Creative Commons, which produces licenses implemented in 50 different jurisdictions until now, including Serbian project, on December 15th celebrates its 6th Birthday around the world. Regarding this occasion, Creative Commons Serbia, Wikimedia Serbia, and Free Software Network Serbia, organises at the Faculty of Mathematics, of the University of Belgrade (room …
Category: Science
what is twine and how does it contribute to free full text databases?
If you’re not familiar with Twine – it is web 2.5 (towards web 3.0) tool that keeps track of your interests by collecting online content, brings it all together by the topic of your interest, so you can have it all in one place and share it with anyone you …
ScienceOnline ’09 – exploring science on Web
Remember Science blogging conference this January? Well, next year free three-day event ScienceOnline09, will be held from 16-18 January 2009, at Research Triangle Park, NC. This annual blogging science conference brings together scientists, educators, bloggers, students, journalists to collaborate, discuss, demonstrate online strategies and software for promoting public and better …
open access, electronic resources in networked web 2.0 world
Two days ago I was giving a talk at the International Scientific Conference, University of Belgrade (25-27th Sept). I have uploaded slides of that talk, for anyone who are interested in OA, e-resources, the usage of social media and software in education. Also, I created temporary wiki page that I …
Radiohead “House of Cards” and Google cooperation
Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”. No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close …
Rheingold talks about the future of Internet technologies
This weeks’ event in Torino, Italy – Frontiers of Interaction IV brought, beside interesting speakers, video talk with digital guru Howard Rheingold, interviewed by Robin Good on vision about the future of mobility and pervasive techs. Fantastic video link covers major topics on online collaboration, digital divide, net neutrality, interaction …
UNESCO publishes a book on Open Access to Knowledge and Information in South Asia
UNESCO office in New Delhi, as a clearinghouse for dissemination and sharing of information and knowledge in all fields of UNESCO’s competence, published ebook Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives – the South Asian Scenario. I wrote earlier that some of the major edu. …