Interoperability: Microsoft embraces Open Source …

In today’s connected world, interoperability is as important as security and reliability for IT professionals . This is due to an increase in technical heterogeneity which drives more complexity within, and on the edge of, their IT infrastructures. This leads to a greater demand for data and information integration as organizations seek to optimize process [...]

DSpace open source DAM

Introduction to DSpace
DSpace captures your data in any format – in text, video, audio, and data. It distributes it over the web. It indexes your work, so users can search and retrieve your items. It preserves your digital work over the long term.
DSpace provides a way to manage your research materials and publications in [...]

Dataportability … more than open social?

Philosophy As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen (and trusted) tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distributed File System for data. The technologies already exist, we simply need a complete reference design to [...]

Give a DAM this Christmas!

A BAD DAY AT CHRISTMAS

When four of Santa’s elves got sick, the trainee elves did not produce toys as fast as the regular ones, and Santa began to feel the pre-Christmas pressure.

Then ! Mrs. Claus told Santa her Mother was coming to visit, which stressed Santa even more.
When he went to harness the reindeer, he [...]

Your copyright metadata on a GRDDL

 
Mike Linksvayer,
GRDDL, pronounced “griddle”, is a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation. GRDDL allows one to describe in a standard way how to map information between different XML formats. The acronym stands for “Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages”, which describes exactly what the standard facilitates.
This is important to Creative Commons because across science, education, [...]

The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses

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Abstract
As digital technology thrusts complexity upon copyright law, conflict has escalated between copyright holders desperate to institute a vigorous enforcement mechanism against copying in order to protect their ownership and others who underscore the importance of public interests in accessing and using copyrighted works. This study explores whether Creative Commons (CC) licenses are a [...]

Creative Commons - Reticulum Rex