Category Archives: Open Source

Whose side are they on, anyway?

Posted on 2006-09-11 by scaife

Timidity and obsequiousness watch; or, Peter Suber nails it: Universities take industry word for copyright law By Peter Suber Cory Doctorow, USC Copyright rules are flawed, Daily Trojan, September 11, 2006. Excerpt: As students were returning to the USC campus … Continue reading →

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Google Book Search grants some PDF downloads

Posted on 2006-08-30 by scaife

from ars technica: Google went ahead and did it. Books no longer in copyright are now available for download from the Google Book Search site. If you’re looking for something tasty, might we recommend an early English translation of Montaigne’s … Continue reading →

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DAI Archaeological Bibliography goes OA

Posted on 2006-08-03 by scaife

Sayonara, Dyabola: We would like to inform you that the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) compiles the four most important Bibliographies on archaeology: Archaeological Bibliography (Realkatalog) Bibliography of the Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula Subject catalogue of the Roman-German Commission Bibliography … Continue reading →

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Surprising History of Copyright

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Tom Elliott

This Thursday, 27 July 2006, Karl Fogel (of Google) is scheduled to chair a session at OSCON entitled: The (Surprising) History of Copyright, and What It Means for Open Source. You can view the abstract online, whence the following: Much … Continue reading →

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Open Access on the ANE-2 List

Posted on 2006-07-17 by Tom Elliott

A subscriber to the ANE-2 List has reposted there, with permission, an e-circular attributed to the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation [MSSRF] (Chennai, India) which calls for the: [proactive promotion] of ‘open access’ to scientific and scholarly literature so even … Continue reading →

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Can History Be Open Source?

Posted on 2006-07-13 by Tom Elliott

The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has recently posted to the web a long and thoughtful article by Roy Rosenzweig entitled “Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past.” It was … Continue reading →

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Fair Use Day

Posted on 2006-07-12 by scaife

So, only 364 days left until the next Fair Use Day! (Thanks for the tip, Tom.)

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Microsoft bends on OpenDocument

Posted on 2006-07-06 by scaife

(hat tip Peter Suber) Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open-source project to create software that will convert Office documents to OpenDocument, a rival format gaining ground, particularly among governments. The software giant on Thursday launched the Open XML … Continue reading →

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Open Context: Sharing Archaeological Data Digitally

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

from About Archaeology: A new tool in the open source arsenal announced its beta launch last week. Called Open Context, the project involves scientists from Cambridge University (UK), Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, U.C. Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, … Continue reading →

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Jill Coffin: Analysis of open source principles in diverse collaborative communities

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

From Infobits: The June 2006 issue of FIRST MONDAY features selected papers from “FM10 Openness: Code, Science, and Content,” a conference held in May and sponsored by First Monday journal, the University of Illinois at Chicago University Library, and the … Continue reading →

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New book on OA

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

from the mailbox: A new book, documenting the major strands and issues of open access, will be published 17th July. Jacobs, N., Eds. (2006) Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects. Chandos It covers the rationale, history, economics, technology … Continue reading →

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A new Blog: Digging Digitally

Posted on 2006-05-31 by chuckjones

Eric Kansa of The Alexandria Archive Initiative, has initiated a new blog Digging Digitally: Archaeology, data sharing, digitally enabled research and education on behelf of the Digital Data Interest Group of the SAA. “DDIG members can use this blog to … Continue reading →

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FRPAA 2006

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

From Current Cites: Sternstein, Aliya. “Bill Demands Free Public Access to Science Reports” Federal Computer Week 20(15)(15 May 2006): 56. – It only makes sense, right? Taxpayers should have free access to the science research that they’ve paid for. Well, … Continue reading →

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Arxiv includes some research on matters related to the ancient world

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

Alun Salt at blogographos notes the presence of certain academic papers on classics-related topics in the physicists’ OA repository.

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Baidu Baike

Posted on 2006-05-19 by scaife

from a CHE piece on a rip-off of Wikipedia in China: It’s worth noting that China’s censorship policies make it virtually impossible for a true open-source encyclopedia to exist.

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