Web Sites of the Week November 24, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , trackbackQuite a few this week, the list includes discussions on openness its benefits and definitions, links to repositories, software to encourage openness and a pitch for a project that is looking into developing an API that can help us to navigate the messy world of OER.
- OER Theory and Practice: 2 presentations: 1st presents a strengthened and clarified definition of OER, 2nd recognizes that in “practice” people play extremely fast and loose with the term “open.”
- Open Access Anthropology Repositories : new and incomplete overview over digital libraries and repositories with free access to papers and theses. Most of them are in English (some in German and Scandinavian languages) and mostly based on the overview at Open Doar.
- Trends in Large-Scale Subject Repositories : D-Lib article noting a lack of broad empirical studies on subject repositories, the authors investigate subject repository trends that reveal common practices despite their apparent isolated development
- Microsoft works with educators and open source to support free knowledge sharing wiki: New open source extension for Microsoft Word delivers support for MediaWiki file format so users can upload documents directly into Wiki repositories.
- Exemplar Preservation Repositories: Comparison by Format Profile : How format profiles can reveal potentially characteristic fingerprints for emerging types of repository – from Diary of a Preservation Project
- University of Michigan Library Enable Broader Sharing and Reuse with Change to CC: the University content on its website under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. This announcement is significant because the Library had been using the more restrictive Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) license.
- Roadmap for an Open Educational Highway: This project seeks to develop an application programming interface (API) for publishing Open Education Resources (OER) to remixable repositories -and an excellent way to pitch a project
- Creative Commons Case Studies : organisations share experience of using CC
- Why Bother Being Open: from iterating towards openness blog providing an overview of the benefits of openness
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