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Over the holiday we added an Icelandic translation of the Open Knowledge Definition! Many thanks to Hjalmar Gislason and Icelandic Open Data! If you’d like to translate the Definition into another language, or if you’ve already done so, please get in touch on our discuss list, or at info (at) the OKF’s domain name. Share This
Stevan Harnad, A Physicist's Challenge to Duplicate Arxiv's Functionality Over Distributed Institutional Repositories, Open Access Archivangelism, January 5, 2009.
Summary: The answer to the question of whether longstanding Arxiv self-archivers need either change their locus of deposit or do double the keystrokes if they are to deposit their papers in both Arxiv and their own Institutional Repositories (IRs) is that this can now be accomplished automatically, depositing only once, thanks to the IR software's SWORD import/export functionality. A second question is whether central harvesters of distributed IRs can provide (at least) the same functionality as direct-deposit central repositories (or even better). The provisional reply is that they can, for example, by building the functionality on top of the Celestial OAI-PMH harvester. It is now important and timely to demonstrate this capability technically, in the service of OA's fundamental objective: Getting the OA IRs filled. The demonstration that central harvesting of distributed IR deposits can not only duplicate but surpass the functionality of direct central deposit should help encourage funders to adopt the convergent IR deposit mandates that facilitate the adoption of complementary mandates by the universal provider of research output: the worldwide network of institutions (OA's "sleeping giant") -- rather than divergent mandates that fail to encourage (or even discourage) institutional mandates.
PS: Also see Dorothea Salo's comments on one of Stevan's earlier posts on SWORD.
...SWORD is not a harvesting protocol; it is a deposit protocol. The party that initiates a SWORD deposit is the party with the material in hand. SWORD offers no way for a repository that wants material from another repository to request it....
Peter Sefton, Potential projects: #2 Integrating ICE with the Open Journal Systems, ptsefton, January 6, 2009. Excerpt:
Back in December I was at the Open Access Publishing meeting in Sydney, where I got to meet MJ Suhonos and John Willinsky from PKP. I talked about how ICE complemented software from PKP.
Coincidentally, while I was writing up what I said at the meeting I got an email from Chris Rusbridge wondering about whether ICE could help with a conference/journal workflow. Papers from the International Digital Curation Conference (like ours) flow through to the International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC). The IJDC people are apparently thinking about trying to make the journal available in (X)HTML as well as PDF and to accept a broader range of submissions than just Microsoft Word documents.
I think, but don’t actually know that ICE technologies could help with this....
PS: Also see our past posts on ICE.
Stevan Harnad, Comparing Physicists' Central and Institutional Self-archiving Practices at Southampton, Open Access Archivangelism, January 5, 2009.
Summary: An Indiana University study (on the Institutional Repository of the University of Southampton) by Xia (2008) has tested the hypothesis that physicists who already habitually self-archive in an Open Access (OA) Central Repository (Arxiv) would be more likely to self-archive in their own institution's OA Institutional Repository (IR). The outcome of the study was that the hypothesis is incorrect: If anything, veteran Arxiv self-archivers are more resistant to IR deposit than ordinary nonarchivers, because they neither wish to change their longstanding locus of deposit, nor do they wish to double-deposit.
This outcome is quite natural and to be expected. The solution for this relatively small population of seasoned self-archivers is for their institution-external deposits to be automatically imported back into their IRs using the SWORD protocol (which can also be used to export automatically from IRs to central repositories). There is no need for veteran self-archivers to change their practices or to double-deposit.
It is not the 15% of authors who already self-archive (whether institution-externally or on their own institutional websites) that are the problem for OA: The problem is the 85% who do not yet self-archive. It is in order to set the keystrokes of those nonarchivers in motion at long last -- for their own benefit and that of their employing institutions as well as the tax-paying public that funds their research -- that Green OA self-archiving mandates are now being adopted by their institutions and funders....
Update (1/6/08). Also see Dorothea Salo's comments:
...SWORD is not a harvesting protocol; it is a deposit protocol. The party that initiates a SWORD deposit is the party with the material in hand. SWORD offers no way for a repository that wants material from another repository to request it, much less do so in an “automatic” fashion.
For the SWORD-based dual-deposit system Dr. Harnad describes to work, the disciplinary repository would have to arrange for SWORD deposit into every single IR represented by the faculty who deposit there. It would also have to track faculty affiliations, to send deposited materials to the correct IR(s)....
