Tag: creative commons
50,000 Xpert Attributions
August 19th, 2011 at 08:08
The Xpert attribution service, which provides automatic attribution of openly licenced or public domain images that are available in Flickr and Wikimedia, passed another milestone this week. Over 50,000 images have now been attributed using the tool in 2011. The exact figure as of today is 50,973 for this year. The tool was designed to [...]
Don’t shoot the cartographer
February 11th, 2011 at 04:02
Can the world be flat and round at the same time? On the grandest scale of knowledge, of course the world is round (or spherical), but in localised contexts, could it still be seen as flat? If we take the case of OER, then although it is without doubt an international movement, there are distinct [...]
Open Nottingham Seminar – Key Notes Confirmed
February 10th, 2011 at 09:02
Open Nottingham Seminar – Thursday 7th April 2011 – Sir Colin Campbell Building – University of Nottingham – 10am to 3.30pm We are now able to confirm the key note speakers for the Open Nottingham Seminar: Steve Midgley (Deputy Director, Office of Education Technology, United States Department of Education) Steve is a key member of the Learning [...]
Copyrighternicus and Gallilegalo
4 October 8th, 2010 at 07:10
You wait all day for a new copyright issue to come along and then two turn up at once, but they are all slightly different so they can’t sue each other – not like those litigious buses. Creative Commons have released a new public domain license, but at the same time lost the Creative Commons search [...]