Category Archives: Open Source

Wikipedia editing as teaching tool

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

A wonderful suggestion in a comment on Cathy Davidson’s letter (that Tom blogged here a few days ago): Thanks for your great column. I’ve used the “stubs” feature of Wikipedia to generate a list of 120 topics relating to ancient … Continue reading →

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Wikis and Blogs in Education

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Creative Commons Feed: “The wiki is the center of my classroom” That’s a quote from Wikis and Blogs in Education, one of three educational remixes from students of open content pioneer David Wiley. The other two are … Continue reading →

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MIT Faculty and Libraries Refuse DRM

Posted on 2007-03-21 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot, MIT LIbraries: The MIT Libraries have canceled access to the Society of Automotive Engineers’ web-based database of technical papers, rejecting the SAE’s requirement that MIT accept the imposition of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. SAE’s DRM technology … Continue reading →

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Middlebury Wikigate Revisited

Posted on 2007-03-20 by Tom Elliott

Back in January, I made some hooting noises and pointed at Jimmy Wales in the context of the tempest-in-a-teapot that erupted after the Middlebury College History Department added Wikipedia to its list of works students may not cite in papers. … Continue reading →

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Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration

Posted on 2007-03-15 by Tom Elliott

From the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration website (where you’ll find all the details): The Program in Research in Information Technology of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites nominations for the 2007 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC). In support … Continue reading →

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CC Learn

Posted on 2007-03-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Creative Commons blog today: A new division of Creative Commons, provisionally called CC Learn, will focus on education, broadly defined — from kindergarten to graduate school, to lifelong learning. The mission of this new division will be … Continue reading →

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Gentium resurgens: refined Cyrillic, Unicode 5, smart rendering

Posted on 2007-02-19 by Tom Elliott

From Victor Gualtney, on the latest regarding the Gentium font by way of the Gentium-Announce List (links mine): Update #4 – Gentium project revived, Cyrillic, Charis Dear friends of Gentium, No – there’s not a new version out yet. 🙂 … Continue reading →

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PDF Specification released to AIIM/ISO

Posted on 2007-01-31 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen (via Slashdot) in Technoracle: Adobe announced it will release the entire PDF specification (current version 1.7) to the International Standards Organization (ISO) via AIIM. PDF has reached a point in it’s maturity cycle where maintaining it in an open … Continue reading →

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Second Life experient in social copyright

Posted on 2007-01-21 by Gabriel Bodard

I spotted this several weeks ago in Wired magazine, but have only just gotten around to taking it in fully. The scenario: Businesses in Second Life are in an uproar over a rogue [ed. note: modified from Open Source] software … Continue reading →

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Another Reason for Opening Access to Research

Posted on 2007-01-17 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Creative Commons feed, an article in the British Medical Journal by John Wilbanks, executive director of the Science Commons, on why scientific research needs to be Open Access (and his arguments apply to all academic research, of … Continue reading →

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New Journal: Open Access Research

Posted on 2007-01-11 by Tom Elliott

A new journal entitled Open Access Research (OAR) is now accepting submissions and plans its first issue (thereafter, thrice a year) in August 2007. It’s described as “a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that will enable greater interaction and facilitate a deeper … Continue reading →

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Open Course Ware

Posted on 2007-01-11 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot, a comment by Kent Simon: “Many people may not know that MIT has initiated OpenCourseWare, an initiative to share all of their educational resources with the public. This generous act is intended (in classical MIT style) to … Continue reading →

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Second Life to open code

Posted on 2007-01-10 by Gabriel Bodard

I’ve posted here several times about the educational fun to be had with ancient and other reconstructions in Second Life (see e.g. 3D Egyptian Archaeology in Second Life). Now more good news from Linden Labs, which may make SL an … Continue reading →

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Integration Proclamation

Posted on 2007-01-09 by Tom Elliott

Many authors and readers of content on this blog are deeply concerned about issues of ineroperability, data integration (and similar terms) as applied to humanities computing. Greg Crane’s recent response to the draft statement of the joint APA/AIA task force … Continue reading →

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Grassroots book-scanning for uncompromising OA

Posted on 2006-12-23 by scaife

As complaints multiply about quality control in the Google book scanning initiative, this sort of approach begun by Nicholas Hodson looks increasingly promising to me.  (Had to laugh about the blue and the pink coding, though!)

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