English Corner
In California, Governor Jerry Brown has signed two bills (SB 1052 and SB 1053) that will provide for the creation of free, openly licensed digital textbooks for the 50 most popular lower-division college courses offered by California colleges. The legislation was introduced by Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and passed by the California Senate and Assembly in late August.
A crucial component of the California legislation is that the textbooks developed will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY)
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34288
A crucial component of the California legislation is that the textbooks developed will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY)
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34288
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 28. September 2012, 23:01 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Congratulations!
https://www.change.org/petitions/the-governor-of-ga-leave-our-state-archives-open-to-the-public
See also
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/142785462/
https://www.change.org/petitions/the-governor-of-ga-leave-our-state-archives-open-to-the-public
See also
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/142785462/
KlausGraf - am Samstag, 15. September 2012, 16:44 - Rubrik: English Corner
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109377556796183035206/posts/2NdDHncTLvN
The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) is starting a transition to TagTeam, a new and more versatile tagging platform. This is a significant improvement to the project, and may also count as long-awaited. At least I've been looking forward to this day for more than two years.
OATP is a social-tagging project I launched in April 2009 with the twofold purpose of alerting readers to new OA developments and organizing knowledge about OA. For more about OATP, see the project home page bit.ly/oatrackingproject or my article about the project in SOAN for May 2009 http://goo.gl/f6cVe .
TagTeam is a new open-source tagging service I developed with Dan Collis-Puro at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. For more about TagTeam, see the TagTeam site tagteam.harvard.edu/ or my short introduction bit.ly/tagteam-about, "What is TagTeam?"
OATP readers follow new OA developments by reading one or more project feeds, and OATP taggers tag new OA developments for themselves and for readers.
Until now, both kinds of OATP participant had to use Connotea, the tagging platform from the Nature Publishing Group. The transition means that readers should switch from Connotea feeds to TagTeam feeds, and that taggers are now free to use other tagging platforms, such as Delicious, CiteULike, Connotea, or TagTeam itself.
If you've previously participated in OATP as a reader or tagger, it's easy to continue to participate. If you haven't previously participated, it's easy to get started. For the details, see our handout on the transition.
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Transition_to_TagTeam
Here's a quick summary of the transition handout:
(1) To participate as a reader
If you subscribe to any OATP feeds from Connotea, it's time to switch to the counterpart feeds from TagTeam. If you've never subscribed to the OATP feed, this is a good time to start. The feed is available in RSS or Atom, and will soon be available by email, Twitter, and other formats. Here are the RSS and Atom versions of the primary project feed:
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items.rss
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items.atom
If you want to read the feed without subscribing, just visit the HTML version whenever you'd like to catch up on what the project taggers have discovered.
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp
Starting September 17, ten days from today, my assistants and I will stop tagging for OATP through Connotea. Starting then, the Connotea project feeds will become less and less comprehensive. The only way to get comprehensive OATP feeds will be through TagTeam. Please use the next ten days to subscribe to the new TagTeam feeds of your choice.
For the next ten days, my assistants and I will tag new developments in both Connotea and TagTeam. Hence, neither early-switchers nor late-switchers should miss anything.
Also on September 17, the OATP Twitter feed will switch from the Connotea source to the TagTeam source. If you follow OATP through Twitter twitter.com/oatp rather than HTML, RSS, or email, you needn't change anything.
(2) To participate as a tagger
If you previously used Connotea to tag new items for OATP, you may continue to tag from Connotea if you like. Or you may switch to a different tagging platform, such as Delicious or CiteULike. You may switch to any tagging platform that generates RSS or Atom feeds for each tag. Or you may tag directly from TagTeam. It's your choice, and you may use more than one platform if you like.
All you have to do is notify us so that OATP can subscribe to the feed of items you tag for the project. OATP will then braid those items together with items tagged by others, remove duplicates, merge the tags, and make the resulting feeds available to project readers.
For details on how to tag for OATP from the tagging platform of your choice, see the transition handout.
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Transition_to_TagTeam
The development of TagTeam 1.0 focused on architecture, basic functions, and efficiency, not the elegance of the look and feel. Version 2.0 will add a slew of new features and include an aesthetic makeover. We're still near the start of this exciting project.