I think there are better ways to solve the problem. Let me suggest a couple.
One is to turn the problem around; let IRs do SWORD deposit to disciplinary repositories, snagging a copy for themselves in passing. IRs and their repo-rats do have incentive to build this, as we create bonus visibility for our faculty thereby, and we can (at least potentially) help with funder mandates, too. All the target repositories have to do is implement SWORD and hook that into whatever safeguards they need to ensure that IRs aren’t feeding them stuff they don’t want.
(If PubMedCentral or arXiv or RePEc or SSRN were to implement SWORD, it would be a gigantic step forward. Please, will someone in the know suggest it to them?) ...
Another potential solution is to look more closely at OAI-ORE instead of SWORD....
I wholeheartedly agree that repositories of all sorts need to talk to each other better....
Over the holidays, video hosting site Veoh won another victory under the DMCA safe harbors, this time against Universal Music Group (UMG). The ruling should put to rest the argument that transcoding and other activities necessary for making content accessible on the web are not covered by the DMCA's Section 512(c) safe harbor for storing material on behalf of users (i.e., hosting user-generated content). This is good news not just for Veoh, but also for YouTube and every other site that hosts material uploaded by users.
Like many other companies that host content on behalf of users, Veoh has been bedeviled by copyright lawsuits. The copyright owners make the same argument in each of these suits: the hosting service should be liable for every infringing bit uploaded by naughty users and responsible for the full cost of policing for infringement. Fortunately, Congress enacted the DMCA's safe harbor provisions back in 1998 to protect service providers from exactly these risks, offering immunity from copyright damages to those who implement a notice-and-takedown system. In August 2008, Veoh won a big victory against adult video purveyor Io Group, relying on these provisions.
Veoh's latest victory was against UMG, which sued Veoh because Veoh users allegedly uploaded UMG music videos without authorization. The issue before the court was whether the DMCA safe harbor for hosting only covers the actual act of storing bits on a server, or whether it also covers related activities, such as:
Relying on the statutory language, as well as the legislative history, the court concluded that all of these activities are covered by the DMCA Section 512(c) safe harbor. Lots of online service providers will greet this ruling with relief. If the court had accepted UMG's arguments, every web host would lose the safe harbor as soon as it made web pages available to the public. The ruling should also help YouTube in its ongoing battle with Viacom, which also turns on the continuing strength of the DMCA safe harbors.
But the Veoh ruling also points out a surprising irony: while YouTube and Viacom are fighting their interminable litigation trench war, many interesting DMCA legal questions are being resolved in smaller, faster-moving cases involving companies like Veoh. At this rate, the highly-anticipated Viacom v. YouTube lawsuit may end up a footnote in the legal fights that define the rules governing user-generated content.
Today, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the United States District Court in San Francisco denied the government's third motion to dismiss the Al-Haramain v. Bush litigation. The ruling means that the case can proceed and the court also set up a process to allow the Al Haramain plaintiffs to prosecute the case while protecting classified information.
Al-Harmain Islamic Foundation, the Oregon chapter of an Islamic charity, sued the Bush Administration for the illegal surveillance of the organization and its attorneys as part of the NSA warrantless wiretapping program. The case was based on a secret document that was inadvertently disclosed by the government that, according to the plaintiffs, demonstrates that they were subjected to unlawful electronic surveillance outside the scope of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
In late 2007, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that despite the disclosure, the "Sealed Document" itself was a state secret, but sent the case back to the District Court to determine whether the FISA law nonetheless allowed the case to go forward, under a doctrine called "preemption." Last summer, the Court had ruled that FISA does preempts the state secrets privilege, and gave Al-Haramain the right to amend its complaint to show that they were "aggrieved persons" within the meaning of FISA through evidence other than the Sealed Document. If they could do so, the case could proceed.
In today's ruling, the Court held that in their amended complaint the Al-Haramain plaintiffs had presented sufficient evidence that they were "aggrieved persons" and rejected the Government's claims to the contrary, saying: "Without a doubt, plaintiffs have alleged enough to plead 'aggrieved persons' status so as to proceed to the next step in proceedings . . ."
In order to allow litigation to proceed while keeping the secrets under wraps, the Court ordered the government to arrange security clearances for Al-Haramain's attorneys. The Court also ordered the government to allow Judge Walker to review the Sealed Document in his chambers by January 19th. Finally, the Court required the government to review the classified submissions in the case, and declassify as much as possible. The Court will schedule a hearing later this month to plan next steps.
