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articles · Preserving Digital Heritage for Perpetuity… or at Least for the Next 25 Years
24/5/2008 00:26 · 30 votes · 3 comments
Sharing heritage digitally is becoming more and more commonplace. In the past few years alone, a new awareness has emerged of the value of digital sharing. The National Endowment for the Humanities has initiated a new Digital Humanities Program, which awarded over $1 million in 2007. The Society for American Archaeology’s annual conference in Vancouver in March saw twice as many...
articles · Scholars, Looters and Stewardship of the Past
14/12/2007 23:22 · 52 votes · 2 comments
At a brunch gathering I attended recently, a guest casually mentioned that they were reading a book about Heinrich Schliemann, the German excavator at Troy, who removed archaeological treasures from Turkey in the late 19th century. There were nods and chuckles as people recalled the (probably fictitious) story of Schliemann “saving” what he named “Priam’s Treasure” by whisking the...
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articles · From the Ground Up: Shared Heritage with Open Context
7/11/2007 15:52 · no comments
In 2001, a group of archaeologists and anthropologists founded the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) to explore ways to make cultural heritage data dissemination easier and more cost effective. In 2003, the AAI received funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as part of their Open Educational Resources initiative and the primary outcome of this funding is Open Context,...
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articles · Open Source vs. Copyright vs. Creative Commons vs. Open Access vs. Copyleft
by Francis Deblauwe · voted on 29/8/2008 02:27 · 35 votes · 1 comment
The free Google Trends tool offers many possibilities. Let's compare the related concepts that concern us all at iCommons. What do we see when facing off "open source," "copyright," "Creative Commons," "open access" and "copyleft"? Googlers go for "open source" followed by "copyright." The remaining three concepts are relatively unknown. In other words, the Open Access movement...
articles · Ancient Righting: Archaeologists & Copyright
by Francis Deblauwe · voted on 7/8/2008 16:06 · 37 votes · no comments
From 6-8 June, I was lucky enough to be able to attend a scholarly symposium at UCLA in sunny Southern California: the UCLA/Getty Storage Symposium. Preservation and Access to Archaeological Materials. I live blogged it on the IW&A Blog. Of course, the papers were very specialised and/or technical, and normally only interesting for archaeologists and conservators. However, one issue...
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articles · Egypt's Attempted 5000 Year Copyright Extension
by Eric Kansa · commented on 11/1/2008 09:00 · 41 votes · 7 comments
A recent announcement from the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities caused something of an Internet news stir, seeing active discussion on several blogs and other outlets, including high traffic sites such as BoingBoing and Slashdot.
According to a report from the BBC, the Egyptian Government is about to enact a copyright law to protect Egyptian antiquities, and this law...
articles · Gogo creates an iCommons crossword puzzle
by Gogo Hleba · commented on 30/11/2007 08:02 · 25 votes · 1 comment
Although Gogo loves the commons community with all her heart, she sometimes finds herself emotionally weighed down by all the problems that the community turn to her with; burning issues such as: Why hasn't anyone voted for my article? Why can't I used all-rights-reserved images on the website? Is it really wrong for men to wear ladies underwear to the office? So Gogo decided...
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