12 June 2010
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog � Blog Archive � Dig the new breed, Part III - wrapping it all up
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog � Blog Archive � Dig the new breed, Part III - wrapping it all up: "Dig the new breed, Part III - wrapping it all up
June 11th, 2010
This is the third in the amazing series of guest blogs from Ant Beck on the impact of linked open data for archaeology.
Part 1: New approaches to archaeological data analysis, as seen in the DART and STAR projects Part 2: Considering the ethics of sharing archaeological knowledge
OK, to recap we have:
A scientific movement that advocates open approaches to data, theory and practice
Emerging foundational interoperability using semantic web technology
The potential to remove a barrier and facilitate the submission of primary data"
June 11th, 2010
This is the third in the amazing series of guest blogs from Ant Beck on the impact of linked open data for archaeology.
Part 1: New approaches to archaeological data analysis, as seen in the DART and STAR projects Part 2: Considering the ethics of sharing archaeological knowledge
OK, to recap we have:
A scientific movement that advocates open approaches to data, theory and practice
Emerging foundational interoperability using semantic web technology
The potential to remove a barrier and facilitate the submission of primary data"
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog � Blog Archive � Dig the new breed, Part II - open archaeology and ethics
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog � Blog Archive � Dig the new breed, Part II - open archaeology and ethics: "Dig the new breed, Part II - open archaeology and ethics
June 11th, 2010
The second in this great series of three guest blogs by Ant Beck. See Part 1 for applications of linked data and remote sensing in archaeology. Part 3 will wrap things up and talk about the disruptive implications of linked open data for impact of archaeology."
June 11th, 2010
The second in this great series of three guest blogs by Ant Beck. See Part 1 for applications of linked data and remote sensing in archaeology. Part 3 will wrap things up and talk about the disruptive implications of linked open data for impact of archaeology."
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The second in this great series of three guest blogs by Ant Beck. See Part 1 for applications of linked data and remote sensing in archaeology. Part 3 will wrap things up and talk about the disruptive implications of linked open data for impact of archaeology.
Open Science provides the framework for producing transparent and reproducible science by providing open access to raw data, algorithms and interpretations. Efforts such as STAR and STELLAR provide the foundation from which fine granularity excavation data can be made available as part of the semantic web and feed into Open Science analysis. This provides answers to the questions of how and why we should have open access to archaeological data. However, it does not provide answers to what data should be opened or if archaeological data should be opened at all. We move into the sphere of ethics and open archaeology."
by jwalsh
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The second in this great series of three guest blogs by Ant Beck. See Part 1 for applications of linked data and remote sensing in archaeology. Part 3 will wrap things up and talk about the disruptive implications of linked open data for impact of archaeology.
Open Science provides the framework for producing transparent and reproducible science by providing open access to raw data, algorithms and interpretations. Efforts such as STAR and STELLAR provide the foundation from which fine granularity excavation data can be made available as part of the semantic web and feed into Open Science analysis. This provides answers to the questions of how and why we should have open access to archaeological data. However, it does not provide answers to what data should be opened or if archaeological data should be opened at all. We move into the sphere of ethics and open archaeology."
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog � Blog Archive � Dig the New Breed: How open approaches can empower archaeologists- Part I
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog � Blog Archive � Dig the New Breed: How open approaches can empower archaeologists- Part I: "Dig the New Breed: How open approaches can empower archaeologists- Part I
June 10th, 2010
Very happy to post the first in an amazing series of OKFN guest blogs by Ant Beck, a member of the Open Archaeology working group. Ant discusses the DART project and the STAR project, both employed Linked Data in a heritage context. Later we’ll get into the ethics of open heritage, and a vision for the future of archaeological data."
June 10th, 2010
Very happy to post the first in an amazing series of OKFN guest blogs by Ant Beck, a member of the Open Archaeology working group. Ant discusses the DART project and the STAR project, both employed Linked Data in a heritage context. Later we’ll get into the ethics of open heritage, and a vision for the future of archaeological data."
Government Data
Government Data: "
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The new UK coalition government has been making some interesting policy decisions around government data extending some of the work already underway under the previous Labour administration. For example see the prime minister’s Letter to Government departments on opening up data issued on Monday 31 May 2010.
The conservative party (majority partner in the coalition) technology manifesto is well worth looking over for anyone interested in data and IT policy in the UK and an indicator of what might still be coming out of the new government.
In addition, to plans to open up government data and spending information it refers to research by Rufus Pollock et al at Cambridge University on the economic value of open data, which estimated it will create an estimated £6 billion in additional value for the UK. This boost to British jobs will come from the synergies and positive spillover benefits that result from businesses and social entrepreneurs building new applications and services using previously locked-up government data.
It is fascinating to see how big an effect on UK government policy advocacy by the likes of the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Free Our Data campaign has had. Of course it helps if similar initiatives are underway in the USA – see the Wired interview with the US government’s first-ever chief information officer, Vivek Kundra.
You can now measure the impact of your online resource � Digitisation
You can now measure the impact of your online resource � Digitisation: "You can now measure the impact of your online resource
The Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (TIDSR), developed for JISC by the Oxford Internet Institute, is now available online for everybody to use."
The Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources (TIDSR), developed for JISC by the Oxford Internet Institute, is now available online for everybody to use."
tsig - Pre-conference 2010
tsig - Pre-conference 2010
Description
A new standard that will enable cataloguers to create metadata that is compatible with internationally established principles, models, and standards, RDA focuses on user tasks and the information users need. This year our focus will be on the new places where RDA is taking us and how RDA positions us for the next generation of resource description and resource discovery. Topics include: development and implementation in Canada and around the world; the effects of FRBRization on resource discovery; and, a presentation of the Metadata Service Toolkit and its potential use for transforming MARC data to RDA.Kallinikos
Kallinikos
A theory of digital objects
Digital objects are marked by a limited set of variable yet generic attributes such as editability, interactivity, openness and distributedness. As digital objects diffuse throughout the institutional fabric, these attributes and the information–based operations and procedures out of which they are sustained install themselves at the heart of social practice. The entities and processes that constitute the stuff of social practice are thereby rendered increasingly unstable and transfigurable, producing a context of experience in which the certainties of recurring and recognizable objects are on the wane. These claims are supported with reference to 1) the elusive identity of digital documents and the problems of authentication/preservation of records such an identity posits and 2) the operations of search engines and the effects digital search has on the content of the documents it retrieves.
http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/475/1/JISC%26RLUK_VISION_FINAL.pdf
ONE TO MANY; MANY TO ONE:
THE RESOURCE DISCOVERY TASKFORCE VISION
WorldWideScience
WorldWideScience
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.
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