Archive pour May 2011
links for 2011-05-25
Thursday 26 May 2011-
“This year WIKIPEDIA celebrated its 10th anniversary – a great occasion to honor what a lot of people achieved together and to ensure the continued existence of WIKIPEDIA as a platform of free knowledge.
It all began with a simple idea:
“What if everyone was given free access to the sum of all human knowledge?†Within the last 10 years, this seemingly utopian idea has resulted in nothing less than the largest collection of human knowledge ever created. Independent, unrestrictedly accessible, and non-commercial.
This achievement made WIKIPEDIA a pioneer of cultural change because WIKIPEDIA transferred the tradition of knowledge exchange into the new, digital age. Thus creating a unique place of knowledge exchange in the history of civilization.
This is why as a cross-border cultural achievement, WIKIPEDIA deserves recognition and protection as UNESCO’s first digital World Cultural Heritage Site. If you share this opinion, we appeal for you to sign the petition.”
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“The free encyclopedia anyone can edit is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2011. Events and online activities have been organized to commemorate the day, and all year long.[…]”
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“In its 10 years of existence, Wikipedia, the global online encyclopedia, has amassed an archive of 18 million entries in 279 languages. It is one of the 10 most popular Web sites on the Internet. But is the volunteer-driven data depository an endangered world cultural treasure worthy of protection, like French cuisine, the Argentine tango or the Grand Canyon?
That is the long-shot bet being made by Wikipedia, which plans to begin a global petition drive Tuesday to earn a spot on one of the world heritage lists of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. […]”
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“Google’s ambitious effort to digitize the world’s newspaper archives and make them available online has come to an end.
The project launched in 2008, and it currently has digitized material from what looks like about 2,000 newspapers […] Users can continue to search digitized newspapers at http://news.google.com/archivesearch, but we don’t plan to introduce any further features or functionality to the Google News Archives and we are no longer accepting new microfilm or digital files for processing.[…]” -
“[…]Then there's Hargreaves's proposal that, in future, British lawmaking on intellectual property should be “evidence-based”. As opposed to what, asks the legal scholar James Boyle: “Astrology-based?” But our lawmaking in this area has been so weird that the idea that we might try rationality for a change seems genuinely radical.
Hargreaves is also very good on the thorny problem of “orphan” works – works still technically in copyright but for which no rights-holder can be traced. He wants the government to legislate to enable the licensing of these works – a commonsensical idea but one that in the insane world of IP lawyers sounds like revolutionary talk.[…]”
links for 2011-05-24
Wednesday 25 May 2011-
“[…]Recently, the MIT Libraries conducted a needs assessment for determining what improvements they should make to their online tools. The assessment states explicitly “Since the students often started their information seeking outside of the Libraries' web space, it would make sense to continue to find ways to put links, tools and MIT Libraries metadata in widely popular web sites, search engines, and databases that lead our community back to resources available to them in the Libraries”[…] CQFD
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“The Library of Congress is launching a review of the bibliographic framework to better accommodate future needs. A major focus of the initiative will be to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 exchange format in order to reap the benefits of newer technology while preserving a robust data exchange that has supported resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in recent decades. This work will be carried out in consultation with the format's formal partners — Library and Archives Canada and the British Library — and informal partners — the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and other national libraries, the agencies that provide library services and products, the many MARC user institutions, and the MARC advisory committees such as the MARBI committee of ALA, the Canadian Committee on MARC, and the BIC Bibliographic Standards Group in the UK.
This web site will be the official location for information, announcements, and resources related to this initiative.[…]”
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“Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books. By July 2010, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com. Today, less than four years after introducing Kindle books, Amazon.com customers are now purchasing more Kindle books than all print books - hardcover and paperback - combined.[…]”
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“Amazons gratis Kindle Lese-Apps jetzt auch auf Deutsch erhältlich – einmal gekauft, sind eBooks damit überall zu lesen
Tausende deutscher Klassiker gratis für Kindle verfügbar
Luxemburg, 21. April 2011 – Amazon.de eröffnet heute seinen Kindle-Shop (www.amazon.de/kindlebuecher) und bietet nun die größte Auswahl an eBooks in ganz Deutschland. Der Shop umfasst insgesamt über 650.000 Titel, darunter 71 der 100 Spiegel-Bestseller, mehr als 25.000 deutschsprachige Bücher und Tausende deutscher Klassiker, die nur für Kindle gratis zum Download verfügbar sind. Amazon gibt auch bekannt, dass erstmals deutschsprachige gratis Kindle Lese-Apps für die beliebtesten Endgeräte erhältlich sind: iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac sowie android-basierte Endgeräte. Einmal gekauft, können eBooks damit überall gelesen werden. Zudem bietet Amazon auf vielfachen Kundenwunsch die neuesten Kindle-Modelle, Kindle sowie Kindle 3G, jeweils mit englischsprachiger Benutzerführung direkt über Amazon.de an.[…]”
links for 2011-05-23
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Thursday 19 May 2011
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Saturday 14 May 2011
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Wednesday 11 May 2011
links for 2011-05-09
Tuesday 10 May 2011-
Un exemple concret de conversion d'une base de données bibliographique en format RDF, ou plutôt d'une partie car ils ont exclut d'emblée toutes les informations qui pourraient poser problème au niveau des droits (abstract, citations, etc.) mais c'est déjà un test intéressant car il y en a plus de 20 millons de références qui peuvent produire plus de 100 millons de triplets…