Review of the basic links
* Transition to TagTeam, http://goo.gl/rqz0i
* What is TagTeam? bit.ly/tagteam-about
* TagTeam itself, tagteam.harvard.edu/
* OATP itself,<bit.ly/oatrackingproject
[...]
The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) is starting a transition to TagTeam, a new and more versatile tagging platform. This is a significant improvement to the project, and may also count as long-awaited. At least I've been looking forward to this day for more than two years.
OATP is a social-tagging project I launched in April 2009 with the twofold purpose of alerting readers to new OA developments and organizing knowledge about OA. For more about OATP, see the project home page bit.ly/oatrackingproject or my article about the project in SOAN for May 2009 http://goo.gl/f6cVe .
TagTeam is a new open-source tagging service I developed with Dan Collis-Puro at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. For more about TagTeam, see the TagTeam site tagteam.harvard.edu/ or my short introduction bit.ly/tagteam-about, "What is TagTeam?"
OATP readers follow new OA developments by reading one or more project feeds, and OATP taggers tag new OA developments for themselves and for readers.
Until now, both kinds of OATP participant had to use Connotea, the tagging platform from the Nature Publishing Group. The transition means that readers should switch from Connotea feeds to TagTeam feeds, and that taggers are now free to use other tagging platforms, such as Delicious, CiteULike, Connotea, or TagTeam itself.
If you've previously participated in OATP as a reader or tagger, it's easy to continue to participate. If you haven't previously participated, it's easy to get started. For the details, see our handout on the transition.
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Transition_to_TagTeam
Here's a quick summary of the transition handout:
(1) To participate as a reader
If you subscribe to any OATP feeds from Connotea, it's time to switch to the counterpart feeds from TagTeam. If you've never subscribed to the OATP feed, this is a good time to start. The feed is available in RSS or Atom, and will soon be available by email, Twitter, and other formats. Here are the RSS and Atom versions of the primary project feed:
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items.rss
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items.atom
If you want to read the feed without subscribing, just visit the HTML version whenever you'd like to catch up on what the project taggers have discovered.
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp
Starting September 17, ten days from today, my assistants and I will stop tagging for OATP through Connotea. Starting then, the Connotea project feeds will become less and less comprehensive. The only way to get comprehensive OATP feeds will be through TagTeam. Please use the next ten days to subscribe to the new TagTeam feeds of your choice.
For the next ten days, my assistants and I will tag new developments in both Connotea and TagTeam. Hence, neither early-switchers nor late-switchers should miss anything.
Also on September 17, the OATP Twitter feed will switch from the Connotea source to the TagTeam source. If you follow OATP through Twitter twitter.com/oatp rather than HTML, RSS, or email, you needn't change anything.
(2) To participate as a tagger
If you previously used Connotea to tag new items for OATP, you may continue to tag from Connotea if you like. Or you may switch to a different tagging platform, such as Delicious or CiteULike. You may switch to any tagging platform that generates RSS or Atom feeds for each tag. Or you may tag directly from TagTeam. It's your choice, and you may use more than one platform if you like.
All you have to do is notify us so that OATP can subscribe to the feed of items you tag for the project. OATP will then braid those items together with items tagged by others, remove duplicates, merge the tags, and make the resulting feeds available to project readers.
For details on how to tag for OATP from the tagging platform of your choice, see the transition handout.
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Transition_to_TagTeam
The development of TagTeam 1.0 focused on architecture, basic functions, and efficiency, not the elegance of the look and feel. Version 2.0 will add a slew of new features and include an aesthetic makeover. We're still near the start of this exciting project.
Review of the basic links
* Transition to TagTeam, http://goo.gl/rqz0i
* What is TagTeam? bit.ly/tagteam-about
* TagTeam itself, tagteam.harvard.edu/
* OATP itself,<bit.ly/oatrackingproject
[...]
KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 12. September 2012, 18:45 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://theconveyor.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/a-visual-record-of-unidentified-coats-of-arms-in-bodleian-incunables/
On Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxford_csb/sets/72157629489440232/
On Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxford_csb/sets/72157629489440232/
KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 30. August 2012, 14:44 - Rubrik: English Corner
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KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 23. August 2012, 19:38 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Otto Vervaart has a nice passage on Archivalia in its blog entry "Crossing many borders: the study of medieval canon law"
http://rechtsgeschiedenis.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/crossing-many-borders-the-study-o-medieval-canon-law/
In my blog roll I try to present as many relevant blogs for legal history as I can. My collection is surely not complete. Returning briefly to the opening of this post where I told about the impulse I received from Germany in 2009 it is only quite recent that German scholars have started embracing this medium. Klaus Graf is probably the best known pioneer, if not the very godfather of German history blogs. He started his Archivalia blog in 2003. The German branch of the French Hypotheses blogging network was officially launched during a symposium Weblogs in den Geisteswissenschaften in Munich on March 9, 2012. At de.hypotheses.org you can now find 23 German scholarly blogs, including a new one edited by Klaus Graf with references to reviews of recent studies on Early Modern history, the Frühneuzeit-Blog der RWTH. Graf wrote a very substantial paper for this meeting, with many links to blogs instead of traditional German footnotes. It is no incident that the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Paris and its librarian Mareike König have taken a lead in getting German scholars to create blogs and to use Twitter.
http://rechtsgeschiedenis.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/crossing-many-borders-the-study-o-medieval-canon-law/
In my blog roll I try to present as many relevant blogs for legal history as I can. My collection is surely not complete. Returning briefly to the opening of this post where I told about the impulse I received from Germany in 2009 it is only quite recent that German scholars have started embracing this medium. Klaus Graf is probably the best known pioneer, if not the very godfather of German history blogs. He started his Archivalia blog in 2003. The German branch of the French Hypotheses blogging network was officially launched during a symposium Weblogs in den Geisteswissenschaften in Munich on March 9, 2012. At de.hypotheses.org you can now find 23 German scholarly blogs, including a new one edited by Klaus Graf with references to reviews of recent studies on Early Modern history, the Frühneuzeit-Blog der RWTH. Graf wrote a very substantial paper for this meeting, with many links to blogs instead of traditional German footnotes. It is no incident that the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Paris and its librarian Mareike König have taken a lead in getting German scholars to create blogs and to use Twitter.
KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 22. August 2012, 14:56 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/17/britain-destroyed-records-of-colonial-crimes/
Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments, an official review has concluded.
Those papers that survived the purge were flown discreetly to Britain where they were hidden for 50 years in a secret Foreign Office archive, beyond the reach of historians and members of the public, and in breach of legal obligations for them to be transferred into the public domain.
The archive came to light last year when a group of Kenyans detained and allegedly tortured during the Mau Mau rebellion won the right to sue the British government. The Foreign Office promised to release the 8,800 files from 37 former colonies held at the highly-secure government communications centre at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire. [...]
However, among the documents are a handful which show that many of the most sensitive papers from Britain’s late colonial era were not hidden away, but simply destroyed. These papers give the instructions for systematic destruction issued in 1961 after Iain Macleod, secretary of state for the colonies, directed that post-independence governments should not get any material that “might embarrass Her Majesty’s government”, that could “embarrass members of the police, military forces, public servants or others eg police informers”, that might compromise intelligence sources, or that might “be used unethically by ministers in the successor government”.
Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments, an official review has concluded.
Those papers that survived the purge were flown discreetly to Britain where they were hidden for 50 years in a secret Foreign Office archive, beyond the reach of historians and members of the public, and in breach of legal obligations for them to be transferred into the public domain.
The archive came to light last year when a group of Kenyans detained and allegedly tortured during the Mau Mau rebellion won the right to sue the British government. The Foreign Office promised to release the 8,800 files from 37 former colonies held at the highly-secure government communications centre at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire. [...]
However, among the documents are a handful which show that many of the most sensitive papers from Britain’s late colonial era were not hidden away, but simply destroyed. These papers give the instructions for systematic destruction issued in 1961 after Iain Macleod, secretary of state for the colonies, directed that post-independence governments should not get any material that “might embarrass Her Majesty’s government”, that could “embarrass members of the police, military forces, public servants or others eg police informers”, that might compromise intelligence sources, or that might “be used unethically by ministers in the successor government”.