2009-01-05, The DCMI Usage Board has published a structured set of criteria for reviewing application profiles based on the DCMI Abstract Model.
2009-01-05, The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has completed the legal steps for incorporation as a public, not-for-profit Company limited by Guarantee in Singapore. The founding members of the new legal entity are the National Library Board Singapore and the National Library of Finland. The other DCMI Affiliates, the Joint Information Systems Commission (JISC) in the UK, the National Library, National Archives and the State Services Commission of New Zealand and the National Library of Korea, will become Members in the weeks ahead.
2009-01-05, A completely new version of the DCMI Conference Paper repository has been installed at the National Library of Korea. The new repository includes the proceedings of all conferences from Tokyo 2001 until Berlin 2008.
Hi,
I was just checking out how ubiquity development is coming along when
I noticed it is now skinable ... So I decided to put together this
theme that (sort of) resembles good ol' Enso. It's obviously not
perfect, but I like it :)
You can check out the css and install the skin at [link].
At its December 16-17 meeting, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI) adopted this statement, drafted in its previous meeting:
In order to help catalyze and facilitate the growth of advanced CI [cyberinfrastructure], a critical component is the adoption of open access policy for data, publications and software.
(Thanks to Tony Hey.)
Comment. The NSF should be the next agency after the NIH to adopt an OA mandate. This important recommendation carries special weight because it comes from the ACCI. Kudos to all the ACCI members.
Also see our past posts on the NSF's cyberinfrastructure policy deliberations.
Dear all,
I am new to Semantic Forms and I tried hard to solve my issue before
deciding to ask for your advice, but I couldn't make it, so here we are:
I have a problem with the "Edit With Form" tab, aka the "formedit"
action.
When I create a new page using the apposite Special page, no problem,
hi
i want to use tesseract just to clean my image and the give me list of word
in my image (without doing OCR), that is , i want just the rectagle position
for each word
how can i do this by tesseract
thank you
I'm relatively new to all of this but I thought I'd make a quick
command to search Craigslist. It works as long as everyone lives where
I do :p
How do I access the cookie generated by Craigslist to define the
locale a user has Craigslist set to? This way I can make the URL
dynamic based on a user's previous visit to Craiglist.
In-Tech, the Austrian OA publisher, has launched two new peer-reviewed OA journals:
In both cases, the inaugural issues are still forthcoming. In-Tech first announced the journals about two months ago, when it launched its new web site intechweg.org. (Thanks to Aleksandar Lazinica.)
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama today named Elena Kagan as his nominee for Solicitor General. See the announcement.
Kagan currently serves as dean of Harvard Law School. She presided over the adoption of the school's OA mandate last year, the first such policy for a law school. See e.g. her positive comments on the policy here.
Kagan also presided over the successful efforts to lure Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig back to Harvard. See e.g. her warm comments on Lessig and CC from this December 2008 event.
Comment. The Solicitor General represents the federal government in the Supreme Court, files amicus briefs in cases at the appellate level, and decides whether to appeal cases found adversely to the government. Having a friend of OA as Solicitor General is a welcome development, especially if publishers follow through on their threat to file suit against the NIH policy or a future public access policy.
See also our past posts on Obama's nominees for Secretary of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration administrator, and President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology co-chairs.
Doctor Spurt, Proposal: The Journal of Null Results, Effortless Incitement, January 5, 2009.
Comment. For examples, see the OA Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine, Journal of Negative Results (ecology and evolutionary biology), and Journal of Interesting Negative Results in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.... [T]here's a lot of research that in some sense fails to find anything. More specifically, what is found isn't far from the 'null hypothesis' that there is no interesting relationship between the variables measured, or no effect of the experimental manipulation.
Journals mostly have a strong preference for articles that do find something, which means something other than an outcome consistent with the null hypothesis. That is, they prefer 'positive' results. ...
There should be a web-based Open Access Journal of Null Results. ...
Hi all,
Version 1.4.1 of Semantic Forms has been released; which means that SF and
SMW are currently on the same version number (not the first time it's
happened, I don't think). This version has the following changes:
- setting any of the parameters "values=", "values from category=" or
"values from concept=" for a field that represents a property of type 'Page'
International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists, How accessible is your agricultural information?, AgInfo News from IAALD, January 2, 2009.
