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Group promotes openness in govt
September 5, 2004Open The Government BOTM for september serves up opengovernment.org. This coalition of open govt advocates includes OMBWatch, ALA, Federation of American Scientists etc. Their just-released ‘Report Card’ Finds 60% Rise in Secrecy at a Rising Cost of $6.5 Billion Last Year.
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Open Access to NIH funded research
September 5, 2004Should publically funded research be freely available to the public? The House Appropriations Committee has directed the National Institutes of Health to develop a policy of requiring that a complete electronic text of any manuscript reporting work supported by NIH grants or contracts be supplied to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central. Twenty-file Nobel [...]
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P2P Congress
September 5, 2004P2P Congress The problem: Congress doesn’t do a very good job of making video of its hearings available. One solution: citizens using “p2p” technology! “The more friends, neighbors and other citizens choose to share each hearing the faster shared delivery costs drop to almost nothing.” The new problem: New legislation (the INDUCE Act) is designed [...]
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Screenscraping the Senate for the semantic web
September 3, 2004XML.com: Screenscraping the Senate This is interesting. Paul Ford, as a proof of concept of the semantic web, has scraped the US Senate website for HTML, combined it with a CVS list of Senators, and generated the data in RDF. “After years of reading and writing about the Semantic Web, I still can’t tell you [...]
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Two from Online magazine
September 3, 2004Open Access News (Formerly: FOS News) …Peter Jacso reviews three search utilities in his Picks and Pans column (p.57), and calls Citebase Search “the crown jewel of the Open Citation Project,” … [and] dismisses Google’s interface for searching scholarly archives (consisting of material from nine scientific publishers,)