#CreativeCommons

Kudos to @PetrieMuseEgypt for having their complete object catalogue online, and with all the images accessible via @creativecommons licenses, as well!https://twitter.com/Beket_Aten/status/1260534930658021377 (But since they ask for suggestions for m

Math students at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario have been ordered to buy an external webcam and a means of fixing it over their shoulder so that proctors can

This was the tweet that shuddered me to my core almost 8 years ago.This was Aaron Swartz - a computer programming extraordinaire, if there ever was one.Today is his birthday.

Stefanie Haustein

This semester I taught @UO_ESIS #ISI6372 on information literacy. Students & I learned about finding, evaluating & creating information. We experimented w/ teaching methods & had amazing guest speakers from

Researchers at Carbios and the the University of Toulouse have created a "mutant" variant of leaf-branch compost cutinase that can break the bonds in PET plastics.https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/huge-step-forward-mutant-enzyme-could

1/ Hello world! We just made 338 #HistoricMaps of #Palestine available to download in high resolution on Palestine Open Maps #PalOpenMaps. Please do share! https://palopenmaps.org (a project supported by @visualizingpal

April Kit Walsh (she/ze)

This #FreeRPGDay I'd like to talk about RPGs that are Free as in Free Culture!This thread talks about some options to use open licensing to foster a community of collaboration

Let me try to clarify and give more details about this diplomatic incident. @Wikimedia applied to be an observer @WIPO because this is the intl forum that discusses issues like

The Snoo "smart bassinet" is a $1,300 gadget that allows you to control its rocking motions and send sounds to its speaker over the internet.You. Will. Never. Guess. What. Happened.

Carmelite Quotes

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Quote of the day, 13 April: Brother Lawrence | "We do not always have to be in church to be with God. We can make of our hearts an oratory

The ERP Boot Camp

So much to announce today! We have a webinar on quantifying ERP data quality this week, a webinar on the ERP CORE next week, and resources for people who are

A common pathology among experts in quantitative field is to assume that when they are dealing with problems with qualitative dimensions that they can simply model the quantitative part and

Christopher Sprigman

@creativecommons tells us that licensing academic materials under their "no derivatives" license is misguided. As someone who's licensed a free copyright text under CC's ND license, let me tell you

Amazon is an "essential business" because it sells things like sex toys and hammer drills (don't mix these up!). But they also sell books. Your local indie bookseller is likely

The area below NYC's Union Square was once called "Book Row" - a six-block stretch boasting nearly 40 bookstores, many of them used and rare bookdealers. Today, the sole survivor

For 18 months, people in the Welsh village of Aberhosan lost their broadband signal at 7 every morning. No one could figure it out. Engineers at BT Openreach - the