.... Despite the best efforts of the open access movement, digging deeper for specific research information, for example, reveals many reports and articles to be much less accessible than we would hope ...
It's up to each of us and our organizations to examine how truly available, accessible and applicable our own information, data and knowledge really are ... and to work with others to ensure that agricultural knowledge does not remain on the shelf, in our heads, or stuck on an intranet! ..
The UK Data Archive released a suite of Web pages on data sharing and management on December 23, 2008. (Thanks to DataShare Blog.)From the announcement:
... The pages aim to provide data creators, data managers and data curators with best practice strategies and methods for creating, preparing and storing shareable datasets.
Advice has been divided into a number of key areas or modules providing detailed information on each topic. These are:
- Sharing data - why and how?
- Consent, confidentiality and ethics
- Copyright
- Data documentation and metadata
- Data formats and software
- Data storage, back-up, and security ...
Happy New Year! One of Omeka’s newest plugins allows your online visitors to share items on their social networks. When configuring the plugin, you decide which services to link to and then icons linking to those networks appear on the /items/show page. Download the Social Bookmarking plugin and within minutes your collections can reach [...]
The International Journal of Insect Science is a forthcoming peer-reviewed OA journal published by Libertas Academica. See the January 5, 2009 announcement. Article processing charges are $1395, subject to discount or waiver.
You may have heard that lcsh.info - which explored how Library of Congress Subject Headings could be represented as a Semantic Web application - was closed down last month. The good news is that there are now two new projects publishing library-related open data: http://ckan.net/package/read/iconclass http://ckan.net/package/read/hud-library-usagedata The first, ICONCLASS, is “an experimental service that makes the ICONCLASS Iconographic Classification [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Francis S. Collins May Be in Line to Head the NIH. Excerpt:
Francis S. Collins, a former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, may be in line to head the National Institutes of Health in the Obama administration.
A report in Science magazine’s ScienceInsider blog cites Alan O. Trounson, president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, in San Francisco, as saying he has heard repeated mention of Dr. Collins for the post of NIH director.
Dr. Collins, asked about the matter at a meeting last week of an Obama transition team, said, “No comment,” ScienceInsider reported.
Dr. Collins led NIH participation in the Human Genome Project before resigning last August to explore other professional opportunities....
Comment. This would be a superb appointment. Collins has the respect of researchers in the field and he's a strong supporter of OA. He's the person most responsible for OA to the results of the human genome project, as well as a defender of PubChem against the ACS. As he told the Baltimore Sun (April 7, 2005) when Celera made its own genome data OA:
"This data just wants to be public," said a pleased Collins, who is also director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. "It's the kind of fundamental information that has no direct connection to a product, it's information that everybody wants, and it will find its way into the public."
See our past posts on Collins' OA-related work.
Open for Questions is a feature of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's transition Web site. Open for Questions is a Digg-style, user-submitted press conference, where users submit questions and vote them up or down, and the most popular questions in each round are answered by the transition team. The current round was opened December 29. A question about OA is presently ranked in the top 40 Science & Technology questions:
"The NIH has taken the lead in ensuring all recipients of their research grants publish their results in open access journals. This has proven to be a revolutionary move that has greatly enhanced research. Will other agencies be following suit?"
Ryan, Fairfax, VA
Comment. The confusion of OA journals and archives in the question is regrettable. However, interested citizens can still create an account and vote up the question. It's a bit late in this round, but it seems that questions carried over from the previous round; if it's not answered this time, the votes may count for the next round. There's no deep link to the question, but you can find it in the Science & Technology category or by searching for "open access".
See also our past posts on Obama CTO, a similar site.
not sure what I did, I may have messed up the about:config ubiquity
settings, but it's not working at all, nothing appear when pressing the
hotkeys (triple checked it) and the about:ubiquity commands page shows
no commands... any ideas? purging and reinstalling iceweasel, and
reinstalling the plugin doesn't fix anything.
Hi all,
I have a command feed with 2 commands (watch & listen), when someone
subscribes to it for the first time both show up in cmdlist.html, but
only "listen" is ticked.
Also, the feed appears in the "subscribed feeds" list on the about
page, but neither of the commands are listed underneath.
