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Collating online collections. Study of 13 cultural heritage collections online
Francis Deblauwe, Saratoga, CA (United States) · May 05th, 2008 7:52 pm · 23 votes · no comments made
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More and more museums and other cultural heritage organizations are offering online access to their holdings. These initiatives are varied in scope, depth and target audience. They also take different approaches to copyright and open access, esp. regarding photos of art and artifacts in their care.
Sample
For this limited investigation, I selected a more or less random sample... [ read ]
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You Can’t Share What You Don’t Have
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A Closer Look at South Africa’s Social Media Construction Capacity
South Africans have been watching a lot of YouTube lately. And for all the wrong reasons. In February of this year, a story broke about a group of white male students at the University of the Free State, (a traditionally conservative Afrikaans campus in the town of Bloemfontein, the judicial capital of the country)... [ read ]
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Social Network Platforms in Brazil: The Videolog Case
Paula Martini, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) · Apr 24th, 2008 4:37 pm · 29 votes · no comments made
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Nine months before YouTube's launching, another online videos service was being born: Videolog.tv, a Brazilian website that was built on an open business model. Mostly used by people connected to local young urban cultures, like skaters, filmmakers and Parkour practitioners, Videolog is now increasing the bet it has always placed on community issues.
Actually, they do prefer... [ read ]
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Access to Knowledge Platform at Bibliotheca Alexandrina
anas (United Kingdom) · Apr 22nd, 2008 4:58 pm · 44 votes · no comments made
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In alignment with its historical track record of promoting access to knowledge and the values of openness and scholarship, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina added another landmark to the scene of Access to Knowledge that places special emphasis on the Arab region.
The Access to Knowledge electronic platform that came to life on 31 March 2008 is the result of significant effort and... [ read ]
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Cory Doctrow Recounts Alliance With Immortals
Tim_H, Cambridge (United States) · Jun 16th, 2007 11:14 pm · 29 votes · no comments made
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Cory Doctrow, discussing strategies for activism, recounted that some of his best allies in the copyfight included such diverse figures as the distinguished “400-year old immortal vampire senators” and the Society for Biblical Literature.
The discussion, part of a larger panel on “A Culture Enviromentalist Movement And Beyond,” moderated by John Wilbanks of Science Commons, featured... [ read ]
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Organisation Spotlight: "Be SELFish, share your knowledge!"
Daniela Faris, Johannesburg (South Africa) · Oct 17th, 2007 11:41 pm · 20 votes · 2 comments
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There’s a new kid on the block in the education commons movement. It’s called SELF, a project dedicated to developing premium training and educational materials about Free Software and Open Standards.
“There is growing consensus on the idea that the lack of educational materials is one of the main causes that hold back the massive adoption of Free Software and Open Standards... [ read ]
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Throwing Down the Gauntlet
Heather Ford, Johannesburg (South Africa) · Jul 23rd, 2007 4:50 pm · 51 votes · 1 comment
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I was teased terribly at the last iCommons Board meeting about my constant references to “peer production” as the focus of this year’s Summit. “What exactly is peer production?” people asked. “Who actually knows what peer production is about? And why is it important anyway?”
This was the first gauntlet thrown down by my bosses: I had to lucidly explain exactly what this great... [ read ]
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Mistake? teenage invasion and radio party
alexandre, Bonete (Brazil) · Jun 18th, 2007 3:23 am · 39 votes · 7 comments
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Arriving at Friday's party one would wonder if this was really the place were all iCommoners would meet to relax and dance after a full day at this year's iSummit. I sure did, given the teenage invasion taking place. Apparently Friday is the day for the teenage party at the club, and this Friday they all showed up as well.
Mistake Mistake's show was cool, but due to the teenage... [ read ]
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Art Collective MTAA Live in New York!
Paddy Johnson, New York (United States) · Jun 16th, 2007 8:47 pm · 11 votes · no comments made
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Artist collective MTAA work in Dubrovnik AND New York. This week M.River holds down the fort in Manhattan remixing a variety of images taken this week at the Summit. Most of these works are simple Photoshop jobs reflecting the image and using the pen function. I enjoy the crapesque aesthetic of these works and the fact that the act of mirroring itself employs the commons spirit.... [ read ]
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An interview with the Commons
Daniela Faris, Johannesburg (South Africa) · Feb 07th, 2007 4:02 pm · 24 votes · no comments made
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A few weeks ago I asked the community the following question: "What do you think was the most exciting thing that happened in the commons during 2006, and what do you anticipate for the future of the commons for 2007?"
We thought that answering this question could garner some interesting responses on what has been done well, or what has gone terribly wrong, and what we can work... [ read ]
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