gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general

Re: Fwd: Results of the consultation on review ofthe PSI Directive are now available

Rufus Pollock — 2008-12-03T09:24:03

It looks like this is the report on the consultation so I don't think there is a room for any more input (closed in July it seems). While this is, no doubt, important I don't think we're going to do much on it though I'd be interested to hear from anyone on the list who is more knows more about what is going on. I'd imagine you'd find some good information on both this and the review generally on the EPSIPlus website: http://www.epsiplus.net/ Regards, Rufus [snip]

Biblios - “world’s largest database” of open bibliographic data goes beta!

Jonathan Gray — 2008-12-02T18:11:10

Biblios.net, "the world's largest database of freely-licensed library records", is now beta-testing: http://blog.okfn.org/2008/12/02/biblios-worlds-largest-database-of-open-bibliographic-data-goes-beta/ They are using Jordan's Open Data Commons - presumably PDDL? Hopefully they'll make the data available for download in bulk. (Also preferably without a restrictive click-wrap agreement!) Look forward to seeing where this goes. J.

Fwd: [Infovis] Fellowships in data and visualanalytics

Jonathan Gray — 2008-12-02T17:14:55

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Stasko public.gmane.org> Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:22 PM Subject: [Infovis] Fellowships in data and visual analytics To: infovis-cGtkP3J/8UpAfugRpC6u6w< at >public.gmane.org Data Analysis and Visual Analytics Ph.D. Fellowships The Southeast Regional Visual Analytics Center (http://srvac.uncc.edu) - a partnership between Georgia Tech and UNC Charlotte - is accepting applications for four Data Analysis and Visual Analytics PhD Fellowships, two at UNC Charlotte and two at Georgia Tech. Both universities have significant research programs in these areas, in which fellowship holders will be active participants. The Fellowships provide 2.5 academic years of support with a stipend of $2300 per month; payment of tuition and fees; and a $1500 per year for three years travel allowance to attend relevant conferences. After the fellowship period, students will be supported as Graduate Research Assistants while finishing their Ph.D. Fellowship holders will have two summer internships at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory or other laboratories conducting relevant research. They will have the opportunity to spend a semester at their partner school, either UNC Charlotte or Georgia Tech, to be able to take courses not available at their home shcool and to interact with the many faculty and graduate students at their partner school. The fellowships are provided by a grant from the US Department of Homeland Security, and are available to US Citizens. It is hoped, but not required, that upon graduation, fellowship holders will work at a national laboratory or company in the area of homeland security. Applicants must apply for admission to either Georgia Tech or UNC Charlotte *and* separately apply for the Fellowship. For general information on the UNC Charlotte Information Technology Ph.D. program, visit http://www.cci.uncc.edu/coit_new/phd/phd_overview.cfm. To apply for admission, visit http://www.uncc.edu/gradmiss/prospect.html. To be eligible for the Fellowship, applications for fall 2009 admission are due by January 15, 2009. For further information, you may contact Professor William Tolone, wjtolone-q5vfgP/E9DzhvxM+mQhndA< at >public.gmane.org For general information on the Georgia Tech Computer Science or Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. programs, visit http://www.cc.gatech.edu/education. To apply for admission, visit http://www.gradadmiss.gatech.edu/apply/. To be eligible for the Fellowship, applications for fall 2009 admission are due by December 15, 2008. For further information, you may contact Professor John Stasko, stasko-ss4n/k5RZhYaDmYJUNiUZw< at >public.gmane.org If necessary, a short extension to this date is possible. To apply for the fellowship (this is separate from PhD program application and required), email the following information to foley-ss4n/k5RZhaUArH+D2fLrA< at >public.gmane.org with subject line "DHS Fellowship" by January 15, as a single pdf file named "DHS-yourlastname" * A cover letter, with complete contact information and citizenship status, stating to which university you have applied (you may apply to both). * A 3-4 page essay describing your motivation and preparation for pursuing a Ph.D. concerning data analysis and visual analytics. * Any term papers, project reports or other papers related to this research area. _______________________________________________ Infovis mailing list Infovis-cGtkP3J/8UpAfugRpC6u6w< at >public.gmane.org http://cromdi.inscc.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/infovis *** InfoVis Email Digest Moderator: Stefano Foresti - stefano.foresti-wbocuHtxKic< at >public.gmane.org Supporting web site: http://www.infovis.org Posting address: infovis-cGtkP3J/8UpAfugRpC6u6w< at >public.gmane.org List archives are available at http://test.infovis.org/pipermail/infovis/ To SUBSCRIBE: Visit http://test.infovis.org/mailman/listinfo/infovis