I just loaded an external command called java that uses google to get
a java api... Now i wanted to do some modifications to it and i
noticed, that it contains:
jQuery.get( url, params, function(data) {
var numToDisplay = 3;
var results = data.responseData.results.spli ce( 0, numToDisplay );
pblock.innerHTML = CmdUtils.renderTemplate( {file:"google-
Université de Liège has adopted an OA mandate. (Thanks to Stevan Harnad.) Bernard Rentier, the Rector at Liège, has posted an English translation of his November memo to the Liège faculty on the AmSci OA Forum. Excerpt:
...Here below is the English translation of the message I have sent to the whole University Community on November 26, 2008. I believe that, rather than a lengthy explanation of how the Liège mandate works, this message tells it all much better. It can perhaps be useful as well for those who wish to find a way to obtain compliance within their universities. It demonstrates also that the Liège Mandate is indeed IDOA/DDR (Immediate-Deposit/Optional- Access -- Dual Deposit/Release), to use the latest definitions coined in this forum.
Happy New Year to all !
Bernard Rentier
----------
"Madame, Monsieur, Cher(e) Collègue,
The increase in international visibility of the ULg [Université de Liège] and its researchers, mainly through their publications, as well as the support for the worldwide development of an open and free access to scientific works (Open Access) are two essential objectives at the heart of my action, as you probably know.
At my request, the Institutional Repository "ORBi" (Open Repository & Bibliography) has been set up at the ULg by the Libraries Network to meet these objectives.
[1] The experimental encoding phase based on volunteerism being now successfully completed, we can step forward and enter the "production phase" this Wednesday November 26th, 2008. I take this opportunity to thank all the professors and researchers who have already filed in ORBi hundreds of their references, 70% of them with the full text. Thanks to their patience, ORBi's fine tuning could be achieved. From today on, it is incumbent upon each ULg member to feed ORBi with his/her own references. In this respect, the Administrative Board of the University has decided to make it mandatory for all ULg members:
- to deposit the bibliographic references of ALL their publications since 2002;
- to deposit the integral text of ALL their articles published in periodicals since 2002. Access to these full texts will only be granted with the author's consent and according to the rules applicable to author's rights and copyrights. The University is indeed very keen on respecting the rights of all stakeholders.
[2] For future publications, deposit in ORBi will be mandatory as soon as the article is accepted by the editor.
[3] I wish to remind you that, as announced a year in March 2007, starting October 1st, 2009 only those references introduced in ORBi will be taken into consideration as the official list of publications accompanying any curriculum vitæ in all evaluation procedures 'in house' (designations, promotions, grant applications, etc.)....
Comments
Update. Also see the license (in French or Google's English) that Liege will use for articles on deposit in the IR.
Peter Hirtle, When is a published work not a publication? Library Law Blog, January 4, 2009. Excerpt:
...As I discuss in footnote 12 of the copyright duration chart...a ruling in the Twin Books v Walt Disney case in the 9th Circuit (covering the western states) contradicts what everyone else assumes. In Twin Books, the court concluded that if a foreign work did not follow the requirements to secure copyright protection in the US, the work did not therefore enter the public domain in the US, but instead remained in effect unpublished for the purposes of US copyright law....
[A recent case, Societe Civile Succession Richard Guino v Renoir, criticized Twin Books without overturning it.]
The decision makes it much, much harder to determine whether a book published abroad is in the public domain....
eMJA, the online edition of the TA Medical Journal of Australia, is retreating from OA. From the announcement:
Commencing from the first issue in January 2009, access to general content excluding research papers will become limited to subscribed users only. Research papers will be open to access for 14 days following publication then closed for subscriber only access until 12 months after publication....
From Martin B. Van Der Weyden's editorial in the January 2009 issue:
The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA)...is available on subscription and is included as part of the membership package of the [Australian Medical Association (AMA)]. Since 2001, [the Australasian Medical Publishing Company (AMPCo)] has published an Internet version of the MJA (eMJA) to which readers have enjoyed free open access since its inception.
The eMJA now contains 6350 pages of valuable information, which, while formidable, unfortunately comes with increasing production and maintenance costs. Because of these essential costs, the Board of AMPCo has decided that, commencing with the first MJA issue in 2009, access to certain content in the eMJA will require a subscription. In this move, the MJA will follow the steps taken by other prestigious medical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the Annals of Internal Medicine (the journal of the American College of Physicians), the BMJ and The Lancet.
