Harvard's annual cost for journals from these providers now approaches $3.75M. In 2010, the comparable amount accounted for more than 20% of all periodical subscription costs, and just under 10% of all collection costs for everything the Library acquires.

"I should make it clear that I am all for open access, but I also worry that it is a distraction from the larger challenge of developing meaningful public engagement with research."

aka "I am all for women's rights, but I also worry that it is a distraction from the larger challenge of climate change."

Xv6 is a teaching operating system developed in the summer of 2006 for MIT's operating systems course, 6.828: operating systems Engineering. We hope that xv6 will be useful in other courses too. This page collects resources to aid the use of xv6 in other courses, including a commentary on the source code itself.

graph database interface for Java

TinkerPop’s Blueprints 1.2+ makes it easy to build multitenant, graph-based applications. Blueprints is a graph database interface similar to the JDBC of the relational database community. Blueprints is supported by various graph databases including TinkerGraph, Neo4j, OrientDB, DEX, and InfiniteGraph. In addition to providing a standard graph interface, Blueprints includes a collection of graph wrappers. A graph wrapper takes an existing graph implementation, such as Neo4jGraph, and decorates it with new features. For example, wrapping a graph implementation with ReadOnlyGraph prevents graph mutations.

stories for libraries about why you'd open your data up

There are many potential sources of such data:

Institutions produce collection catalogues, show listings, attendance figures, and organisational information.
Writings by artists, critics, theorists and historians can be processed to provide institutional and market data, to discover factual information, or for affective and aesthetic analysis.
Records of art auction prices have been kept for hundreds of years, with older records freely available.
Biographical information about artists can be extracted from digitised historical sources and from modern sources such as Wikipedia.
Institutional, historical and market data about artworks can build up a picture of its production, reception, and provenance.
Reproductions of artworks can be analysed algorithmically or socially.

paragraph-specific anchor links and the ability to highlight text in articles and blog posts

Niftyurls is a popurls-style script built entirely with Django.

The message is pretty clear. If you want to reduce the effectiveness and impact of the work you’re doing, if you want to limit the people you can reach, then use restrictive terms. If you want our work to reach people and to maximise the chance it has to make a difference, make it clear and easy for people to understand that they are encouraged to copy, share, and cite your work. Be open. Make a difference.

science publication landscape changing. PLoS ONE copied by NPG for a new venture, "Scientific Reports". Instead of charging for access, it charges article authors (as PLoS does). Seeing a major publisher move this way, argues Neylon, signals the eventual demise of borderline-profitable small journals and the success of the author-pays model.

google app engine datastore implementation on hbase and hadoop

ibrary that talks the protocols to support iPhone®, iPod Touch®, iPad® and Apple TV® devices

first openly licensed publication. Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace brings together the background papers and reports from the first three years of activities in the UNESCO OER Community. online access & print for sale.

"Also, we’ve quickly realised that you are often working with something akin to 6 different interlocking jigsaw puzzles, each missing 20% of the most crucial bits"

One arguement against raw data came out of the woodwork during the successful push to get the US Senate to offer mashup-friendly XML (extensible markup language) feeds for Senate voting history. "The secretary of the Senate has cited a general standing policy," John Wonderlich, policy director at Sunlight, told Politico's Victoria McGrane, "that they're not supposed to present votes in a comparative format, that senators have the right to present their votes however they want to."

“If the Recovery Act is to fulfill President Obama’s promise about taxpayers being able to go online and see how every dime is spent, then we need sub-recipients’ and sub-sub recipients’ data online, too,”

discover who gets what from the Common Fisheries Policy

"ownership" of government information is a thorny question unless you have an ideology that makes it easy ("of course it's not owned by the government, it's taxpayer's information -- we paid for it!" vs "of course it's owned by the government, how else can they justify selling it?").

This is your place to report where government data is locked up by design, neglect or misapplication of technology. We want you to point out the government data that you need or would like to have. Get involved!

My baby

By March 2009, the British Library will have digitised 3 million historic newspapers with JISC funds, and this content will be available to readers for free in reading rooms and on a paid for basis online, or via subscriptions. The Library is investigating a similar model going forward with a private sector partner who is willing to digitise and sell online out of copyright newspapers from the BL's collection for a fixed period. This will provide digital content for customers in reading rooms, free at the point of access.

The first part is a new batch of YQL tables providing data on the U.S. government, earthquake data, and the non-profit micro-lender Kiva. The second part is an incredibly easy way to render YQL queries on websites. After all, what good is data that no one can see?

Circos is designed for visualizing genomic data such as alignments, conservation, and generalized 2D data, such as line, scatter, heatmap and histogram plots. Circos is very flexible — you can use it to visualize any kind of data, not just genomics. Circos has been used to visualize customer flow in the auto industry, volume of courier shipments, database schemas, and presidential debates.

SDMX is an initiative to foster standards for the exchange of statistical information.

Public Health Intelligence

Quite a stunning accomplishment! A simple SQL-like interface to all public Yahoo! APIs. I wonder whether it's something people would use for real, though, or whether it's just a "simple and once you're hooked you'll be using the individual APIs" gentle introduction.

I don't buy the argument that duplication is bad. I buy the argument that free shitty data isn't as good as free quality data, and the market in NZ is not big enough to make this a business worth protecting, as the repeated near-death of terralink shows. At this point I agree that LINZ ought to have a clearly-defined public-facing mandate for quality data.

history and future of Public Library of Science, the open journal

from Victoria state government in Australia

"Sir John Sulston...won a Nobel Prize for his work on nematode worms/apoptosis, and seems certain to share another for his work on the Human Genome Project...lead the forces that kept the human genome free/unpatented think of him as the RMS of the genome"

beginning to think about this as a key enabler of web-type innovation in physical domain products

From wifi and bluetooth it gathers evidence, you provide rules to weight the evidence towards probable location.

genbank as first open data pile

GPLv3 improved antenna design

free college level textbooks. This is good for universities. Are there CC sites for primary age classroom materials? I wonder what can be done to simplify those teachers' coursework development.

open education: materials, training for educators, policies.