OKF is a featured user on Identi.ca

Jonathan Gray — 2008-12-02T17:11:38

We're a featured user on Identi.ca! J. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- You've been chosen as a featured user on Identi.ca: http://identi.ca/featured We feature users who are interesting, well-known, and/or active parts of the community. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at this address. -Evan

Fwd: Results of the consultation on review of thePSI Directive are now available

Jonathan Gray — 2008-12-02T17:09:53

Any thoughts about this? I haven't had a chance to look through it yet... J. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear all, The European Commission has published its report on the recent consultation on the review of the PSI Directive. The deadline for comments, suggestions and replies to the questionnaire closed on 31 July 2008. The purpose of this online consultation on the review of the PSI Directive was to gather information from as many sources as possible, including public sector content holders and commercial and non-commercial re-users (universities, NGOs) on their views on different aspects related to the implementation, impact and scope of the PSI Directive. See the report at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/docs/pdfs/online_consultation/report_psi_online_consultaion_stakeholders.pdf; See the replies (A to Z) at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/online_consultation/review_Direct2008/stakeholders/index_en.htm. Best regards, Carmen Carmen Morlon EU Information Officer EBLIDA PO Box 16359 2500 BJ The Hague The Netherlands Tel.: +31 70 309 05 51 Fax.: +31 70 309 05 58 http://www.eblida.org/ ************************* Lobbying for Libraries *************************

The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

Jonathan Gray — 2008-12-02T17:08:05

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear friends and colleagues, excuse the impersonal announcement, but my new book The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind has just been published. And since Yale University Press agreed to CC license it, you can read it for free or download it at http://thepublicdomain.org (Free books are the perfect holiday gift for a global financial meltdown) Warm regards, Jamie

Re: [ok-ox-discuss] Seminar on Scientific Communities

Jonathan Gray — 2008-11-29T13:30:35

This sounds really interesting! I wish I could make it.. If anyone goes it would be great if they could grab contact details for anyone who's interested in open science, open data in science etc. We're currently assembling a working group on open data in science with Peter Murray-Rust, Cameron Neylon and others. Also would be great to point people to the recent workshop in London, CKAN for open scientific data, the open science list, and of course, for anyone based in Oxford, this list! http://blog.okfn.org/2008/11/12/after-the-workshop-on-open-scientific-resources/ http://ckan.net/tag/read/science http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open-science I'd love to hear how it goes! Jonathan On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Iain Emsley public.gmane.org> wrote:

Seminar on Scientific Communities

Iain Emsley — 2008-11-28T11:32:38

Thought this might be of interest. Tim Clark, Director of Informatics, Mass General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, is presenting a seminar at the Oxford eResearch Centre on 4th December called Data, Community and Discourse: a Framework for Science Web 3.0 . Science Web 3.0 is an emerging system of semantically linked data, integrated with the Social Web, in support of science collaboration and scientific knowledge integration. This powerful environment for capturing, organizing and sharing scientific knowledge is now beginning to be taken up in real projects in the form of Scientific Social Communities. Tim Clark will explore critical elements of a common framework for Web 3.0 in scientific research, including an ontology of scientific discourse tractable to working scientists, ontology-driven text mining, and the development of computing-linked communities of scientists, computing researchers, software engineers, philanthropies and scientific publishers. Link to event: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/events/Data-Community-and-Discourse-a-Framework-for.0 -- Iain Emsley Blog: www.yatterings.com Mobile: 07942 259725