KlausGraf - am Montag, 20. August 2012, 13:15 - Rubrik: English Corner
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The collection of Joseph Schildkraut includes material concerning Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank. On 5th novembre 2012 it will be sold in New York:
" .... The archive, which has an estimated price of $20,000 to $30,000, was assembled by Joseph Schildkraut, the actor who portrayed Frank in the 1955 stage and 1959 film versions of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” It includes letters and documents from 1941 detailing Otto Frank’s efforts to enlist the help of the American retailer Nathan Straus, a friend from his days at Heidelberg University, in the family’s effort to escape Nazi-occupied Holland. It also includes some 50 letters written by Mr. Frank, Mr. Schildkraut and Mr. Schildkraut’s wife, Leonora, as well as annotated vintage photographs, a transcript of a 1939 letter from Otto to Anne, and a monogrammed handkerchief given by Mr. Frank to Mr. Schildkraut, who carried it onstage.
The wartime materials, which Mr. Straus gave to Mr. Schildkraut to help him prepare for his performance, are similar to those discovered in 2007 in a New Jersey warehouse space belonging to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, according to Peter Costanzo, a director of the rare books and photographs division at Doyle. ...."
Link: New York Timer, 14.8.2012
s. Haaretz, 16.8.2012
German Links: SpiegelOnline, 15.8.2012, ZeitOnline, 15.8.2012, FocusOnline, 15.8.2012
" .... The archive, which has an estimated price of $20,000 to $30,000, was assembled by Joseph Schildkraut, the actor who portrayed Frank in the 1955 stage and 1959 film versions of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” It includes letters and documents from 1941 detailing Otto Frank’s efforts to enlist the help of the American retailer Nathan Straus, a friend from his days at Heidelberg University, in the family’s effort to escape Nazi-occupied Holland. It also includes some 50 letters written by Mr. Frank, Mr. Schildkraut and Mr. Schildkraut’s wife, Leonora, as well as annotated vintage photographs, a transcript of a 1939 letter from Otto to Anne, and a monogrammed handkerchief given by Mr. Frank to Mr. Schildkraut, who carried it onstage.
The wartime materials, which Mr. Straus gave to Mr. Schildkraut to help him prepare for his performance, are similar to those discovered in 2007 in a New Jersey warehouse space belonging to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, according to Peter Costanzo, a director of the rare books and photographs division at Doyle. ...."
Link: New York Timer, 14.8.2012
s. Haaretz, 16.8.2012
German Links: SpiegelOnline, 15.8.2012, ZeitOnline, 15.8.2012, FocusOnline, 15.8.2012
Wolf Thomas - am Sonntag, 19. August 2012, 19:38 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Preservationists and archaeologists are warning that fighting in Syria’s commercial capital, Aleppo — considered the world’s oldest continuously inhabited human settlement — threatens to damage irreparably the stunning architectural and cultural legacy left by 5,000 years of civilizations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/arts/design/syrian-conflict-imperils-historical-treasures.html?_r=1&smid=tw-share
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/arts/design/syrian-conflict-imperils-historical-treasures.html?_r=1&smid=tw-share
KlausGraf - am Sonntag, 19. August 2012, 16:01 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/53433-with-key-filings-in-trials-loom-in-google-book-cases.html
After a round of key filings, two Authors Guild cases challenging Google’s ambitious library book-scanning program are on schedule for early fall trial dates. Final reply briefs were filed July 27 for the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, with that case now fully briefed and all but set for a November trial in Judge Harold Baer’s courtroom. And in the Authors Guild v. Google case, motions for summary judgment were also filed July 27, with a final round of reply briefs due September 17 and oral arguments set for October 9 before Judge Denny Chin.
After a round of key filings, two Authors Guild cases challenging Google’s ambitious library book-scanning program are on schedule for early fall trial dates. Final reply briefs were filed July 27 for the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, with that case now fully briefed and all but set for a November trial in Judge Harold Baer’s courtroom. And in the Authors Guild v. Google case, motions for summary judgment were also filed July 27, with a final round of reply briefs due September 17 and oral arguments set for October 9 before Judge Denny Chin.
KlausGraf - am Montag, 13. August 2012, 21:26 - Rubrik: English Corner
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