Category Archives: Open Source

New Mellon prizes

Posted on 2006-05-17 by scaife

from the CHE: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration, a new contest that will recognize leaders in the field of open-source software. The awards will recognize nonprofit groups that have … Continue reading →

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A new translation of Euripides’ Medea, bearing a CC license

Posted on 2006-05-16 by scaife

Celia Luschnig has produced a new translation of the Medea as part of the Diotima anthology. Special thanks to John T Quinn, Translation Editor for Diotima, for his help. (There’s also a pretty-print PDF version.) This work bears a Creative … Continue reading →

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Speakers at Convocation on Humanities Warn About Privatization of Materials (CHE)

Posted on 2006-05-15 by scaife

(An excerpt from an article by Richard Byrne in the CHE — subscription needed) A joint convocation held by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Association of American Universities to assess the state of the humanities drew over … Continue reading →

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Copyright term and the public domain

Posted on 2006-05-15 by scaife

A handy chart I had not yet seen, from the Cornell Copyright Information Center. Footnote 7 is useful: A 1961 Copyright Office study found that fewer than 15% of all registered copyrights were renewed. For books, the figure was even … Continue reading →

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Scan this Book!

Posted on 2006-05-15 by scaife

Kevin Kelly, Scan This Book! New York Times, May 14, 2006: For 2,000 years, the universal library, together with other perennial longings like invisibility cloaks, antigravity shoes and paperless offices, has been a mythical dream that kept receding further into … Continue reading →

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Lessig speech: Who Owns Culture?

Posted on 2006-05-05 by scaife

from the CHE: Who Owns Culture? Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford University law professor and cyberspace theorist, is well-known for challenging traditional notions of copyright. A 20-minute video of a recent speech given by Mr. Lessig is making the rounds on … Continue reading →

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OpenDocument Format accepted as ISO standard

Posted on 2006-05-04 by scaife

from Peter Suber: The OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) has been approved as ISO/IEC 26300. ODF is an XML-based, Open Source file specification for the storage of files produced by office productivity applications (word processor documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, etc.). ODF … Continue reading →

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EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML

Posted on 2006-04-24 by scaife

There’s a new home on SourceForge for Epidoc, and the Epidoc guidelines themselves are available here on the Stoa server. Principles: Five important principles have governed the elaboration of EpiDoc techniques and tools from the beginning: EpiDoc and its tools … Continue reading →

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The very last thing we need?

Posted on 2006-04-24 by scaife

Lovely.

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Creative Commons in Second Life

Posted on 2006-04-19 by Gabriel Bodard

As seen in the CC-blog: Mia Garlick, Creative Commons’ General Counsel, goes in-world in Second Life to discuss copyright issues and the “Some Rights Reserved” licensing perspective this Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 6 PM PST. The event takes place … Continue reading →

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Pre-1975 European scholarship = fair game?

Posted on 2006-04-17 by scaife

The 1993 EU Copyright law is here. Article 5 appears to be crucial: Critical and scientific publications Member States may protect critical and scientific publications of works which have come into the public domain. The maximum term of protection of … Continue reading →

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The Wealth of Networks

Posted on 2006-04-15 by scaife

Lawrence Lessig: You are not serious about these issues — on either side of these debates — unless you have read this book.

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The Access Principle

Posted on 2006-04-14 by scaife

from the BOAI list: John Willinsky’s (2005) excellent book on Open Access is now available Open Access: Willinsky, J. (2005) The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship MIT Press

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JIIA Eprints Repository

Posted on 2006-04-05 by scaife

Antonella D’Ascoli informa  dell’attivazione del JIIA Eprints Repository http://eprints.jiia.it/, Repository collegato al ‘Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology’ http://www.jiia.it, in data 2006-04-04 registrato presso le Autorità competenti, quindi presente nei seguenti elenchi: http://www.eprints.org/software/archives/ http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/ Il precedente MyOPIA JIIA Repository (a seguito di … Continue reading →

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They’re getting…

Posted on 2006-04-04 by scaife

… desperate! Ray Cha concludes: In the end, I agree with Ben’s previous post that the Nature article in question has a marginal relevance to the bigger picture. The main point is that Wikipedia works amazingly well and contains articles … Continue reading →

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