Open Source Database and Website to Provide Free and Open Access to Inactive U.S. Patents in the Public Domain

Siobhan Davies RePlay provides open access to a significant collection of performances, photographs, and text-based materials, and includes a large number of rehearsal tapes that offer a unique insight to the dance making process. Following the development of simple capture technologies, Davies’ dancers have recorded and reviewed their own movement experiments or ‘scratches’. These previously private memory objects enter the public domain via the archive. Though raw and unedited captures they become traces of an intelligent process that is rarely available for public scrutiny. When made available alongside films and other documents relating to performances, these scratches offer a unique insight to the choices made by the artists; what is left out and what is featured. It might be argued that these scratches accrue cultural capital through their inclusion in the archive, and when distributed online. This article examines the extent to which the tapes generate new readings of dance, transmit new knowledge, create new kinds of tools for reconstruction and/or prompt a reconsideration of the relationship between dancer, choreographer and audience to re-conceptualise the dance-making process. It will be argued that the tapes broaden expectations of what is traditionally held within an archive, revealing the rich potential for dance archives to enhance and enrich our understanding of dance.

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Scientific Authorship and E-commons

Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science ◽

10.4018/978-1-61692-014-2.ch012 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 193-205

Author(s):

Luc Schneider

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Open Source ◽

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Scientific Community ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Source Model ◽

Public Domain ◽

Scientific Publications ◽

Scientific Authorship ◽

The Web

This contribution tries to assess how the Web is changing the ways in which scientific knowledge is produced, distributed and evaluated, in particular how it is transforming the conventional conception of scientific authorship. After having properly introduced the notions of copyright, public domain and (e-)commons, I will critically assess James Boyle's (2003, 2008) thesis that copyright and scientific (e-) commons are antagonistic, but I will mostly agree with the related claim by Stevan Harnad (2001a,b, 2008) that copyright has become an obstacle to the accessibility of scientific works. I will even go further and argue that Open Access schemes not only solve the problem of the availability of scientific literature, but may also help to tackle the uncontrolled multiplication of scientific publications, since these publishing schemes are based on free public licenses allowing for (acknowledged) re-use of texts. However, the scientific community does not seem to be prepared yet to move towards an Open Source model of authorship, probably due to concerns related to attributing credit and responsability for the expressed hypotheses and results. Some strategies and tools that may encourage a change of academic mentality in favour of a conception of scientific authorship modelled on the Open Source paradigm are discussed.

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The politics of the libre commons

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v11i9.1403 ◽

2006 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

David M. Berry ◽

Giles Moss

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Public Domain ◽

Radical Democracy ◽

Free Software ◽

Peer Production ◽

Cultural Space ◽

The Public ◽

Creative Commons ◽

The World ◽

The Creation

The project of ‘free culture’ is committed to the creation of a cultural space, rather like the ‘public domain’, seeking to complement/replace that of proprietary cultural commodities and privatized meaning. This has been given a new impetus with the birth of the Creative Commons. This organization has sought to introduce cultural producers across the world to the possibilities of sharing, co–operation and commons–based peer–production by creating a set of interwoven licenses for creators to append to their artwork, music and text. In this paper, we chart the connections between this movement and the early Free Software and Open Source movements and question whether underlying assumptions that are ignored or de–politicized are a threat to the very free culture that the project purports to save. We then move to suggest a new discursive project linked to notions of radical democracy.

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Thank you reviewers – CytoJournal 2011

CytoJournal ◽

10.4103/1742-6413.91243 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

pp. 23 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Vinod B. Shidham ◽

Richard M. DeMay ◽

Martha B. Pitman

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Public Domain ◽

Scientific Meeting ◽

Program Committee ◽

Annual Scientific ◽

Scientific Program ◽

The Public ◽

Annual Scientific Meeting ◽

Peer Reviewers ◽

American Society

CytoJournal, with its continued contribution of scientific cytopathology literature to the public domain under open access (OA) charter, thanks its dedicated peer reviewers for devoting significant efforts, time, and resources during 2011. The abstracts of poster-platform submissions to the 59th Annual Scientific Meeting (November 2011) of the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) in Baltimore, MD, USA, were peer reviewed by the ASC Scientific Program Committee.

