IOSA.it Open Archaeology

I can't remember exactly when I started following Open Access News, the most important source of news for everything open access, from literature to public sector information. I can say for sure that it was long before OAN became a blog (that is, one with feeds and more-than-weekly updates). I remember IOSA.it being covered on OAN as a
Good things evolve over time and this one makes no exception: Open Access News, starting from last week, has been “superseded” by the already running Open Access Tracking Project. This means basically that most “retweets” like links to relevant breaking news from academia or governments will take their way in Connotea. OAN will continue to exist, but with a low volume — I'm sure this will mean in-depth discussion of major issues or advancements. In Suber's words:

OATP is more comprehensive than a large blog because it is crowdsourced and distributes the labor to all who want to take part. It's leaner than a large blog because most of its news alerts are just citations, links, and brief descriptions.

The mere fact that one single person can't follow alone the entire flow of news about Open Access is great, by the way.
So, to make a long story short:

1. thanks, thanks a lot to Peter Suber and Gavin Baker for their restless work during these past years
2. go to http://www.connotea.org/tag/oa.new and subscribe to the newsfeed (incidentally, please note that most of the content there is submitted daily by Peter Suber himself)
3. (optional, but recommended) get yourself an account on Connotea and start tagging relevant open access news
4. don't forget to check out also http://www.connotea.org/tag/oa.archaeology and maybe share news about open access at your lab, department, university, company or office
5. finally, when you see that the oa.* prefix can be used for anything, look for your country, field of study/work, etc

I can't remember exactly when I started following Open Access News, the most important source of news for everything open access, from literature to public sector information. I can say for sure that it was long before OAN became a blog (that is, one with feeds and more-than-weekly updates). I remember IOSA.it being covered on OAN as a
Good things evolve over time and this one makes no exception: Open Access News, starting from last week, has been “superseded” by the already running Open Access Tracking Project. This means basically that most “retweets” like links to relevant breaking news from academia or governments will take their way in Connotea. OAN will continue to exist, but with a low volume — I'm sure this will mean in-depth discussion of major issues or advancements. In Suber's words:

OATP is more comprehensive than a large blog because it is crowdsourced and distributes the labor to all who want to take part. It's leaner than a large blog because most of its news alerts are just citations, links, and brief descriptions.

The mere fact that one single person can't follow alone the entire flow of news about Open Access is great, by the way.
So, to make a long story short:

1. thanks, thanks a lot to Peter Suber and Gavin Baker for their restless work during these past years
2. go to http://www.connotea.org/tag/oa.new and subscribe to the newsfeed (incidentally, please note that most of the content there is submitted daily by Peter Suber himself)
3. (optional, but recommended) get yourself an account on Connotea and start tagging relevant open access news
4. don't forget to check out also http://www.connotea.org/tag/oa.archaeology and maybe share news about open access at your lab, department, university, company or office
5. finally, when you see that the oa.* prefix can be used for anything, look for your country, field of study/work, etc

A few days ago, thanks to Jonathan Gray of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a proposal for a Working Group on Open Data in Archaeology was drafted. There's a wiki page for coordinating and collecting ideas — which acts also as a brief call for participation until a true one is sent. The idea came out after I discovered (and liked it a lot) the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN ... a name familiar to anyone using Perl or R), an OKF project defined as “Debian of data”.

Il giorno 7 maggio 2009 si è tenuto a Genova, presso l'aula magna della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, il seminario sul tema “Diritti d'autore e banche dati per i beni culturali”, terzo ed ultimo appuntamento del ciclo di incontri: “Nuove ricerche e giovani ricercatori” organizzato, per il secondo anno consecutivo, dal grupporicerche della sezione di Genova dell'Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri (IISL).

Lots of archaeological news these days in Open Access News, the primary collector of Open Access related information and discussion.
This is probably a direct consequence of the rapid advancements in the field. My main hope now is that established journals begin moving to OA, especially academy-based ones (i.e. journals that are not tied to a publisher but are published directly by a research institution).

from the Science Commons Blog:

If so, there’s a new discussion list you may want to join, brought to you by the good folks at the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Writes OKF’s Jonathan Gray:

As far as we could tell, there wasn’t a general mailing list for people interested in open science. Hence the new list aims to cover this gap, and to strengthen and consolidate the open science community.

We hope it will be a relatively low volume list for relevant announcements, questions and notes. We also hope to get as full as possible representation from the open science community — so please forward this to anyone you think might be interested to join!

On the 7th of May 2008, there will be a meeting with Richard
Stallman, one of the Free Software's main "philosophers", in Savona's Campus of the University of Genova(Italy).

Richard Stallman is going to discuss about "Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks" .

It would be a pity to loose the opportunity to meet one of the gurus that has founded GNU Linux and the Free Software Foundation.

More informations writing here : spes@campus-savona.it .

Thus let's go guys!!!!