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The Public Domain Manifesto

5 February 2010
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“The Public Domain Manifesto” has been released by COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the digital public domain. If you would like to show your support for this cause, after you have read “The Public Domain Manifesto”, you may sign it. You may choose whether or not you would like your signature displayed online. Below, [...]

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Beginning a Series — Reviews of Open Data Sites

29 January 2010
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I will be reviewing English-language, government-sponsored open data sites as an off-shoot of my doctoral work. I will begin initially with the “key” government sites compiled by the authors of The Guardian’s DataBlog as one of their inaugural posts.
Last week I reviewed data.gov.uk, so I while I may add a bit more detail to [...]

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HM Government Opens Up Government Data to the Public

21 January 2010
Data.uk.gov web site listing of all data sets

The British Government has released data sets to the public for use in either the public or private sectors at data.gov.uk.
Previously, the governments of the United States, Australia, and New Zealand had created data sites for use by the public, including commercial use. The primary idea behind the release of these data sets is [...]

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World Wide Mush? An Argument Against the “Internet as a Collective”

10 January 2010
Jaron Lanier, You are Not a Gadget

Researcher Jaron Lanier has an interesting article in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal entitled “World Wide Mush“. The article is a plug for his book, You Are Not a Gadget. Although the author does not specifically discuss large-scale data management, I am including it because he addressed “the collective” work of the Internet, upon which [...]

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White House RFI, US Taxpayer Access to Federally Funded Research

16 December 2009

SPARC sent out a reminder email today that last week the White House sent out a Request for Information (RFI) regarding public access to taxpayer funded research. Specifically, the White House is “inviting input on ‘enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from research funded by federal science and technology agencies.’” The RFI will only [...]

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