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Open Educational Resources in Africa

Advances in Library and Information Science - Handbook of Research on Information and Records Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-7740-0.ch008 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 108-120

Author(s):

Stephen Tsekea

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Public Domain ◽

Open Educational Resources ◽

The Internet ◽

Learning Resources ◽

Digital Learning ◽

Publicly Funded ◽

The Public ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Digital Learning Resources

The open access movement came as a result of the rising cost of learning materials and the need for having publicly funded research or works available on the public domain. This is a movement which is in support of having educational learning resources freely available on the internet. Despite the intellectual properly issues surrounding use of learning resources, many institutions in Africa are adopting these digital learning resources. The chapter documents how the OER movement started, its advantages and disadvantages, copyright and licensing issues, models, and challenges in adopting OERs.

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Open Access High Throughput Drug Discovery in the Public Domain: A Mount Everest in the Making

Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology ◽

10.2174/138920110792927757 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 11 (7) ◽

pp. 764-778 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

Author(s):

Anuradha Roy ◽

Peter R. McDonald ◽

Sitta Sittampalam ◽

Rathnam Chaguturu

Keyword(s):

Drug Discovery ◽

Open Access ◽

High Throughput ◽

Public Domain ◽

Mount Everest ◽

The Public

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ON REGULATION OF THE PLACEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INFORMATION SUBJECT TO EXPORT CONTROL IN OPEN ACCESS

Innovatics and Expert Examination ◽

10.35264/1996-2274-2020-2-178-187 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 178-187

Author(s):

Alexey B. Logunov ◽

Denis V. Olshevsky ◽

Alexey V. Grenchikhin

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Public Domain ◽

Export Control ◽

The Public ◽

Technological Information ◽

Foreign Countries

The article provides an assessment of the experience of leading foreign countries in regulating the placement (publication) of the results of scientific and technological activities in the public domain and the presence of legally established restrictions on their distribution in terms of protecting their scientific, technological and industrial potential, including from the standpoint of export control.

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Taking “Use Case” Inventory of Available Open Shared Visuals for Teaching and Learning From Searches in the Federated Creative Commons Search (Old)

10.4018/978-1-7998-6496-7.ch009 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 298-314

Keyword(s):

Instructional Design ◽

Open Source ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Public Domain ◽

Use Case ◽

Text Search ◽

Web Based ◽

The Public ◽

Creative Commons ◽

Small Set

In instructional design, there are a number of common “use cases” for acquiring open-source shared visuals and images: breaking up gray text, driving attention, sparking the imagination, illustrating concepts, providing examples, explaining phenomena, representing reality, depicting models, and others. The instating of licensure and open-source releases has meant that there are literally hundreds of millions of such visuals available online, with varying levels of releases (with variations on the following dimensions: editability, [non]crediting, [non]commercial usages, [non]required sharing, all the way up to full release into the public domain with no restrictions). The federated Creative Commons Search (old) enables exploration and acquisition across a range of web-based platforms for digital images based on text search. When pursuing actual images for particular usage, the abundance of shared imagery suddenly becomes small-set and limited. This work explores this phenomenon and provides some ideas for mitigation.

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Digital Library and Repositories

Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-767-1.ch010 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 184-205

Author(s):

Bharat Kumar

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Digital Library ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Digital Libraries ◽

Public Domain ◽

The State ◽

Institutional Repositories ◽

The Public ◽

Internet Searching ◽

Custom Made

This chapter discusses digital libraries and repositories. The purpose of this research is to identify digital libraries and repositories in India available in the public domain. It highlights the state of digital libraries and repositories in India. The digital libraries and repositories were identified through a study of the literature, as well as internet searching and browsing. The resulting digital libraries and repositories were explored to study their collections. Use of open source software especially for the creation of institutional repositories is found to be common. However, major digital library initiatives such as the Digital Library of India use custom-made software.

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