Civique
Free the Maps