Re: open Milton and Shakespeare XML

Rufus Pollock — 2008-11-26T09:12:10

BTW: as this is getting fairly technical suggest we move the rest of this thread onto okfn-help (which I've cc'd). Comments below. On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Iain Emsley public.gmane.org> wrote: Sounds great Iain. I think XSL is probably the way to go (plus it means we can convert to other formats) I think we will need to do some template customization but it would be nice to keep this to a minimum. Yes let's use Microfacts/Weaving History (which is now very close to being stable/clean enough for public launch). I've started a milton thread here: Your existing effort is great and perhaps we migrate information across. There are still some bugs but it generally works (tm) but let me know if you encounter problems. Rufus

Obama CTO

Jonathan Gray — 2008-11-24T20:43:30

Saw this interesting site on priorities for Obama's CTO: http://www.obamacto.org/ You can vote on these here: http://ideas.obamacto.org/ Including: * Open government data - http://ideas.obamacto.org/pages/general/suggestions/68532 * Require open access for publicly-funded research - http://ideas.obamacto.org/pages/general/suggestions/72264 J.

Re: Fwd: [Autonomo.us] Dmoz

Rufus Pollock — 2008-11-24T18:30:41

My bad, I ended up answering (affirmatively) the question: is this data open? not the question: is this an open software service? If, as it appears, the software is not free/open then of course it is not an Open Software Service as defined by the OSSD (http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd/). More comments below. On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Mike Linksvayer public.gmane.org> wrote: Yes, I saw that but given vagueness of 'commercially reasonable' efforts I figured this didn't buy much more than an exhortation. However, this very vagueness is a problem and one might well consider this an overly onerous condition. I'm therefore uncertain on the 'Open Data' requirement. In this case it is definitely non-OSSD compliant. I also take your point about the data license having problems though as I'm not really clear what clause 4 requires I'm unsure whether it falls outside the definition of open data. One option would be to task them to clarify/remove -- do you think it is worth writing to them on that front (it seems a pretty useful RDF dump). Rufus

Re: Fwd: [Autonomo.us] Dmoz

Mike Linksvayer — 2008-11-24T16:13:11

What about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmoz#Software ??? Clause 4, Errors and Changes, makes the data non-free http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmoz#License_and_requirements Dmoz was a very important early open content pioneer, but I'm afraid it does not run on free software, does not make its non-free source available, and its data license has problems. So it is non-OSSD compliant all around. I'd be happy to be completely wrong on this, Mike -- http://support.creativecommons.org help us build http://creativecommons.org/asharedculture

open Milton and Shakespeare XML

Iain Emsley — 2008-11-23T17:20:59

_______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss

Re: Fwd: [Autonomo.us] Dmoz

Rufus Pollock — 2008-11-23T15:52:43

In my view http://dmoz.org/ does indeed meet the OSSD: a) Data is available (via web and in bulk) b) Has a license [1] which allows for free use, reuse and redistribution though, as you point out, subject to a relatively 'arduous' attribution requirement. However I don't think the attribution requirement is such as to render it non-open (I think the test here would be: does this hinder use -- or reuse -- in any significant way and here, IMO, the clear answer is no). [1]: http://www.dmoz.org/license.html There's now a CKAN package page with more info along these lines: Rufus On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Jonathan Gray public.gmane.org> wrote:

Fwd: [Autonomo.us] Dmoz

Jonathan Gray — 2008-11-23T13:16:26

What do people think? J. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Evan Prodromou public.gmane.org> Date: Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:14 AM Subject: [Autonomo.us] Dmoz To: discuss-sGP8xfnoDwbhQtUPeJZgzPU/3Eu2kcEP< at >public.gmane.org So, does http://dmoz.org/ meet the terms of the OSSD? I don't know if the software is available; but I'm principally thinking about the annoying badgeware license. Does the Free Culture Definition or Open Data Definition allow badgeware? -Evan _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss-sGP8xfnoDwbhQtUPeJZgzPU/3Eu2kcEP< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Fwd: [SPARC-OpenData] CFP: Openness and Higher Ed

