Open Access News (Formerly: FOS News)
Peter Suber has changed the name of his excellent blog from “Free Online Scholarship.” He notes that,
The field covered by the blog is now better known as the “open access movement” than the “FOS movement”.
Public Policy Considerations for Internet Design Decisions The
Center for Democracy and Technology’s Internet Standards, Technology and Policy Project
has issued a new draft document, “Public Policy Considerations for Internet Design Decisions,” that sets forth questions Internet engineers should ask in designing new Internet technologies.
A common assertion within the IETF is that “we don’t do public
policy.” The goal of this document is NOT to suggest that the IETF
should “do” policy in the sense of intentionally conducting extensive
debates on public policy issues. But, as much as the IETF
appropriately tries not to “do” policy, many of its actions and
decisions squarely and significantly impact on public policy
concerns. This document seeks to encourage the IETF to acknowledge
those times when a design decision might affect a policy concern, so
that the community can make a reasoned decision on whether and how to
address the concern in the particular situation.
Sifry’s Alerts: Comments on the RSS Controversy. If I had my vote, I’d go along with MSS (metadata site summary).
The new information ecosystem: cultures of anarchy and closure. This is the first of a five-part series on the impact of peer-to-peer from internet guru Siva Vaidhyanathan on the site, OpenDemocracy.
RSS may soon be replaced with… Brought to you by LibraryPlanet.
Librarian’s Lao-Tzu: a translation especially for librarians. Try this one on for size:
All things arise from the Library.
They are nourished by the profession.
They are formed from data.
They are shaped by the end user.
Congress Online: Much Sizzle, Little Steak. A New York Times analysis shows that Congressional web sites
offer a cornucopia of personal and hometown lore, in most cases virtually everything except what becomes legends most: their voting records.
OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group [OCLC Research]. The focus of the PREMIS group will be on the practical aspects of implementing preservation metadata in digital preservation systems.
TeaLeaf Press Release. “In its Report on Government Web Application Integrity, BIG-SF encountered errors at 68 percent of the top-performing government Web sites.”
complete report. Also see the Keynote Government Index.
Supreme Court Upholds Internet Filters (TechNews.com) (Washington Post).
“The Supreme Court upheld today a federal law that seeks to prevent Internet users at public libraries from gaining access to pornography, a decision that could affect the online choices available to millions of Americans who use the World Wide Web at libraries.” Stevens, Souter, and Ginsburg dissented.
The Decision. ALA denounces decision.