Timothy Vollmer has a new post reporting on the Open Government Data Conference. From the post:
Governments release datasets on census information, weather and geospatial data, food safety and product recall information, and data on foreign commerce and economic aid. In the United States there is now over 300,000 datasets made available to the public for consumption and innovative reuse via website mashups, mobile applications, and other uses.
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Tagged conference, open content, open data, openness, policy
Timothy Vollmer has a new post noting that the University of Michigan has licensed its website CC BY.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, creative commons, higher education, library, openness
The radio station KOHO has posted an interview with Cable Green on open textbooks.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, open textbook, open textbooks, openness
David Rapp has a new post relating what happened at the Open Data, Open Minds SPARC meeting. From the post:
The 2010 SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) Digital Repositories Meeting this week managed to combine serious talk about the challenges of open data, examining both successes and failures, with an efficient and informative showcase, the Innovation Fair, featuring rapid-fire presentations of tools and services from institutional repositories (IR).
Pieter Kleymeer has a new post discussing his thoughts on Open Education Conference 2010, with a focus on the edupunks.
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Tagged conference, drumbeat, EDUPUNK, open content, Open Education, open source, openness
Katherine Fletcher has posted a video explaining a “road map for the Open Education Highway.” From the post:
This project seeks to develop an application programming interface (API) for publishing Open Education Resources (OER) to remixable repositories. An API will provide developers a roadmap for navigating the education highway of OER repositories and and make it possible for the wider community to create services and tools to support wide-scale adoption and production of OER.
Thanks to James Burke for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Andy McGregor has a new post about the advantages of open bibliographic metadata for libraries. From the post:
At JISC we think there are some intriguing benefits from taking the open approach to bibliographic metadata. We think it will maximise the possibilities for reusing the metadata to develop new and innovative services for librarians, researchers, students and teachers.
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Tagged higher education, Internet, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Mel Chua has a new post discussing obstacles for FOSS adoption in higher education. From the post:
Different institutions have different policies, and some professors may not have the time, the legal expertise, the political capital, or the ability to take the risk and step forth for the advocacy this might take at their particular school.
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Tagged commons, FOSS, open content, Open Education, open source, openness, OSS
The Search Principle Blog posted a video of Steve Harnad discussing “Impact Metrics of Open Access.”
Tal Niv has a new post as part of an ongoing discussion of the contributions of Creative Commons. From the post:
As methods for creation, collaboration and sharing tie new ties and promote communities by making firmer existing ones, they expand creation, and groups of creators, they allow creation to evolve based on optimal reliance on the shared creativity of the group, and consumers to freely intake those works, in increasing numbers and in greater capacity.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, openness