Jonathan Gray — 2008-11-22T15:25:12

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/663 Call for Papers - Openness and the Future of Higher Education This Call for Papers is for a theme issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning entitled: Openness and the Future of Higher Education. The projected publication date is October 2009. The Guest Editors are Dr. David Wiley and John Hilton. The aim of this Special Issue is to further our understanding of the manner in which the open source, open access, and open education movements are now and will impact higher education organizations, learners, and other stakeholders in the future. Our intent is to stimulate critical debate, encourage collection and analyses of relevant data, and add to the theoretical foundations used in policy and planning discussions related to openness within institutions of higher education. Special consideration will be given to articles that present analyses and interpretations of empirical data, but rigorous theoretical submissions will also be considered. All submissions will be peer reviewed. Those submissions accepted for publication will be published under Creative Commons license in www.irrodl.org. DEADLINES: * Submission Proposals: January 15, 2009 * Notification of Acceptance: February 15 * Papers Due: May 1 * Peer Reviews Returned: June 30 * Finalized Papers Due: August 1 * Publication Date: October 15 SUBMISSION PROPOSALS Individual or multiple authors must first submit an abstract-length proposal of approximately 500-750 words to IRRODL's Managing Editor at irrodl-1Q/KASFKeDkcrqMZ/gn8gg< at >public.gmane.org Those who have had their abstracts accepted will be formally invited by the Guest Editors to submit a full-length paper of approximately 5000 words. For IRRODL's submission guidelines, visit: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/about/submissions All full-length papers submitted to IRRODL will be subject to multiple blind peer review. All blind peer reviews will be shared with the authors. While influenced by the outcome of the blind peer reviews, the Guest Editors reserve the right to make final publication decisions. TOPICS MAY INCLUDE: * Critical perspectives on open education * Effect of openness on access to educational opportunity * Evaluation of open educational resources and services * Issues of affordability and openness * Issues of quality and localization of open educational resources * Openness and accreditation * Openness and future course management systems / personal learning environments * Open models for awarding credit or degrees * Open / peer tutoring and advising models * Open source, open access, or open education policy in higher education * Open teaching / massively open online courses ("MOOC") * Open textbooks * Social implications of open education * Structures and patterns of reuse of open educational resources * Sustainable models of creating and sharing open educational resources * Unique impact of openness on institutions in developing countries

please vote for one click organisations

charlesarmstrong — 2008-11-21T23:54:25

circus foundation's "one click organisations" project has been shortlisted for social innovation camp. the final selection is being made by a public vote which runs until sunday. this is a great opportunity to get a prototype developed. if you've got a moment please cast a vote at http://www.sicamp.org/?page_id=300 (scroll to the bottom of the page and select "one click organisations" from the drop-down menu). one click organisations will provide a free web service to create and manage a legal structure for a social project or group. users will select from several options (eg how new members join and how formal decisions are made) and the system will do the rest. it will maintain a constitution, a register of members and manage the voting process for collective decisions. the project grew out of circus foundation's emergent democracy workshops. if you're interested in contributing please get in touch. we're currently looking for a project manager, an expert in constitutional law and a ux genius. - more details & a cheesy intro video at http://www.circus-foundation.org/projects/one-click-organisations/ - facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/group.php? gid=36079294821 thanks : charles custodian // CIRCUS foundation www.CIRCUS-foundation.org uk cell +44 7792 456807 usa cell +1 415 728 8656

Fwd: CFP: Visualizing the Past: Tools and Techniquesfor Understanding Historical Processes

