The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way several times. IT companies make a lot of money selling equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying. Every bit of data ever produced on any computer is copied somewhere. The digital economy is thus run on a river of copies. Unlike the mass-produced reproductions of the machine age, these copies are not just cheap, they are free.
Our digital communication network has been engineered so that copies flow with as little friction as possible. Indeed, copies flow so freely we could think of the internet as a super-distribution system, where once a copy is introduced it will continue to flow through the network forever, much like electricity in a superconductive wire. We see evidence of this in real life. Once anything that can be copied is brought into contact with internet, it will be copied, and those copies never leave. Even a dog knows you can't erase something once its flowed on the internet.
What are Open Textbooks?
The Short Answer: “Open textbooks” are free, online, open-access textbooks. The content of open textbooks is licensed to allow anyone to use, download, customize, or print without expressed permission from the author.
CrossLoop simplifies the process of securely working with friends located in different physical locations and across different network environments. CrossLoop enables you to see the screen and control the mouse and keyboard on a remote computer. It is as
Wake-on-LAN (or WOL), which—as the name suggests—turns on your PC through your local network. Wake-on-LAN is a breeze to set up and use on your local network, and with a little legwork you can set it up so you can wake your computer away from your hom
BRII – Berkeley Research Impact Initiative
co-sponsored by UC Berkeley's Vice Chancellor for Research and the University Librarian
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What is BRII?
The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) supports faculty members who want to make their journal articles free to all readers immediately upon publication. An 18-month pilot program, BRII will subsidize, in various degrees, fees charged to authors who select open access or paid access publication. The pilot will also yield data that can be used to gauge faculty interest in — as well as the budgetary impacts of — these new modes of scholarly communication on the Berkeley campus.
The next CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI6), will be held at the University of Geneva on the 17th-19th of June 2009 (view map, slide show of the building).
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This project, funded for two years starting September 2008 by the NSF Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Program will develop a suite of tools and services to encourage formation of virtual organizations in scientific communities of various sizes, such as conference groups and departmental research groups, and allow such organizations to filter out relevant documents from various input streams, select and enhance the quality of bibliographic data associated with the organization, and attract students, teachers and researchers to contribute to activity of the organization.
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OCLC Board of Trustees and Members Council to convene Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship
DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 13 January 2009—OCLC Members Council and the OCLC Board of Trustees will jointly convene a Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship to represent the membership and inform OCLC on the principles and best practices for sharing library data. The group will discuss the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records with the OCLC membership and library community.
Show all the table names in the database through the code: I am trying to get the names of all the tables,forms,query,reports in the database through the code.
Our goal is to design and implement D-FOAF, a distributed authentication and trust infrastructure without a centralised authority. D-FOAF will be a backbone for trust applications based on social relationships and will establish idenity of users similar to the way we establish identify and trust in real life.
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F. Abel, J. Coi, N. Henze, A. Koesling, D. Krause, и D. Olmedilla. Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC/ASWC2007), Busan, South Korea, том 4825 из LNCS, стр. 1--14. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Verlag, (ноября 2007)
F. Abel, J. Coi, N. Henze, A. Koesling, D. Krause, и D. Olmedilla. Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and
2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC/ASWC2007), Busan, South Korea, том 4825 из LNCS, стр. 1--14. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Verlag, (ноября 2007)
F. Abel, J. Coi, N. Henze, A. Koesling, D. Krause, и D. