Bobbie Johnson has interviewed Tim Berners-Lee for the Guardian about the new subject of web science – study of how the Web works and the way it works. Both MIT and the University of Southampton are championing the Web Science Research Initiative. As the article says, the Web needs to remain free and open if […]
The Open Knowledge Foundation are bringing the Open Service Definition to version 1.0 which is a helpful step. I wholeheartedly agree with it. As services and APIs develop, we need to create a legal framework within which data, knowledge and dissemination services can be used to allow greater access to open knowledge now rather than […]
I went to the Future of the Internet talk at the Oxford Internet Institute (webcast here) where Larry Sanger (Citizendium and Wikipedia) and Andrew Keen debated the where the Internet might go and how knowledge would develop. Neither, I think, really got into the argument but rather skirted the issues. Sanger’s argument for a more […]
Mats Dahlstrom’s talk at the Dilemmas of Digitization conference mentioned the Deep Sharing: A Case for the Federated Digital library paper by Daivd Seaman. It would be great if there was a system for rapidly building small data stores from scratch to include texts and then have these with editing software components, text encoding output […]
One of the ARTFUL developers presented the PhiloLogic and its PhiloMine extension. Both are free text searching databases and tools. Both sets of code are designed for large sets of data which does raise the question whether it might be useful to develop a set of tools for smaller data holdings or individuals.
I was recently at the Dilemmas of Digitization conference held at the Maison Francaise in Oxford and organised by the Cost 32 group, a project looking at creating open scholarly communities online across Europe. One of the points that interested me is the idea that repositories need to develop services of their own to the […]
