- Eduserv Foundation, Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations
Digital resources produced by publicly funded organisations are a valuable asset to the research and education community. Many people in the sector believe that access to and use of these digital resources could be better and that the wider use of open content licences would help to improve the situation.
- UCSC Wiki Lab, Wikipedia trust coloring demo
In this demo, the text background of Wikipedia articles is colored according to a value of trust, computed from the reputation of the authors who contributed the text, as well as those who edited the text.
- O’Reilly Radar, Law is code
Code-is-law, a term originating from Professor Lawrence Lessig, has been on the collective mind of Radar lately. Tim blogged about it, and the last issue of Release 2.0 explored it further.
- Save a film, Help us to save films by providing free public access to films on the Internet Archive
How would you like to see films in our collection free of charge, any time you want, on the internet? We’ve already digitized several rare and “lost” 16mm films from our noted collection and uploaded them for free public viewing. With your help, we can digitize and upload more. We’d like you to consider sponsoring a film for uploading, and your sponsorship will be tax-deductible.