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“A Strategy for Copyright in the Digital Age”: a very useful official british report

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Ministerial Foreword

“…We are, however, at a crossroads in our relationship with our new digital world. Digital technology means access to information on a vast scale. It has changed the way people publish and consume works. It allows anyone and everyone to make and distribute quick, cheap and totally accurate copies. Consumers have reached out to grab the potential of this new technology. The copyright debate, once in the hands of the professionals of the creative industries, is now a debate for everyone. Businesses and governments have seen the challenges but have been slow to respond…”

References:

The report:  “© The Way Ahead : A Strategy for Copyright In The Digital Age”

Intellectual Property Office

Source: http://scinfolex.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/angleterre-un-rapport-montre-la-voie-du-copyright-2-0/

Feed me! Google Alerts not just for email anymore

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Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/feed-me-google-alerts-not-just-for.html 10/31/2008

This week, our Trondheim-based Google Alerts team launched support for feeds, a highly requested feature you can use to receive alerts via the RSS feed reader of your choice. (Of course, we think the best places to view your updates are iGoogle and Google Reader.) Until now, alerts have been delivered via email only, but those days are over. Now your News, Web, Blog, Video, and Groups alerts are more easily accessible than ever.

Once you sign in to Google Alerts and create an alert, you can opt for feed delivery by clicking 'Edit' next to your alert on the 'Manage Your Alerts' page and changing your 'Deliver to' selection from 'Email' to 'Feed' (click on the image to see larger).

This feature was previously proposed by A9 (Amazon) , Yahoo, Bing (Microsoft) … (before Google)

It would be good to offer such a feature on EU websites, specially inside search function of the registers 

What about the Community Agencies ? A report of the French Senat

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A very useful information report 

The whole report (72 pages) http://www.senat.fr/noticerap/2009/r09-017-notice.html  

The TOC : http://www.senat.fr/rap/r09-017/r09-017_mono.html

Resources: 

All the agencies : http://europa.eu/agencies/index_en.htm

Community agencies: http://europa.eu/agencies/community_agencies/index_en.htm

Something must be done at the Europa level to improve the impact of these agencies  

“Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums”

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A very useful resource:

A new book published today by Cornell University Library, can help professionals at these institutions answer that question…

The manual is available for purchase $39.95 from CreateSpace. You can download the entire book for free by visiting the Social Science Research Network and the eCommons@Cornell.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14142

ISBN: 978-0-935995-10-7

Cornell University Libraries

Read more on http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/10/30/cornell-university-library-publishes-new-digitization-manual/

Thesaurus : ISO DIS 25964

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A new ISO norm for either monolingual or multilingual thesauri

That’s an important aspect for search.

http://www.iso.org/iso/fr/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=53657

See also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesaurus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Knowledge_Organisation_System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(computer_science)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_vocabulary

Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government.

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A very interesting paper by Lawrence Lessig, which will perhaps provoke controversy

LL is professor of law and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Law School, and the author most recently of Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (Penguin). He is on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation and on the board of Maplight.org

See also “Institutional Corruption - Opening Lecture”: http://blip.tv/file/2711623

Danish Government launches Public Sector Information Data use competition

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Public Sector Information (“PSI”) data re-use competition : What is it all about?

It’s about that we want to demonstrate through real examples of how public data can be used for much more and much more numerous than they are today. We believe that Danish companies, organizations, students, entrepreneurs and ordinary creative people can create useful digital services and information-rich mash-ups, which we in the public sector do not have the imagination to imagine. Therefore, the science minister Helge Sander printed Ideas Competition government data in games where the best ideas for solutions rewarded with financial support for realization of ideas.

• Evaluation Criteria
• Competition Rules
• Participant Guide
• The FAQ: Questions and Answers

Why not such a competition for EU websites ?

Sources:

http://opendata-network.org/2009/10/danish-government-launches-psi-data-use-competition/

http://www.epsiplus.net/news/competition_opens_100_000_danish_kroner

2008 Commission Report on Public Access to Documents

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from Legal-EU Law Blog by Bartolus at http://eulaw.typepad.com/eulawblog/2009/10/2008-commission-report-on-public-access-to-documents.html

The Commission released its annual report on transparency for the year 2008.

You can read the document - COM(2009) 331 final : English version here

Version française du rapport 2008

 

An interesting report indeed, but nothing about the registers for comitology and for the studies (which are no more  available since 2003).

But these papers were not cited in the 1049/2001 regulation.

A Partnership Digitizes Around 1.5 Million Volumes of U.S. Federal Documents

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As you’ll read this is not a new project but rather one where the pilot phase is about to end and they’re preparing for the next phase. The content that’s been digitized will be accessible via Google Book Search with copies to the HathiTrust Digital Repository.

The project began in 2007 with CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) and Google partnering to digitize up to 10 million volumes. You can learn more here, read the agreement, and checkout the detailed FAQ.

Source: http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/10/12/cic-google-partnering-to-digitize-around-1-5-million-volumes-of-u-s-federal-documents/

The Three Laws of Open Government Data

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Find, Play and Share. That's all we want.

Read the full post at http://eaves.ca/2009/09/30/three-law-of-open-government-data/

Have a look also at the Open Government Data Principles (2007) : http://resource.org/8_principles.html