Much information, including all previously published articles, current editions of In This Issue, plus guidelines, position statements and supplements, will remain on open access. Research articles will be freely accessible online for 2 weeks following publication, after which a subscription will be required. Twelve months after publication, all articles will revert to open access. This policy will be continually reviewed. Naturally, open access will be provided for any articles we consider to be of urgent public health importance....
Thanks to David More for the alert and this comment:
First if the MJA thinks it is of similar prestige to the Annals, JAMA, the BMJ or Lancet it is smoking a very strong brew of something which I suspect is not legal.
Second we now find Australia lacks an open professional platform for discussion of Health Policy – with the possible exception of the site run by John Menadue’s Centre for Policy Development (CPD)....
Third closing a professional health publications is a retrograde step in an era when we are working to improve information flows in health.
Last we will now find the Journal will become a journal for members, by members and its quality and relevance will inevitably decline I believe.
Given how rich and well funded the AMA is – a bit sad really....
PS: SHERPA has no info on whether MJA or eMJA has a green policy on OA archiving. The MJA instructions for authors page suggests not: "All authors are asked to transfer copyright to AMPCo before publication. Accepted manuscripts may not be published elsewhere, in whole or in part, without written permission from the Australasian Medical Publishing Company (AMPCo) Ltd."
The Journal of Science Communication has adopted the CC-NC-ND license, starting with the December 2008 issue. Previously, the journal was OA but didn't use an open license. (Thanks to Alessandro Delfanti.)
Catherine Saez, Project Underway To Convert High Energy Physics Literature To Open Access, Intellectual Property Watch, January 5, 2009. Excerpt:
...The [high-energy physics (HEP)] community pioneered open access through “repositories” containing collections of pre-prints freely accessible on the internet....
However, peer-review, which verifies the quality of an article submitted for publication, is not performed in repositories....
High-quality HEP journals are essential for the community, because the journals provide the peer-review service....
A new model for open access publishing has emerged, aiming to convert the entire body of HEP literature to open access. The publisher’s subscription income from multiple institutions would be replaced by income from a single financial partner: the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3)....
According to the model, partners from all countries contributing to HEP literature would become members of the consortium....
At this time, most European countries have agreed to participate, so did 44 US partners. Turkey, Israel and Australia have also joined the consortium. Discussions are in progress with several countries in Asia, such as India, China and Japan, said Vigen. While about 50 percent of the funds have been pledged, the consortium will not start approaching the publishers officially yet. “We need to have important players on board, like Japan and China, before going to the publishers,” he said.
Although formal discussions with the publishers have not officially started, the consortium indicates that publishers show a pro-active attitude of support to open access in HEP. Publishers would benefit from a more sustainable model and researchers will have a broad access to peer-reviewed articles, according to the SCOAP3 working party....
Once the process of securing the budget and negotiations are achieved, the consortium will establish governance and become active. It will be run by CERN. According to Vigen, “CERN management has offered that CERN runs the consortium as an in-kind contribution to the consortium, no charges will be carried by members.”
The consortium is expecting an impending launch. “The timeframe for launching the consortium is linked to the negotiations with potential partners, mainly in Asia, in order to have a global distribution of partners, but hopefully it will be launched in 2009,” said Vigen.
Once it reaches critical mass, SCOAP3 will be formally established and its governance put in place. SCOAP3 will then issue its call for tender to publishers, in order to assess the exact cost of its operation, and then move forward with negotiating and placing contracts with publishers....
If the SCOAP3 project is successful, all articles published within the SCOAP3 framework will be copied and stored in [the] INSPIRE [OA repository], which then will store both pre-prints and peer-reviewed articles.
SHERPA has made two changes to its list of publishers "allow[ing] authors to deposit the publisher version or PDF of their article in an Institutional Repository, without fee or an embargo."
Hi,
Is it possible to stop the
<br /> tag being inserted in the html before the {{#formlink...}} generated
html?
(I am using SF 1.2.3, SMW 1.3, and MW 1.13.0)
Thanks
Alex
Was just searching through the Herd, and default commands
and was really wondering why there are not any "browser"
commands? Such as:
- history
- back / forward / home / refresh / page-down / page-up
- bookmark / print
- preferences
- delete-cache
- turn on / off plugins and themes
- fullscreen
- downloads
We've just put up a Ubiquity Planet <[link]>.
This should make it easier to keep up with the various happenings.
