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Jonathan Gray | 2 Mar 18:51

Fwd: FW: Free Sustainability Case Studies Workshop - Limited places available...

This may of be interest to some of you! (From Stuart Dempster of JISC
Strategic Content Alliance.)

J.

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Hi Jonathan,

 I think that this workshop maybe of interest to your folks too – so
please feel free to forward on to any lists you see fit.

With thanks,

Stuart

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From: Stuart Dempster [mailto:s.dempster@...]
Sent: 02 March 2009 16:45
To: 'DIGI2@...'; 'SCA-Wales'; 'SCA-Northern Ireland';
'Strategic Content Alliance Home Nations Scotland list';
'SCANEWSLETTER@...'; 'JISC-SCA@...'
Subject: Free Sustainability Case Studies Workshop - Limited places available...
Importance: High

*********Apologies fro cross posting***********


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Jonathan Gray | 2 Mar 19:26

Re: Next meeting of Open Textbook Groups - April or May?

Hi Judy,

Many thanks for this. Its sounds like an interesting event - and the
OKF would love to be an official 'partner'/co-organiser. I don't think
we'd be able to come in person - but could participate in a virtual
event.

Re: virtual attendees, I suspect IRC channel might be easier, as it
has 'one click' access (via web browser), whereas I assume CCC Confer
requires registration/login? What do you think?

Personally I'd prefer later in the year - i.e. May rather than April -
as I've got a lot going on in the next few months. What does anyone
else think?

Warm regards,

Jonathan

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Judy Baker <bakerjudy@...> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan:
>
> We want to co-host the Open Textbook meet-up event (focus on metatagging,
> interoperability and repositories) as both virtual and face-to-face.  We
> can cover some travel expenses for attendees in the U.S.
>
> We can use Elluminate (teleconference/whiteboard via CCC Confer) for the
> virtual attendees.  For info about CCC Confer, see
> http://www.cccconfer.org/index3.aspx  Just let me know which would be best
> for most attendees:  Elluminate or OKF IRC channel.
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Jonathan Gray | 2 Mar 19:59

Fwd: Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan

Thought this might be of interest here!

J.

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From: Glyn Wintle <glynwintle@...>
Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Subject: [ORG-discuss] Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use:
Government Action Plan
To: Open Rights Group open discussion list
<org-discuss@...>

This open source strategy sets out the
steps we need to take across Government, and with our IT suppliers, to
take advantage of the benefits of open source. They need feed back:

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/government_it/open_source.aspx
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/123372/090224opensource.pdf

Open Source has been one of the most significant cultural developments
in IT and beyond over the last two decades: it has shown that
individuals, working together over the Internet, can create products
that rival and sometimes beat those of giant corporations; it has
shown how giant corporations themselves, and Governments, can become
more innovative, more agile and more cost-effective by building on the
fruits of community work; and from its IT base the Open Source
movement has given leadership to new thinking about intellectual
property rights and the availability of information for re–use by
others.
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David Joyner | 2 Mar 20:10
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Re: Next meeting of Open Textbook Groups - April or May?

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@...> wrote:
> Hi Judy,
>

....

>
> Re: virtual attendees, I suspect IRC channel might be easier, as it
> has 'one click' access (via web browser), whereas I assume CCC Confer
> requires registration/login? What do you think?
>
> Personally I'd prefer later in the year - i.e. May rather than April -
> as I've got a lot going on in the next few months. What does anyone
> else think?

May is better for me too but here finals are in early May - a very
hectic time - and
I'm going to a conference in Washington state around the May 16-21 range.

>
> Warm regards,
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Judy Baker <bakerjudy@...> wrote:
>> Hi Jonathan:
>>
>> We want to co-host the Open Textbook meet-up event (focus on metatagging,
>> interoperability and repositories) as both virtual and face-to-face.  We
>> can cover some travel expenses for attendees in the U.S.
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Jonathan Gray | 3 Mar 16:53

Re: Next meeting of Open Textbook Groups - April or May?

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:10 PM, David Joyner <wdjoyner@...> wrote:
>> Personally I'd prefer later in the year - i.e. May rather than April -
>> as I've got a lot going on in the next few months. What does anyone
>> else think?
>
> May is better for me too but here finals are in early May - a very
> hectic time - and
> I'm going to a conference in Washington state around the May 16-21 range.

So perhaps we could shoot for right towards the end of May?

--

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org
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Jonathan Gray | 3 Mar 17:03

Fwd: CODATA Press Release: The Polar Information Commons (PIC): Establishing the Framework for Long-term Stewardship of Polar Data and Information

This looks interesting!

J.

