Seit knapp einem Jahr steht die Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek als Betaversion online, seit Montag nun bietet sie auch eine API an. Über die Schnittstelle können Entwickler Daten aus dem Katalog der DDB auslesen und für weitere Anwendungen verwenden. Was in der Welt der Softwareprojekte und Plattformen kaum erwähnenswert wäre – die pure Existenz einer Schnittstelle […]

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GBIF is asking for views on how it should license of data in the GBIF network. The full consultation document is available from Google Drive and DropBox.

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Last Saturday I went to Hack4Ac – a hackday in London bringing together many sections of the academic community in pursuit of two goals: To demonstrate the value of the CC-BY licence within academia. We are interested in supporting innovations around and on top of the literature. To reach out to academics who are keen to learn or improve their programming skills to better their research.

Das Überwachungsprogramm Prism zeitigt weltweit Reaktionen, das EU-Parlament hat die novellierte Richtlinie für Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors beschlossen, ein Filehoster kann als Gehilfe einer Urheberrechtsverletzung handeln. Außerdem im Wochenrückblick: Telekom-Drosselung, Vorratsdaten am EuGH, Amazon-Doku. Weltweite Reaktionen auf Prism Die Internetüberwachung durch die USA ruft weiterhin weltweit ein großes Echo hervor.

This post was originally posted over at the LSE Impact blog where I was kindly invited to write on this theme by the Managing Editor. It’s a widely read platform and I hope it inspires some academics to upload more of their work for everyone to read and use Recently I tried to explain on twitter in a few tweets how everyone can take easy steps towards open scholarship with their own work.

My final repost today (edited) from the Open Knowledge Foundation blog. It’s a little old, originally posted on the 16th of April, 2013 but I think it definitely deserves to be here on my blog as a record of my activities… So… it’s over.

In the last 2 weeks I’ve given talks in Brussels & Amsterdam. The first one was given during a European Commission (Brussels) working group meeting on Text & Data Mining. There were perhaps only ~30 people in the room for that. The second presentation was given just a few days ago at Beyond The PDF 2 (#btpdf2) in Amsterdam.

Few things have annoyed be as much as the following post on TAXACOM: I'm trying to work out why this seemingly innocuous post made me so mad. I think this is because I think this fundamentally framing the question the wrong way. Surely the goal is to have a list of names that is global in scope, well documented, and freely usable by all without restriction? Surely we want open and free access to fundamental biodiversity data?

Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft könnten von offenen Daten profitieren, wirbt Ökonom Rufus Pollock im Interview mit iRights.info. Man müsse aber genau zwischen wirklich offenen und nur geteilten, öffentlich einsehbaren Daten unterscheiden. Es zeichne sich eine Trendwende zu mehr offenen Daten ab. Zur Person: Rufus Pollock ist Ökonom und einer der Gründer und Leiter der Open Knowledge Foundation.