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Permablitzing is a way of turning lawn into micro-farm and suburban house into urban homestead. The term 'Permablitz' is, in fact, a portmanteau of the words 'Permaculture' and ‘Backyard Blitz.’. Permaculture is a design system for sustainable agriculture. Backyard Blitz was an extra-cheesy Australian reality TV show wherein a team of pro ...
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- Open Data Domains
- Status Report 2007
1. Open data is data that can be freely used, shared and built-on by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose. 2. OpenDefinition.org:“Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.” - 3. From the Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data "Open...
1. The Open Definitiongives full details on the requirements for ‘open’ data and content. Key features are: 1. Availability and Access: the data must be available as a whole and at no more than a reasonable reproduction cost, preferably by downloading over the internet. The data must also be available in a convenient and modifiable form. 1. Reuse a...
3 Key Rules
"There are three key rules we recommend following when opening up data: Keep it simple.Start out small, simple and fast. There is no requirement that every dataset must be made open right now. Starting out by opening up just one dataset, or even one part of a large dataset, is fine — of course, the more datasets you can open up the better. Remember this is about innovation. Moving as rapidly as possible is good because it means you can build momentum and learn from experience — innovation is...
The Four Steps
"These are in very approximate order – many of the steps can be done simultaneously. 1. Choose your dataset(s). Choose the dataset(s) you plan to make open. Keep in mind that you can (and may need to) return to this step if you encounter problems at a later stage. 1. Apply an open license. 1. Determine what intellectual property rights exist in the data. 1. Apply a suitable ‘open’ license that licenses all of these rights and supports the definition of openness discussed in the section above...
Why open data may be more important than open source
Ian Davis: "data outlasts code which lead me to then assert that therefore open data is more important than open source. This appears to be controversial. First, it’s important to note what I did not say. I did not say that open source is not important. On the contrary I said that open source was extremely important and it has sounded the death knell for proprietary software. Later speakers at the conference referred to this statement as controversial too :). (What I actually meant to say was...
Open Data Policies
RECOMMENDATIONS from the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM (USACM): 1. Data published by the government should be in formats and approaches that promote analysis and reuse of that data. 1. Data republished by the government that has been received or stored in a machine-readable format (such as online regulatory filings) should preserve the machine-readability of that data. 1. Information should be posted so as to also be accessible to citizens with limitations and disabilities. 1. Citiz...
Open Data Organizations
1. CODATA 2. Science Commons 3. Free Our Data (The Guardian technology section), http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/index.php 4. The Open Knowledge Foundation 5. Talis 6. Web2Express.org, Open data on semantic web 7. Linking Open Data on the Semantic Web
Open Data Companies
"“Open data is to media what open source is to technology. Open data is an approach to content creation that explicitly recognizes the value of implicit user data. The internet is the first medium to give a voice to the attention that people pay to it. Successful open data companies listen for and amplify the rich data that their audiences produce.”(http://www.attentiontrust.org/node/430) 1. Adaptive Blue- Extended browsing 2. Aggregate Knowledge- Outsourced recommendations 3. Atten.TV- Atten...
The concept of Open Datais used in different contexts, i.e. mostlhy as either the availability of scientific raw data and as open access to publicly funded, 'government' information. (There is of course an obvious overlap when the scientific data are produced by public funding or government institutions.)
Peter Suber: "With or without mandates, more governments committed themselves to OA for publicly funded data. Norway adopted an OA mandate for public geodata. Canada, Ireland, and Australia began providing OA to publicly funded digital mapping data, without a mandate. After long resistance, the UK Ordnance Survey began to do the same, at least expe...
Examples of global action networks include the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, which has increased access to effective treatments, saving 3.5 million lives; the Forest Stewardship Council, which has certified 300 million acres of forests
These single-issue legislatures would be chosen by lottery from the political jurisdiction, with each single-issue legislature consisting of 300 people. Each person chosen would serve for a three-year term. Terms would be staggered so that each year 100 new people begin, and 100 people finish. All adult citizens in the political jurisdiction ...
This " Reverse Dominance Hierarchy ," as Boehm calls it, depends on the rank and file banding together "to deliberately dominate their potential master if they wish to remain equal." Boehm extends his analysis to argue that the processes of group selection originally advanced by David Sloan Wilson can account for the evolution of altruistic ...
Thus a single negative rating means you have a 100 percent negative rating score. The problem here is compounded by the fact that the Xbox Live screen reports this as 100 percent of “people you’ve played with” rather than “people who have rated you,” which is actually the case."
= the Chinese 'reciprocal' way of sharing IP Discussion Bunnie: "About a year and a half ago, I wrote about a $12 “Gongkai” cell phone (pictured above) that I stumbled across in the markets of Shenzhen, China. My most striking impression was that Chinese ...
