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Collating online collections. Study of 13 cultural heritage collections online

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Francis Deblauwe · May 05th, 2008 · no comments made
Calo Basilio More and more museums and other cultural heritage organizations are offering online access to their holdings. These initiatives are varied in scope, depth and target audience. They also take different approaches to copyright and open access, esp. regarding photos of art and artifacts in their care.

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For this limited investigation, I selected a more or less random sample... [more]

Happy Birthday, Creative Commons!

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Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter · Dec 15th, 2006 · 2 comments
Everybody in the iCommons community wishes you all the best on this, your 4th birthday.

You've come a long way, baby, and the world is a better place for it.

If you're anywhere near these places on the 15th/16th of December, go on and raise a glass and celebrate the big day. [more]

iCommons Podcast - Episode 1

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Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter · Dec 13th, 2006 · no comments made
gregor.r Episode 1 of our fantastic new podcast is now available for download!

In this episode a lawyer, a media guy, a producer and some commoners discuss open film and how it was that one man was able to stop worrying, and love the commons. Also featured is an interview with Whispa, an awfully nice guy and the winner of ccMixter South Africa's SAfro-Brazilian remix contest.

To download... [more]

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iSummit 2008 Planning Workshop - Presentation by Japanese team

Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter · MP3 · Jan 29th, 2008 · 14 votes

At the Summit planning workshop, the team from Sapporo City, Digital Garage and CCJP gave a presentation on the Summit venue, the city of Sapporo, and... [more]

Communicating Disasters: Building on the Tsunami Experience...

fredericknoronha · text (PDF) · Feb 24th, 2008 · 19 votes

A new Asian book published this month takes a critical look at the communication lessons of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, and explores the... [more]

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EURAM Conference 2008, Call for paper - CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS

Ljubljana (Slovenia) · May 15th to May 17th · no comments made

CALL FOR PAPER
TRACK WITHIN THE EURAM Conference 2008
CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS.
How collective management of IPRs, open innovation models,... [more]

Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K3), Geneva 8 -10 Sept 2008

Switzerland · Sep 08th to Sep 10th · no comments made

Please save the date for the third annual Access to Knowledge Conference
(A2K3) on September 8-10, 2008.

In a departure from precedent, please note... [more]

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Stories Stones and Stations,Future Generations,Stories Of The Railway,

York (Canada)

Using GPS technology these Stories Stones and Stations can be accessed using Google maps and yahoo geocities .

Adding universal templates to locate time and place content. [more]

Preserving audiovisual cultural heritage

Amsterdam (Netherlands)

1) Collaboratively develop a list (or paper) of best and worst practices

2) Collaboratively draft a strategy for involving online communities in digitization projects [more]

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