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News from the CODATA_International eList follows from here:
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PRESS RELEASE

Monday 23 Feb 2009

The Polar Information Commons (PIC): Establishing the Framework for
Long-term Stewardship of Polar Data and Information

"Data are the common wealth of humanity"

Adama Samassekou

Convener of the UN World Summit on the Information Society

The International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY) has been a huge,
scientific success, resulting in new insights in how the polar regions
work. Now that the IPY officially draws to a close, it is critical to
ensure that the data generated by IPY projects are accessible and
preserved for future generations to benefit from.

CODATA, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology, is starting
a new initiative to establish a Polar Information Commons (PIC), to
further the process of ensuring long-term stewardship of and access to
polar data and information coming out of the IPY.
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Jonathan Gray | 3 Mar 17:30

Fwd: [openaccess] Open BioSciences information

It would be great to make sure these are on CKAN!

J.

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Friends:
Here is a short list of quality resources for developing countries
(both open access and toll access). Surprisingly the more than 80
MedKnow journals are not included in this list. The author/owner of
this list may get in touch with Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow Publications or
visit <www.medknow.com>.
Subbiah Arunachalam

http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/fr_diglib/pubHelp.html

Publishers' Resources For Developing Countries

ACU (Association of Commonwealth Universities) Low Cost Journals
Scheme - This program for developing countries in the British
Commonwealth provides access to high-quality journals at low cost.

Bioline International - Bioline International is an open access
resource of high-quality research journals published in developing
countries. Its coverage includes a wide range of subjects including
biosciences and health improvement, biotechnology, biodiversity,
veterinary science, medicine, microbiology, tropical medicine, and
epidemiology.

British Medical Journal (BMJ) - Over 113 low income and low-middle
income countries are entitled to free access to BMJ sites. The list of
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Lukasz Szybalski | 4 Mar 06:40
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Datahub and CKAN?

Hello,
As some of you might know I run a project called datahub.

"Datahub is a tool that allows faster download/crawl, parse, load, and
visualize of data. It achieves this by allowing you to divide each
step into its own work folders. In each work folder you get a sample
files that you can start coding."

http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/DataHub

There were some discussion in collaboration of ckan and datahub. The
main goal as I see datahub right now is to create tools for getting,
parsing, manipulating and possibly visualizing data.  If every project
that is listed here: http://www.ckan.net/package/list had a
corresponding package that I could download, run some command which
would get the data, run another command to parse and load the data,
then data mining would allow us to do so much more without the
overhead of getting,parsing and loading the data.

I'll would like to hear some ideas from you guys on datahub and ckan.

Let me know.

Thanks,
Lucas
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Jonathan Gray | 4 Mar 18:38

Fwd: Press Release: 150 years of polar expedition photos available online

Large collection of images from the Scott Polar Research Institute,
published under "Open Education User Licence version 1.0":

  http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/information/rights

Lots of interesting photos!

Unfortunately this isn't open, as it doesn't allow commercial re-use
without permission. Does anyone know about how/when the license was
drafted - and whether there is/was any opportunity to give feedback?

J.

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Press Release
Today, 4th March 2009, sees more than 20,000 photos from 150 years of polar
expeditions available online. These images have been made accessible by the
Scott Polar Research Institute, thanks to a digitisation programme funded by
JISC.

As part of the preservation programme, negatives, daguerreotypes and lantern
slides, which form part of a rich but fragile archive held by the Scott
Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, are now available
to scientists, researchers, scholars and members of the public.

As well as being able to view a range of images, including Herbert Ponting’s
glass plate negatives from the 1910-13 British Antarctic Expedition, that
are so fragile  they will never be on public display, visitors to the
website will also be able to read extracts from diaries, expedition reports,
letters and other personal papers of expedition members.
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Mike Linksvayer | 4 Mar 18:55
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Re: Fwd: Press Release: 150 years of polar expedition photos available online

At least it is clearly not intended for use by others. Sec 4.3 is
pretty darn specific:

4.3 To obtain a licence for Commercial Use, please contact the Picture
Library Manager, Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road,
Cambridge, CB2 1ER; email: picture.library <at> spri.cam.ac.uk.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray <at> okfn.org> wrote:
> Large collection of images from the Scott Polar Research Institute,
> published under "Open Education User Licence version 1.0":
>
>  http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/information/rights
>
> Lots of interesting photos!
>
> Unfortunately this isn't open, as it doesn't allow commercial re-use
> without permission. Does anyone know about how/when the license was
> drafted - and whether there is/was any opportunity to give feedback?
>
> J.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Press Release
> Today, 4th March 2009, sees more than 20,000 photos from 150 years of polar
> expeditions available online. These images have been made accessible by the
> Scott Polar Research Institute, thanks to a digitisation programme funded by
> JISC.
>
> As part of the preservation programme, negatives, daguerreotypes and lantern
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