Persistent myths about open access scientific publishing. Dr Mike Taylor in The Guardian: For Elsevier, the biggest of the barrier-based publishers, we can calculate the total cost per article as £1,605m subscription revenue divided by 240,000 articl…
in Foreign Policy: Pictures at a Revolution Data visualization can offer some unique insights into social upheaval. But the data artists are just getting started.
The World Bank is taking next steps in making sharing and re-use of data and information easier, by adopting an open access policy (in July) and starting an Open Knowledge Repository
A short excerpt from Professor Robert Chambers’ public lecture on 23 January 2012 in which he lists the words which can be found in the Paris Declaration and those that cannot. (via The Paris Declaration | Linkingknowledgedomains)
Fundstücke published this week:
A Critical Look at Decentralized Personal Data Architectures21 Feb 2012, Arvind NarayananI have a new paper with the above title, currently under peer review, with Vincent Toubiana, Solon B…
What is Linked Open Data, and why is it good for cultural heritage institutions (a.k.a. “memory organisations”) Linked Open Data (by europeana)
Rolf Kleef 