Category Archives: Open Source

Rollyo

Posted on 2005-10-11 by scaife

Folks who recall the now-defunct Argos LASE (limited area search engine) may be interested in Klaus Graf‘s experiments with Rollyo, a site that lets you limit search results to certain sources. Klaus has now created a neo-Latin Rollyo, and an … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons: problems with -NC licenses

Posted on 2005-10-05 by scaife

Erik Möller, “Are Creative Commons-NC Licenses Harmful?” Podcasting News, October 4, 2005. Excerpt (via Peter Suber): When the Creative Commons project published its first licenses in December 2002, it finally brought a sense of unity behind the free content movement….One … Continue reading →

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Digital Watch

Posted on 2005-10-03 by scaife

via Open Access News: Digital Watch is an Open Access online academic journal, which has been created by graduate students in the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences to offer a forum for the discussion of issues relating to … Continue reading →

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The Open Content Alliance

Posted on 2005-10-03 by chuckjones

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the … Continue reading →

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Copyfraud

Posted on 2005-09-28 by scaife

Jason Mazzone, “Copyfraud,” Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 40, August 21, 2005. (Via Peter Suber and Klaus Graf.) Abstract: Copyright in a work now lasts for seventy years after the death of the author. Critics contend that this … Continue reading →

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Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity Creative Commons License

Posted on 2005-09-28 by Gabriel Bodard

A clarification of the CC license terms from the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias: ALA 2004 Copyright clarification The Creative Commons license information applies specifically to the narrative materials of this website: the introduction, commentary, appendices and indices. The photographs and plans … Continue reading →

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deep access to digitised cultural heritage material

Posted on 2005-09-26 by scaife

Repeated here from the Humanist list by permission of the poster, Mats Dahlström (and note that the Classical Text Services protocol being developed principally by Neel Smith and Christopher Blackwell under the aegis of the Center for Hellenic Studies addresses … Continue reading →

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“serious and irreversible damage”?

Posted on 2005-09-26 by chuckjones

In “Journal publishing and author self-archiving: Peaceful Co-Existence and Fruitful Collaboration” an interesting group of scholars responds to a public letter from the ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) which strongly condemned the RCUK’s (Research Councils UK) proposed … Continue reading →

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Three Projects Worthy of Careful Review

Posted on 2005-09-23 by chuckjones

The Alexandria Archive Institute works to build an open, Internet-based, knowledge commons of world cultural heritage. “Dedicated organizations, such as the AAI, are needed to continuously keep pace with developments in scholarship, build and maintain collaborations, and provide needed guidance … Continue reading →

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Debut of Copyright, a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal

Posted on 2005-09-08 by scaife

Copyright, a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal led by a renowned editorial team, seeks papers on all aspects of copyright in the Internet age. The journal features a rapid review and publication time while maintaining rigorous standards regarding the quality of … Continue reading →

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Comparisons

Posted on 2005-08-30 by scaife

John Langford and Martin Pool have a worthwhile post on the Machine Learning (Theory) blog on “(Dis)similarities between academia and open source programmers.” (Hat tip Peter Suber.)

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Academic Commons

Posted on 2005-08-18 by juangarces

The Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College has launched Academic Commons, “a forum for investigating and defining the role that technology can play in liberal arts education”. The site offers essays, reviews, and interviews, as well … Continue reading →

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