Category: cultural informatics

Archivalia: Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations

Archivalia: Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations: Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007 Snapshot and case studies of current usage of Creative Commons (and other open content) licences by cultural heritage organisations in the UK —- this is a worthwhile study, i wonder if there is funding to do a […]

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Report: The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship

Report: The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship: The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship link —- From craigbellamy.net

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How to pay for a free press, by André Schiffrin

How to pay for a free press, by André Schiffrin: How to pay for a free press In a media world with one eye on the bottom line and the other on the official line, it’s getting harder to publish or broadcast anything that doesn’t promise huge sales and attendant profits, and that doesn’t say […]

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Map of Domain names

Map of the World Wide Web: A whole new way of looking at the world — now in two sizes! — these are two maps of the country codes mapped onto registrations.

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History of social media

History of social media: How the Social Web Came To Be (part 1, part 2) is a slideshow history from Trebor Sholz, for his class on social media.  Very solid, rich stuff. (via Stephen Downes) —- two good slideshows from trebor

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Cultural Ethnography: A Brief Report

Cultural Ethnography: A Brief Report: A user in the usability lab is like a tiger in the cage, helpless! Study him in his natural habitat! — this is a short report from an hci practitioner who has moved into the realm of ethnography. i think it captures one of the main failures of much of […]

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who owns web 2.0?

who owns web 2.0?: Via Tama Leaver, I found this great overview of who owns what from Amy Webb– as you can see, Google, Yahoo and the rest are far more likely than Murdoch, at this point, to end up controlling our media lives in five or ten years time. Amy Webb suggests printing it […]

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children's drawings staged as photographs.

YEONDOOJUNG: —- interesting conceptualization

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International Memory of the World Conference

International Memory of the World Conference: “Communities and memories: a global perspective” is the theme of the Conference to take place in Australia next year. In association with the Australian Memory of the World Committee and under the auspices of the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, the National Library of Australia will organize the Third […]

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Public access group challenges Smithsonian over copyrights

Public access group challenges Smithsonian over copyrights: Grabbing pictures of iconic Smithsonian Institution artifacts just got a whole lot easier. Before, if you wanted to get a picture of the Wright Brothers’ plane, you could go to the Smithsonian Images Web site and pay for a print or high-resolution image after clicking through several warnings […]

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