The really neat thing is that it uses WordPress as a backend (via the
FeedWordPress plugin). That means that anyone who wants to get involved with
it can. If you are interested, send an email to contributor Zach Lym <
About 3,000 years ago when I started freethepostcode, little did I know that soon everyone would be using giPhones… and that the McKerrellmeister would write an app for your iPhone 3G which lets you upload postcodes using the iPhone built-in GPS. Check it out.
I've experienced problem with transparency on linux with all version from
0.1.3 to 0.2pre2
After the last refactoring on skin stuffs I think that the workaround
present in
the browser.js is now obsolete (because all new skins use
trasparent-msg-panel :-P)
This is my 2sec. workaround patch from my working local version... on linux
GetImages 0.2.3 is available. The API used by it stopped working some
weeks ago: now the command is back, based on the official Google's
API. Check it out!
Bye,
--
JimmY2K.
Hi all
I'm not quite familiar with the pluggin usage of tesseract in my own
project.
Including the tesseract's .dll ifle is enough to envoke its functions
or not?
Is there any GUI version of tesseract available?
3ks ahead
Hi,
I have added support for using preference for default language rather
than hard coding it to English.
([link])
I have posted the patch in trac ticket. Could someone take a look at
it ?
Thanks
pvncad
Unearthed Outdoors has released an OA, CC Attribution-licensed version of its dataset of earth satellite imagery. (Thanks to Boing Boing.)
The Bernard Becker Medical Library at the Washington University School of Medicine has posted a flowchart on How to Demonstrate Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. The process is specific to WU but could serve as an example for other institutions. (Thanks to Jim Till.)
Dorothea Salo, Name authority control in institutional repositories, Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, forthcoming in April 2009; self-deposited January 2, 2009. Abstract:
Neither the standards nor the software underlying institutional repositories anticipated performing name authority control on widely disparate metadata from highly unreliable sources. Without it, though, both machines and humans are stymied in their efforts to access and aggregate information by author. Many organizations are awakening to the problems and possibilities of name authority control, but without better coordination, their efforts will only confuse matters further. Local heuristics-based name-disambiguation software may help those repository managers who can implement it. For the time being, however, most repository managers can only control their own name lists as best they can after deposit while they advocate for better systems and services.
Nicholas Tomaiuolo, U-Content: Project Gutenberg, Me, and You, Searcher, January 2009. A first-person tale of preparing submissions for Project Gutenberg and an interview with PG founder Michael Hart.
Hi,
I heard about Ubiquity last week and had great fun hacking some
commands together over the last few days. I think Ubiquity is one of
the most interesting concepts I've seen in the browser world for a
while, and I found the ease with which I could get started a real
plus. My hearty thanks to everyone involved :-)
Jeffrey Mervis, NSF Rethinks Its Digital Library, Science Magazine, January 2, 2009. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) Accessible only to subscribers. Excerpt:
...[The] NSF’s National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL) program...was launched in 2000 to help scientists and science educators tap into the rapidly expanding online world. Since then, the foundation has spent about $175 million “to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels.” In practice, that has meant three things: creating and maintaining a Web site with a vast assortment of peer-reviewed materials, including lesson plans, videos, lectures, examples, and teacher guides; providing support for more than a dozen disciplinary and sector-based portals, called Pathways, that offer suitable content to NSDL; and funding individual research projects...that are aimed at helping researchers and educators make better use of online learning....
Because NSDL serves several different purposes, the payoff from NSF’s investment, which has averaged almost $18 million a year...has been hard to quantify. Its biggest advocates admit that relatively few educators and researchers have even heard of NSDL, much less visited the Web site or contributed material....
Although NSF officials insist that NSDL has been a success, the agency is in the process of reducing its support for digital libraries. Last year, the initialism NSDL was redefined as the National Science Distributed Learning program and subsumed under a new, broader cyberlearning initiative for which digital libraries are only a small component. In September, NSF cut its support to the organizations that manage NSDL by more than half and described the new round of funding as a “rampdown … toward self-sufficiency.” The consortia operating the various Pathway portals say they don’t expect to get another bite of the apple. In 2007, NSF ended its funding of DLESE, a digital library for earth system education that is separate from NSDL but serves as an informal pathway for the earth sciences community....
I have several very similar commands. So I'd like to make a base
command with shared functionality, and the rest of commands should
“inherit” from it.
Test code:
var MyCommands = {};
MyCommands['stub-command'] = {
author: {
name: "Eugene Janusov",
email: "esy...@gmail.com"
},
