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BC Commons licence
http://www.bccampus.ca/Page93.aspx It struck me that while there will be quite a few out there who have seen this before, I haven’t seen it make the rounds of the blogosphere and so maybe it is worthwhile… The BCcommons Licence is a “open content” licence inspired by Creative Commons but aimed specifically at facilitating sharing of content [...]
Open Repository – a U.K.-based DSpace implementor
http://www.openrepository.com/ As if additional proof was needed that there is legs to the value-added open source service model, another example in the field of ‘institutional repositories’ (in addition to the Fedora implementors, VTLS) is this U.K.-based company that is making a business of implementing DSpace. In addition, the existance of not one but 2 commercialized [...]
Draft of Creative COmmons for Canada licence
http://creativecommons.org/projects/international/ ca/english-changes.pdf Potentially of interest to Canadian readers, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic has released a draft of a Canadian Creative Commons (cc-ca) licence. The biggest difference – we spell ‘Licence’ different than Americans! But seriously now, there is value to having Canadian lawyers translate this into language used in our courts, [...]
Digicult Techwatch – Natural Language Processing
http://www.digicult.info/pages/techwatch.php Digicult is a fabulous publication aimed at the cultural and scientific heritage sectors funded by the European Union. In addition to their newsletter and thematic issues, they produce shorter documents called “Techwatches” that help to introduce a specific field of technology to their readers and draw out some of the implications for the future. [...]
FInal draft of JISC DRM report available
http://www.intrallect.com/drm-study/ The final draft of a report on DRM produced by Intrallect on behalf of the JISC is now available. The report seems an improved version of an interim draft you may have seen back in June – the collection of use cases could be especially useful to other folks working on DRM issues in [...]
SciX – Open, self organising repository for scientific information exchange
http://www.scix.net/ Via David Mattison came news of this ‘repository’ project from the European Union to enable open publishing of scientific literature. This is definitely more of the ‘institutional’ repository-type projects, but still lots of interesting stuff to learn from – check out the work packages they defined (who would have thunk to include “repository content” [...]
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