"Roy Kady, with Diné bé iiná, said that the selling of songs, stories and other intellectual property by some is a matter of economics. – "A lot of people are poor," Kady said. "The only way they can make money is selling their knowledge." – "Anytime in
The ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) project is an ongoing research effort focusing on applying empirical techniques in order to provide portable performance. At present, it provides C and Fortran77 interfaces to a portably efficient BLAS implementation, as well as a few routines from LAPACK.
Anders Ericson om "Genero", dvs planen på ett nytt register över litterära, konstnärliga, journalistiska osv. verk. Via registret skulle upphovsmännen ställa sina verk till distributörernas förfogande på lika villkor; ingen distributör skulle få exklusi
"We want a public library system in the digital age, but what we are getting is a private library system controlled by a single corporation," Brewster Kahle said
Google scannt weltweit Bücher und verärgert damit Verlage und Autoren. In den USA haben sich die Parteien geeinigt. In Deutschland fühlen sich die Publizisten übergangen
TG-Gallium3D is a hardware- and API- neutral intermediate format that will allow Tungsten Graphics to efficiently build graphics drivers to support a variety of hardware platforms for modern 3D APIs on various OS environments.
In Race Men, feminist critic Hazel V. Carby produces a text that contains generally unsympathetic renderings of the cultural productions of black male intellectuals and artists.
Kulturutredningen överlämnar betänkande Ordförande Eva Swartz Grimaldi med ledamöterna Jonas Anderson, Birgitta Englin, Rasoul Nejadmehr och Mats Sjöstrand överlämnar torsdagen den 12 februari kl. 10.00 – 11.00 Kulturutredningens betänkande till kulturmin
Public Goods and the Public Domain: The Access to Knowledge in Developing Countries, and Innovation in Health, Education and Science. Forero Pineda, Clemente. 2004. The Digital Library of the Commons. University of Indiana
ISO 2146 (Registry Services for Libraries and Related Organisations) is an international standard currently under development by ISO TC46 SC4 WG7 to operate as a framework for building registry services for libraries and related organisations. It takes the form of an information model that identifies the objects and data elements needed for the collaborative construction of registries of all types. It is not bound to any specific protocol or data schema. The aim is to be as abstract as possible, in order to facilitate a shared understanding of the common processes involved, across multiple communities of practice.
Libraries do something they call "name authority control". For most people in IT, this would be called "assigning unique identifiers to names." Identifying authors is considered one of the essential aspects of library cataloging, and it isn't done in any other bibliographic environment, as far as I know.
VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File
VIAF is a joint project of the Library of Congress (LC), the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), and OCLC. The project's goal is to match and link the library authority files.
The search box at the top of this page searches a prototype of VIAF, which is derived from the personal name authority and related bibliographic data of LC, DNB, and BnF. Matches are shown as links between records (in MARC-21 998 fields).
More information can be found at the OCLC Research VIAF Project page.
The second worldwide review of the Functional Requirements for Authority Data was completed in mid-2007. The Working Group is completing work in a new draft which incorporates comments received during the review. When complete, the draft will be submitted to Division IV for approval.
In the meantime, the draft used in the second worldwide review remains available. Readers of the document should be aware that there will be many changes in the final version.
Kulturelles Gedächtnis muss gesichert werden Verschwundene Personen, verwaiste Links: Die Chefin der British Library, Lynne Brindley, fordert größere Anstrengungen zur Archivierung digitaler Dokumente zur Zeitgeschichte. Andernfalls drohe in absehbarer Zukunft ein digitaler Gedächtnisschwund tragischen Ausmaßes.
JWKTL is a Java-based API that enables efficient programmatic access to
the information contained in the English and German language editions of
Wiktionary:
* glosses
* part of speech
* etymology
* examples
* quotations
* references
* word language
* translations
* internal and external links
* categories
* related words
* antonyms, holonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, synonyms,
troponyms, "see also" terms, characteristic word combinations,
coordinate terms, derived terms, descendants, etymologically related terms
"Under the terms of the agreement, articles
by UC-affiliated authors accepted for
publication in a Springer journal beginning in 2009 will be published
using Springer Open Choice with full and immediate open access. There
will be no separate per-article charges, since costs have been factored
into the overall license
OpenBiblio is an easy to use, automated library system written in PHP containing OPAC, circulation, cataloging, and staff administration functionality.
A quel moment l’identifiant devient-il indiscret en révélant les goûts, les lectures, les recherches, les projets ou les déplacements de celui qu’il désigne ? Quels processus conduisent à l’élaboration d’une identité numérique plus ou moins maîtrisée, plus ou moins voulue, quand le web2.0 nous pousse à nous révéler toujours plus ? Quel rôle ont à jouer les médiateurs de l’information et de la connaissance pour prévenir les risques d’abus, construire une juste identification et former les usagers à contrôler leur identité sur les réseaux ? Comme chaque année, la Fulbi invite des professionnels des bibliothèques ou de la documentation, des chercheurs, des consultants et des éditeurs à échanger sur ce thème qui, au delà de la question technique, nous interroge sur la place de l’individu dans le monde numérique.