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State of the Map is alive and well
by puneet-kishor Uncategorized postAbout 400 map makers, coders, cartographers, designers, business services providers and data mungers of chiefly spatial persuasion gathered in San Francisco to “talk OpenStreetMap, learn from each other, and move the project forward.” These conference attendees are a tip of an iceberg composed of 1.1 million registered users who have collectively gathered 3.2 billion GPS…
Doubling down on Markdown for science
by puneet-kishor Uncategorized postScientific authoring workflow is a beast. You keep notes on paper (hopefully, a notebook, and not just loose pages), in word-processing documents unhelpfully named “notes” followed by “notes1,” “notes2” or worse, “notes_old,” “notes_old1.” You manage your bibliography on your desktop or on the web, you have a directory folder full of images, charts, photos and…
CC Board Meeting: New Directions and Opportunities
by Paul Brest Uncategorized postOn Saturday, April 27, the Creative Commons Board of Directors met at the Safra Center at Harvard. We discussed the accomplishments of the past 12 months, both in the organization and in the broader open movement, and the new opportunities on the horizon, including creating an Advisory Council to complement the Board itself. The State…
New Regional Coordinators for CC in Europe
by jessica Uncategorized postJohn Weitzmann / DTKindler / CC BY Gwen Franck / Gwen Franck / All Rights Reserved I am very happy to introduce our two new European Regional Coordinators – John Weitzmann and Gwen Franck. Creative Commons has volunteer teams in over 70 countries, including 35 in Europe, all of whom work to support and promote…
New Annual Report and Strategy Document
by elliot About CC postCreative Commons has grown tremendously since we started. As we approached the milestone of our 10th birthday, and with a new CEO on board, we began an intensive review of our progress and priorities. Sometimes you need to use big milestones to stop and see where you are, and occasionally you find that decisions made…
California public access bill moves to Assembly floor vote
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postAfter passing through the Assembly Appropriations Committee last week (with bipartisan support), California’s Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act (AB 609) will now reach the Assembly floor for a vote this week. If the proposed bill passes the Assembly, it will move to the California State Senate. To recap, AB 609 would require that…
Deciphering licensing in Project Open Data
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postTwo weeks ago we wrote about the U.S. Executive Order and announcement of Project Open Data, an open source project (managed on Github) that lays out the implementation details behind behind the President’s Executive Order and memo. The project offers more information on open licenses, and gives examples of acceptable licenses for U.S. federal data.…
Obama issues Executive Order in support of open data
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postFree Wikipedia course offered through the School of Open
by Jane Park Uncategorized postHave you ever looked at an article on Wikipedia and thought, “this could really use some work”? With the free online course “Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond,” offered through the School of Open, you have the opportunity to take the next step. In the course, you will learn about both the technical and…
LRMI Accepted into Schema.org
by Cable Green Open Education postThe Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) specification (14 properties) has been accepted and published as a part of Schema.org, the collaboration between major search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex (press release). This marks the culmination of a year’s worth of open collaboration with the LRMI Technical Working Group and the wider education publishing community.…