Open Pinter

Guess there won't be such a thing for 70 years huh? 

J.

PS Anybody know somewhere you read his texts online?

Call for Papers: Mashing-up Culture - The Rise of User-generated Content

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén of the University of Uppsala asked me to forward
this to the list.

Please note the deadline is on 7th January 2009 - i.e. this Wednesday!

Warm regards,

Jonathan

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Mashing-up Culture: The Rise of User-generated Content
13th-14th May, 2009
Uppsala University, Sweden

Sampling and remixing, mash-ups and appropriation, wikis and podcasts
are part of the digital creative milieu of the twenty-first century.
Sites such as YouTube, Flickr and deviantART have offered new outlets
for creativity and become hubs for innovative forms of collaboration
thus playing their part in challenging modernist notions of what it
means to be a creator as well as a consumer. User-generated content
has draw upon the reuse of existing texts as well as new creations,
bringing forward possibilities for new audiences and meanings while
also raising questions about how digital texts are controlled through
copyright and how intellectual property is managed.

Drawing on this background, papers are invited for the two-day
workshop - Mashing-up Culture: The Rise of User-generated Content -
which will take place at Uppsala University, Sweden on May 13th-14th,
2009. The event will be the first organised by the European research

New Data Management and Sharing Guidance

This is interesting news:

  http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/newsdetail.asp?id=2155
  http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/sharing

Unfortunately I can't see any reference to legal tools for sharing data.

Jonathan

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The UK Data Archive (UKDA) would like to announce the release of its
new suite of web pages providing guidance on data management and
sharing. The pages aim to provide data creators, data managers and
data curators with best practice strategies and methods for creating,
preparing and storing shareable datasets. images from manage and share
data

Advice has been divided into a number of key areas or modules
providing detailed information on each topic. These are:

    * Sharing data - why and how?
    * Consent, confidentiality and ethics
    * Copyright
    * Data documentation and metadata
    * Data formats and software
    * Data storage, back-up, and security

In addition to these web pages, bespoke advice and training are
provided by UKDA staff throughout the life span of a research project

Planning for OKCon 2009

We've started a wiki page for planning OKCon 2009, which will take
place on 28th March 2009 at London School of Economics:

  http://okfn.org/wiki/okcon/2009

If you'd like to give a talk or presentation, please feel free to add
this to the wiki page.

At the moment I'm planning a session on 'open knowledge for development'.

Is there any other particular session, topic or theme that others
would like to see?

In the past we've had a theme for each OKCon. Last year it was
"Applications and Services". Are there any suggestions for 2009? I am
inclined to suggest that perhaps we don't need a theme...

Any thoughts?

Jonathan

Making a technology public domain (copyleft for science and products)?

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Re: LCSH site is taken down

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock@...> wrote:
> I hadn't seen this -- really interesting. Would be nice if it were
> clearer why it had been taken down: is it IPR issues or just the fact
> that the LoC saw it as competition for their own free services?

Not sure - it would be interesting to find out!

[snip]
> The University of Huddersfield releasing a huge bunch of book usage
> data under the Open Data Commons/CCZero licence just over a week ago!
> (This was on Open Access News but I somehow missed it). We should
> definitely blog this I think.

Just blogged this:

  http://blog.okfn.org/2009/01/05/more-library-related-open-data/

[snip]
> These are two more items that should be in CKAN

Done:

  http://ckan.net/package/read/iconclass
  http://ckan.net/package/read/hud-library-usagedata

> (and people we should
> contact about the open data buttons -- and in the 2nd case putting a
> proper licence on).

Done. Will let you all know what I hear! 

Jonathan

Re: Data for a graph on Earth

http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/mix/USAir97.net

Gives the network of airports in the USA (i.e. flight connections plus
distances). However, (rather unfortunately) it is licensed under a CC
by-sa-nc which may be a problem for you (might be worth writing to
Batagelj asking why they are using NC restriction (plus applying (c)
license to data ...).

Also you may be after long/lats of airports not their connections in
which case the best I know of is:

http://www.airnav.com/airport/

But this is definitely *not* open and you'll need to write a scraper.

Regards,

Rufus

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Gael Varoquaux
<gael.varoquaux <at> normalesup.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Still doing examples for Mayavi... This time I would like to appeal to
> humanities/social sciences. I know graphs are important to these people
> (we keep getting questions on the mailing list on how to build graphs),
> so I was thinking of displaying a small graph on the surface of planet
> Earth. For instance airline connections. The reason being that this is
> some data that is not too abstract, and can talk to non-specialists.
>
> Does anybody has an idea of a dataset that I could use for this purpose?
> I had a quick look on CKAN, but to no avail. I don't need much data: the
> graph can be very simple.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gaël
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Re: LCSH site is taken down

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@...> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock@...> wrote:
>> I hadn't seen this -- really interesting. Would be nice if it were
>> clearer why it had been taken down: is it IPR issues or just the fact
>> that the LoC saw it as competition for their own free services?

/me delurks

It was actually a mixture of the two. The latter was the initial
impetus for shutting it down, since there are folks at loc.gov who
would like to host the service (or something like it).  At first I was
just going to let it keep running until said service was live and
redirect, since lcsh.info was registered by me, and ran on a physical
machine I owned. But others at LC had questions about the IPR issues
(is it public domain? what does this mean? etc) ... and I was
encouraged by them to shut it down for that reason as well. That's
when I caved.

While lcsh.info was running I got several questions about what sort of
license there was on the data, and I always just shrugged and mumbled
something about how everything the Library of Congress does is in the
public domain. One nice thing about turning lcsh.info and doing the
same sort of thing at loc.gov is that it'll result in getting these
IPR issues ironed out. If you've got ideas about what the IPR should
be definitely let me know.

//Ed

Fwd: JISC Conference 2009 - Registration Open!

Registration is now open for the annual JISC conference:

  http://www.jisc.ac.uk/jiscconference09

J.

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This event will be of interest to all those involved in planning for
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Fwd: ICONCLASS data?

I just heard from Etienne Posthumus of ICONCLASS - he gave me
permission to reproduce his response on this list.

Hopefully the next release will be dedicated to the public domain!

Jonathan

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Hi Jonathan

Glad you like it. ICONCLASS has been around for more than 30 years, so
it has been worked on by a  LOT of people over the years. Initially in
the print version it spanned many bookshelves, then it was
computerised in the late eighties, improved and translated into many
languages in the nineties, and since the late nineties I have been
working on several versions and applications of it in a few projects.

The version on iconclass.info was a bit of a hurried hack cobbled
together late last month when Ed Summers had to close down the
lcsh.info. I had been planning on doing something similar but was
forced to hurry up a bit with the idea of 'getting it out there' while
topical.

I need to clarify with the current official stewards of ICONCLASS -
the RKD (http://www.rkd.nl) which license they would prefer. My
understanding is that it will probably be something like Public Domain
or Copyleft- this is what we have been advising them to use. In the
first quarter of 2009 I will be developing a back-end management
module for the RKD, and one of the parts thereof will be the RDF
export option. Having an explicit (and open!) license will definitely
be displayed.

Thanks so much for the tips on the The Public Domain Dedication and
License and buttons, I will be passing on the info to the RKD
management and recommend that it be used. Myself and colleague Hans
Brandhorst act as the ICONCLASS external experts for the RKD.

Kind regards,

Etienne Posthumus

PS, while not open data if you are interested metadata and images in
general, http://www.arkyves.org/ might be interesting too. (This is a
practical application of the ICONCLASS system)