Category Archives: Open Source

The Common Information Environment and Creative Commons

Posted on 2007-08-05 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen on the Creative Commons blog: A study titled “The Common Information Environment and Creative Commons” was funded by Becta, the British Library, DfES, JISC and the MLA on behalf of the Common Information Environment. The work was carried out … Continue reading →

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“Two thousand years of mankind and medicine” (in open access images)

Posted on 2007-08-04 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen at BoingBoing.) The Wellcome Trust have released thousands of images relating to the history of medicine online for free under a Creative Commons (non-commercial) license. This is a very nice collection, and the classical material includes everything from a … Continue reading →

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AWMC/Pleiades bibliographic records

Posted on 2007-08-03 by scaife

Staff and affiliates of the Ancient World Mapping Center and its Pleiades Project have released draft set of bibliographic records. The information in it was compiled initially from citation handlists and other unpublished working papers of the Classical Atlas Project … Continue reading →

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ccLearn: Creative Commons education division

Posted on 2007-07-28 by Gabriel Bodard

An interesting development for teaching materials and collaboration protocols: Creative Commons is pleased to announce the launch of a new division focused on education: ccLearn. ccLearn is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning … Continue reading →

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Chiron pool at Flickr

Posted on 2007-06-27 by scaife

Alun Salt notes Recently the 5000th photo was uploaded to the Chiron pool at Flickr. That’s over 5000 photos connected to antiquity which you can pick up and use in presentations or blogs for free. It’s due in no small … Continue reading →

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OA in Classics…

Posted on 2007-06-04 by scaife

Josiah Ober, Walter Scheidel, Brent D. Shaw and Donna Sanclemente, “Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics” in Hesperia, Volume: 76, Issue: 1. Cover date: Jan-Mar 2007

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Collaborative article against perpetual copyright

Posted on 2007-06-03 by Gabriel Bodard

Back in the middle of May, Lawrence Lessig posted a note on his blog pointing to a particularly idiotic op-ed in the NY Times that argued for perpetual copyright. He invited readers to write a response, on his Wiki. 25000 … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons and research

Posted on 2007-05-08 by Gabriel Bodard

A post on the Creative Commons blog draws together four articles on the value of Creative Commons licensing for newspapers, scientists, film students, and Wikipedia “SEOers” respectively. All are worth reading, but it is the article on scientists that is … Continue reading →

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Junicode update released

Posted on 2007-05-02 by Gabriel Bodard

Keeping with the Unicode/font theme, here is the announcement of the latest release of the useful Junicode font package. Although it focuses on Medieval characters (Correction: and *does* now cover polytonic Greek) is has very good coverage of Latin, symbols, … Continue reading →

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Open Source OCR

Posted on 2007-04-11 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot and Google Code updates: Google has just announced work on OCRopus, which it says it hopes will ‘advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies.’ OCRopus will be available under the Apache … Continue reading →

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ImaNote – Image and Map Annotation Notebook

Posted on 2007-04-04 by smahony

This looks a useful tool. Anyone tried it? Claims to allow annotation and links to be added to images with RSS to keep track of everything. Following text copied from Humanist: We are really happy to announce the release of … Continue reading →

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Why Blogs should use Creative Commons

Posted on 2007-03-29 by Gabriel Bodard

An interesting discussion on the iCommons blog. Excerpt: If your intention, as a blogger, is to have your content and your thoughts distributed as widely as possible, then reserving all your rights to your content is counterproductive. A more effective … Continue reading →

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Your data is the next big battle

Posted on 2007-03-28 by Tom Elliott

The trendspotters are saying (rhetorically) “Open Source is dead” and “Open data matters more than Open Source.” What’s clearly meant is: “open data formats matter more …” Open access — over which critical battles important to readers of this blog … Continue reading →

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Join the Wikipedia Debate

Posted on 2007-03-28 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen at Academic Commons: This coming Thursday (29 March 2007), the first Language Lab Unleashed! of the spring will feature Don Wyatt (chair of the Department of History at Middlebury College), Elizabeth Colantoni (Professor of Classics at Oberlin College), Laura … Continue reading →

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Citizendium debuts

Posted on 2007-03-27 by scaife

from the CHE: Citizendium Starts With a Little Knowledge Citizendium, the peer-reviewed “progressive fork” of Wikipedia (The Chronicle, October 18, 2006), has opened for business. The site unveiled its public face on Sunday and as of this afternoon boasts more … Continue reading →

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