Meeting on UK Public Sector Information Re-use Request Service
On Saturday I attended a ‘BarCamp’ on the Power of Information Review Recommendation 8 – which suggests there should be a re-use request service for UK Public Sector Information (we…
Response to ‘The Future of Bibliographic Control’ draft from the Library of Congress
A couple of weeks back we blogged about the ‘Future of Bibliographic Control’ draft report from a working group at the Library of Congress. Since then, we’ve submitted to the…
Good news for open data: Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data, Open Data Commons PDDL and CCZero
Last night Science Commons announced the release of the Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data: The Protocol is a method for ensuring that scientific databases can be legally integrated with…
On data transport through payment networks
I recently ran across the Cruickshank Report, a review written in 2000 of the state of payment information systems in the UK, and enjoyed what it had to say about…
‘The Future of Bibliographic Control’ and Licensing Policies for Bibliographic Data
Last week the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control at the Library of Congress released their Draft Report. They are soliciting for public comment until the 15th December,…
Big Art Mob, public art and open heritage resources
I’ve just been poking around at the Big Art Mob website which was launched by Channel 4 earlier this year and picked up a Royal Television Society Innovation Award earlier…
Keeping “Open” Libre
Last week I attended the Jornadas gvSIG, the developer/user gathering for the open source GIS project supported by the regional government in Valencia. There seems to be a very supportive…
Public Domain Calculators
As followers of the mailing list will know we are now planning to join forces with Creative Commons on the Internet Archive’s Open Library project. Our first step is to…
Eduserv study on open content licensing in cultural heritage sector published
Just a quick note to say that the study of usage of and attitudes towards open content licenses in cultural heritage organisations (which we blogged back in August) has now…
Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2007 – ‘Digital Horizons’
A few weeks ago, Rufus and I attended the annual Gerald Aylmer Seminar, jointly organised by the National Archives and the Royal Historical Society. The topic for the event was…