Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Participation - Economies of the Commons 2: Paying the costs of making things free - 12-13 November, Amsterdam
The conference sounds very interesting. Will the talks be webcast or archived for viewing for those of us who won't be able to attend in person? Thanks, -Raymond On 10/27/10 10:04 AM, Johan Oomen wrote: Economies of the Commons 2 - Paying the costs of making things free www.ecommons.eu International conference, seminar and public evening programs Conference dates: 12-13 November 2010. De Balie, Amsterdam Pre-conference: November 11. Hilversum (on collaboration with the Open Video Alliance) Economies of the Commons 2 is a critical examination of the economics of on-line public domain and open access resources of information, knowledge, and media (the Œdigital commons¹). The past 10 years have seen the rise of a variety of such open content resources attracting millions of users, sometimes on a daily basis. The impact of projects such as Wikipedia, Images of the Future, and Europeana testify to the vibrancy of the new digital public domain. No longer left to the exclusive domains of digital Œinsiders¹, open content resources are rapidly becoming widely used and highly popular. While protagonists of open content praise its low-cost accessibility and collaborative structures, critics claim it undermines the established ³gate keeping² functions of authors, the academy, and professional institutions while lacking a reliable business model of its own. Economies of the Commons 2 provides a timely and crucial analysis of sustainable economic models that can promote and safeguard the online public domain. We want to find out what the new hybrid solutions are for archiving, access and reuse of on-line content that can both create viable markets and serve the public interest in a competitive global 21st century information economy. Economies of the Commons 2 consists of an international seminar on Open Video hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on November 11 in Hilversum, a two day international conference and two public evening programs on November 12 and 13 at De Balie, centre for culture and politics in Amsterdam. The event builds upon the successful Economies of the Commons conference organised in April 2008. Confirmed speakers include: Charlotte Hess (Syracuse University Keynote), Ben Moskowitz (Open Video Alliance), Simona Levi (Free Culture Forum), Bas Savenije (KB National library of the Netherlands), Yann Moulier Boutang (Multitudes), Peter B. Kaufman (Intelligent Television), Harry Verwayen (Europeana), James Boyle (Duke University), Jeff Ubois (DTN), Sandra Fauconnier (NIMK), Dymitri Kleiner (Telekommunisten), Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (Royal Library Denmark), Nathaniel Tkacz (University of Melbourne), a.o. Organisers: Images for the Future Consortium / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision / De Balie / Institute of Network Cultures, University of Amsterdam. For detailed program information check our website: www.ecommons.eu
Re: [CODE4LIB] #thatcampsf
Hi Eric, I was at THATCamp SF last weekend. Any particular area you are interested in? I co-presented with Roy Tennant a bootcamp on the OCLC WorldCat APIs (and web APIs in general). I also got a chance to talk to a small group of people about building a website around the music of J. S. Bach. There are various notes at http://www.thatcampbayarea.org/ For me personally, I enjoyed the social interactions and learned quite a bit about natural language processing through conversations. -Raymond On 10/12/10 7:21 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: I believe a couple of us attended #THATCampSF. It sounded interesting. Could y'all share some of your take-aways?
Re: [CODE4LIB] Safari extensions
Has anyone given thought to how hard it would be to port Firefox extensions such as LibX and Zotero to Chrome or Safari? (Am I the only one finding Firefox to be very slow compared to Chrome?) -Raymond On 8/5/10 1:10 PM, Godmar Back wrote: No, nothing beyond a quick read-through. The architecture is similar to Google Chrome's - which is perhaps not surprising given that both Safari and Chrome are based on WebKit - which for us at LibX means we should be able to leverage the redesign we did for LibX 2.0. A notable characteristic of this architecture is that content scripts that interact with a page are in a separate OS process from the main extensions' code, thus they have to communicate with the main extension via message passing rather than by exploiting direct method calls as in Firefox. - Godmar On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Eric Hellmane...@hellman.net wrote: Has anyone played with the new Safari extensions capability? I'm looking at you, Godmar. Eric Hellman President, Gluejar, Inc. 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 Montclair, NJ 07042 USA e...@hellman.net http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ @gluejar
Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?
Having COinS embedded in the Open Library would be useful. Zotero would have made use of such COinS -- but because they were absent, a custom translator was written to grab the bibliographic metadata from OL. -Raymond Karen Coyle wrote: I have a question to ask for the Open Library folks and I couldn't quite figure out where to ask it. This seems like a good place. Would it be useful to embed COinS in the book pages of the Open Library? Does anyone think they might make use of them? Thanks, kc
[CODE4LIB] Richardson and Ruby's *Restful Web Services* (was Re: [CODE4LIB] good web service api)
I have to agree with Alex -- Ruby and Richardson's book *Restful Web Services* (RWS for short) is well-worth reading if you are setting out to create a good web service API. I'm working through the book myself right now and would love to discuss the book here if there is any interest. For example, to the point that we should refrain from the notion of an API. I'm trying to understand how far we can really fold the human user interface and the machine machine interface into one -- instead of having the UI and the API as fairly distinct things. I've not had a chance to actually try for myself the extended examples given in the book of a social bookmarking system. Does the example provide for both the human and machine interfaces all in one? -Raymond Alexander Johannesen wrote: On 6/30/07, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the characteristics of a good Web Service API? That you refrain from the notion of an API. :) Seriously, before you do anything, read the book Restful WebServices by Sam Ruby and Leonard Richardson (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260/). I'd do it the ROA way (and have for some time; resource oriented architecture), but I do understand it puts certain strain on the areas of the brain responsible for learning conceptually new things. Alex -- --- Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchymist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps -- http://shelter.nu/blog/ -- -- Raymond Yee, Ph.D. 102 South Hall Visiting ScholarUC Berkeley School of Information Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.dataunbound.com http://blog.mashupguide.net
[CODE4LIB] brainstorming: code4lib as a school
In addition to a proposal to start a journal around code4lib, there has also been talk about code4lib as a school (something that I heard Dan Chudnov bring up at the conference). A lot of interest has been expressed in finding further mechanisms for members of the code4lib community to learn from and to teach each other. Such teaching/learning activities may extend beyond the immediate code4lib community. A model that was brought up at the conference was the workshop, specifically a multi-day workshop in which attendees can dive deeply into a topic. (e.g., Rob Sanderson teaching a workshop on to use cluster computing for text mining) I would like to start a conversation around the notion of code4lib as a school. There are a lot of directions such a conversation can go -- so in an attempt to guide it, I'll pose some questions: * Do you perceive a need for mechanisms beyond what we already have for the code4lib community for learning/teaching each other or those outside the community? * What mechanisms might we employ? The workshop model came to many people's minds. What do you think of the workshop model? What other mechanisms might work? * What specifically would you like to learn from this community? What would you like to teach? Who would you like to teach a course/lead a workshop and on what topics? * What are organizational frameworks we can already work within to make code4lib as a school as bureaucratically lightweight as possible w/o too many downsides? I'll kick off this thread and see where it goes. -Raymond Yee -- -- Raymond Yee2195 Hearst (250-22) Technology ArchitectUC Berkeley Interactive University Project Berkeley, CA 94720-3810 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-642-0476 (work) http://iu.berkeley.edu/rdhyee 413-541-5683 (fax) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