Jonathan Gray — 2008-11-21T23:22:30

Thought this might be of interest... J. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Funded Workshop Visualizing the Past: Tools and Techniques for Understanding Historical Processes 20-21 February 2009 University of Richmond, Virginia, USA CALL FOR PAPERS: The digital revolution has made massive amounts of historical and social science data available to scholars in electronic formats, and this phenomenon is opening new possibilities for exploring the human past. The ability to plot historical processes embedded in these datasets using mapping and visualization tools holds remarkable promise for providing scholars new insights into old questions. Yet significant obstacles currently prevent scholars from sharing their geospatial data with one another, and thus from full taking advantage of the potential of visualization techniques. To address this, scholars and practitioners from multiple disciplines (geography, history, geographic information science, computer science, graphic arts, etc.) are invited to submit proposals for presentations at a two-day workshop (funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities) that will focus on two main issues: 1. How can we harness emerging cyberinfrastructure tools and interoperability standards to visualize, analyze, and better understand historical events and processes as they spread out across both time and space? 2. How can user-friendly tools or web sites be created to allow scholars and researchers to animate spatial and temporal data housed on different systems across the Internet? We seek 2-3 page proposals for 20-30 minute presentations that describe ongoing projects, address these questions, and outline a view for future research and experimentation. We invite proposals from all backgrounds, and relevant topics might include: historical GIS applications, cartographic animation, analyzing and visualizing temporal data, service oriented architecture, web-mapping and interoperability standards, data and metadata standards, open-source and commercial applications. The workshop will center on intense discussions among 10-20 participants in roundtable format. The first day will be devoted to individual presentations; the second day to discussions about the workshop's main questions, and describing what should be the future of this work. Travel scholarships will be available to invited participants. For more information or to submit your proposals, contact the conference organizers at: Andrew J. Torget, University of Richmond, atorget-4IoiFOtPYQ/2fBVCVOL8/A< at >public.gmane.org, 804-484-1636 James W. Wilson, James Madison University, wilsonjw-9VdY7ZjzP8c< at >public.gmane.org, 540-568-2757 Or visit the project website at: http://dsl.richmond.edu/workshop/ Proposals are due December 15, 2008 via email to the conference organizers, and invitations for participation will be sent out by December 31, 2008. Funding provided by NEH Digital Humanities Level I Start-Up Grant, Funding for accepted papers is not restricted to USA residents. James W. Wilson Assistant Professor of Geographic Science James Madison University Andrew J. Torget Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab University of Richmond

Open Everything Berlin, Saturday 6th December 2008

Jonathan Gray — 2008-11-21T13:39:12

Open Everything Berlin will take place on Saturday 6th December. More details at: http://blog.okfn.org/2008/11/21/open-everything-berlin-saturday-6th-december-2008/ Jonathan ---- After the success of Open Everything London a few weeks ago, we're now involved in putting on Open Everything Berlin, which will take place in early December. It will be a great opportunity to meet people interested in open knowledge, open source software, and so on. Details are as follows: * When: Saturday 6th December 2008 * Where: newthinking store, Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin-Mitte (map) * Programme: http://openeverything.mixxt.de/networks/wiki/index.Programm * Registration: Attendance is free! Sign up on the mixxt network! The event will start with a handover from Open Everything Hong Kong and finish with a handover to Open Everything Madison - both of which will also take place on the 6th. In addition to talks, presentations and discussions, the event will feature the launch of Ivo Gormley's Us Now, a Creative Commons licensed documentary about new forms of collaboration produced in association with the RSA: Everywhere you look, groups of people are using the internet to come together to share with one another, work together, or take some kind of public action" Clay Shirky. For the first time in history, we have the tools that truly amplify group effort and can change politics, business and society. Us Now follows the stories of the people that are redefining what is an institution; it plots the fate of a football club owned and run by its fans, a bank in which everyone is the manager, a global network whose members share their homes with strangers and asks politicians and thinkers such as George Osbourne, Ed Milliband, Don Tapscott and Clay Shirky; what all this means for society. There's also a (relatively) new ok-berlin mailing list. If you're around Berlin and you'd like to stay in touch with other people interested in open stuff - we hope you'll join!

Open Milton site up (though still some rough edges...)

Rufus Pollock — 2008-11-20T20:03:32

Thanks largely to the efforts of Iain Emsley we now have an Open Milton package and an associated site: As people will notice from e.g. the 'Why Open Shakespeare' section on the front page we haven't quite finished converting everything over but we still hope to have this ready to be launched properly by 9th December (Milton's birthday). If anyone would like to help out list of tickets for current iteration is at: We particularly need assistance preparing a timeline of Milton's life plus finishing off the the proof-editing of the Encyclopaedia Britannica entry for Shakespeare: Regards, Rufus

FW: Copyright Angst,Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do toEase Open Access

N.L.Scantlebury — 2008-11-19T18:46:58

_______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss