Posts Categorized: sessions

A contribution to a critique of free culture: From Anti-Copyright to the Creative Anti-Commons

By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010

Dymitri Kleiner is a software developer working on projects that investigate the political economy of the internet, and the ideal of workers’ self-organization of production as a form of class struggle. Born in the USSR, Dmytri grew up in Toronto and now lives in Berlin. He is a founder of the Telekommunisten Collective, which provides [...]

Materiality and Sustainability of Culture – Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard and the Cost Model for Digital Preservation project

By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010

by Nicola Bozzi Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Atomic Physics, but she has been working for media archiving institutions involved in digital preservation – like the Aarhus University Library and the Royal Library – for many years now. Even if digital archives don’t sound as complex as theoretical atomic physics, in her presentation [...]

Materiality and Sustainability of Culture – Inge Angevaare and the costs of digital preservation

By morgancurrie, November 13, 2010

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 [...]

Revenue Models – Jaromil and Marco Sachy tell us about Cyclos and their own dyndy.net

By morgancurrie, November 13, 2010

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”; [...]

Eelco Ferwerda Talks About Open Access in Academic Publishing

By morgancurrie, November 13, 2010

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 [...]