Tag Archives: public domain

Dive Into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim, With Illustrations from the Public Domain

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Katarina Lovrečić

Mark Pilgrim, Google’s software developer and an advocate of free software, author of books such as Dive Into Python and Dive Into Accessibility, for programmers and web designers, has recently finished his research into HTML5. His new book, Dive Into … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Commons, Open Education | Tagged Creative Commons, free software, HTML5, Mark Pilgrim, Open Source, public domain, Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee | Leave a comment

A Christmas List of Open Access Gifts – Part Two

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Katarina Lovrečić

Immediately upon publishing my previous post, ideas just kept swarming in my head of more and more free gifts that I have forgotten, for this Christmas. 1. Music, for one. There is plenty of music made freely available on Jamendo, … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Commons, Open Access | Tagged Blender, Blender 3D, Christmas, Creative Commons, Dan Gillmor, Europeana, GIMP, Jamendo, Josh Woodward, Mediactive, Open Access, Open Source software, public domain, Sintel, The Dada Weatherman, Tryad, Winter Wonderland | Leave a comment

A Word On Michigan Library CC0 Initiative: Are We Blowing Wish Flowers?

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Katarina Lovrečić

John Wilkin, a librarian at the University of Michigan whose library recently dropped 700,000 books into the public domain with the CC Zero license, has made an interesting comment on this act. He compared bibliographic records made available all over … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Commons, Libraries, Open Access | Tagged CKAN, Creative Commons, Creative Commons Zero, john wilkin, Libraries, Michigan Library, OCLC, Open Access, Open Access Publishing, public domain, Publishing, serials crisis, three jeremiads, University of Michigan | 2 Comments

Europe’s Ana Europeana – Reimagining the Culture in Three Steps

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Katarina Lovrečić

As the new initiative from the European Commission for the Digital Agenda, Europeana is supposed to become a single access point for consulting digital materials from libraries, museums and archives of Europe. “In ancient times, the library of Alexandria was … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Commons, Open Access Repositories, Open Access Tools, Open Education | Tagged Art Nouveau, British Library, copyright, Creative Commons, Digital Agenda, European Commission, Europeana, growing knowledge, Libraries, Louvre, museums, National Library of the Netherlands, Open Access, public domain, Public Domain Charter, Rijksmuseum | Leave a comment

What Would Ginsberg Write To Open Access?

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Katarina Lovrečić

So this Green Automobile I give you in flight, a present, a present from my imagination. (Allen Ginsberg, The Green Automobile) What if Allen Ginsberg had “invented imagined and visioned” his green automobile driving petabytes of data through nodded cables … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Commons, Open Access, Open Education | Tagged allen ginsberg, Creative Commons, data scientists, ginsberg, howl, Open Access, peer review, public domain, the beat movement | 3 Comments

Creative Commons – Become Their Superhero

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Katarina Lovrečić

Today, Creative Commons team invites you to join their fight for openness and innovation and to become a CC Superhero. “A legion of Creative Commons (CC) Superheroes is already at work, using our amazing tools to save people from failed … Continue reading →