net critique blog by Geert Lovink
By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010
What is scholarly communication? Should higher education be considered a public good? How will we be able to structure the zettabytes of the digital universe? What is the trend in open access and public depositing? Scholar Charlotte Hess addresses her main concerns regarding digital commons, and knowledge commons in particular. As an Associate Dean for [...]
By morgancurrie, November 13, 2010
As policy adviser of distribution technologies for the NPO, ‘Nederlandse Publieke Omroep’ (Dutch Public Broadcasting), Bram Tullemans finds himself situated at the heart of the debate on open video distribution. He has been occupied with Uitzending Gemist, a Dutch service website which provides television programs from the public channels online short after they were broadcasted [...]
By Fenneke Mink Annelies Termeer presents the Celluloid Remix online video contest organized by EYE Film Institute Netherlands and Images for the Future. In this 7 years during project four public archive institutes digitize, save, preserve and share the Dutch audiovisual heritage for the future. What comes after digitization is the question Termeer answers by [...]
Peter B. Kaufman is president and founder of Intelligent Televisio0n, a research institute focussed on video developments concerning culture & education. He gave four key points for introduction which he will turn further into in the next sessions: Force of law, technology and history is on the side of liberty and access. To quote Jean-Jacques [...]
by Olga Paraskevopoulou Volker Ralf Grassmuck opened the first session of the third day of the conference that aimed to address the question of “how to pay the costs of keeping things free”. He presented the “The sharing license”: a legal permission for online sharing of published copyright protected works, for personal non-commercial purposes, subject [...]
by Catalina Iorga Michael Dale is an advocate for open standard and free video formats for the web. The past two years he has lead open source development for video on Wikipedia in partnership with Kaltura, and worked closely with the Mozilla foundation and the Open Video Alliance. Dale is also the lead developer for [...]
Hans Westerhof, deputy director at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and program manager of the Images for the Future project spoke about the cost that access bears on archives in a digital world in the panel Materiality and Sustainability of Culture. The traditional archive of Sound & Vision consists out of 21 vaults, [...]
by Nicola Bozzi With her 11-year long experience at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, Inge Angevaare knows a good deal about archiving. Her presentation pointed out a very important and often underestimated aspect of digital information: its long-term preservation. As pointed out in the past by theorists like Geert Lovink (the [...]
by Nicola Bozzi As a part of the Revenue Models panel at the Ecommons conference, the presentation by Jaromil and Marco Sachy focused on the decentralization of currencies and credit. The former began by introducing their own website, dyndy.net, an online lab providing “Tools, practices and experiences for the conceptualization, development and deployment of currency”; [...]
by Catalina Iorga Eelco Ferwerda, the president of the recently established Association of European University Presses, has been involved in electronic publishing since 1995. Ferwerda is also the Project Manager of OAPEN and leads the work on its Open Access Publication model. He received the Dutch SURFshare Open Access award in recognition of his work [...]