Catalogablog: New Vocabularies Added to LC Authorities and Vocabularies Service: "Good news from LC more linked data.
The Library of Congress is pleased to make available new vocabularies from its Authorities and Vocabularies web service (ID.LOC.GOV), which provides access to Library of Congress standards and vocabularies as Linked Data. The new additions include :
MARC Code List for Countries
MARC Code List for Geographic Areas
MARC Code List for Languages"
04 January 2011
MagicTile - geometrical and topolgical analogues of Rubik's Cube
MagicTile - geometrical and topolgical analogues of Rubik's Cube: "...and many more!
This program aims to support twisty puzzles based on regular polygonal tilings having Schlafli symbols of the form {p,3} for any p>=2. That is, all regular tilings of polygons with two or more sides, where three tiles (puzzle faces) meet at a vertex. The Rubik's cube is the special case where faces are squares (p=4). The other familiar special cases are the Megaminx (p=5) and the Pyraminx (p=3), although you'll discover the last takes a slightly different form under this abstraction (akin to Jing's Pyraminx). All the other puzzles are new as far as I know, and some may be surprising, e.g. the puzzles based on digons (p=2)."
This program aims to support twisty puzzles based on regular polygonal tilings having Schlafli symbols of the form {p,3} for any p>=2. That is, all regular tilings of polygons with two or more sides, where three tiles (puzzle faces) meet at a vertex. The Rubik's cube is the special case where faces are squares (p=4). The other familiar special cases are the Megaminx (p=5) and the Pyraminx (p=3), although you'll discover the last takes a slightly different form under this abstraction (akin to Jing's Pyraminx). All the other puzzles are new as far as I know, and some may be surprising, e.g. the puzzles based on digons (p=2)."
Semantic Web New Year's Resolutions - Web Science - the World of the World Wide Web Blog | Nature Publishing Group
Semantic Web New Year's Resolutions - Web Science - the World of the World Wide Web Blog | Nature Publishing Group: "Semantic Web New Year's Resolutions
Posted by James Hendler on Jan 3, 2011
I am using the New Year as an excuse to explore my Semantic Web research agenda. This past year was a great year for the Semantic in industrial uptake, in seeing respect grow in the government open data community, and in seeing a new intake of people at the Semantic Technologies conference in the US and related conferences overseas. (My slideshare talk on the status of the Semantic Web covers some of this)"
Posted by James Hendler on Jan 3, 2011
I am using the New Year as an excuse to explore my Semantic Web research agenda. This past year was a great year for the Semantic in industrial uptake, in seeing respect grow in the government open data community, and in seeing a new intake of people at the Semantic Technologies conference in the US and related conferences overseas. (My slideshare talk on the status of the Semantic Web covers some of this)"
Peter Suber, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 1/2/11
Peter Suber, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 1/2/11: "Open access in 2010
The growth of OA over the past year was deep, wide, and steady. While this has been true every year since my first year-end review in 2003, the difficulty of documenting that growth with useful detail has become nearly unmangeable. In fact, this has also been true for several years. At some point --roughly now-- we'll have to accept that OA movement is so large that annual reviews must either be sketchy or come out six months late. To cover the territory in a manageable time, I've long since dropped most new developments in open education, public-sector information, and wikis. I don't even try to list all new individual OA journals, OA repositories, or all new open-data or open-digitization projects. I'm keeping the section I added last year on the recession, since the recession continues to permeate action and policy nearly everywhere.
But with these caveats, here's a feast of the OA highlights from 2010. As always, apologies to the many projects I had to omit.
If you're in a hurry, jump to Section 10 for some highlights of the highlights."
The growth of OA over the past year was deep, wide, and steady. While this has been true every year since my first year-end review in 2003, the difficulty of documenting that growth with useful detail has become nearly unmangeable. In fact, this has also been true for several years. At some point --roughly now-- we'll have to accept that OA movement is so large that annual reviews must either be sketchy or come out six months late. To cover the territory in a manageable time, I've long since dropped most new developments in open education, public-sector information, and wikis. I don't even try to list all new individual OA journals, OA repositories, or all new open-data or open-digitization projects. I'm keeping the section I added last year on the recession, since the recession continues to permeate action and policy nearly everywhere.
But with these caveats, here's a feast of the OA highlights from 2010. As always, apologies to the many projects I had to omit.
If you're in a hurry, jump to Section 10 for some highlights of the highlights."
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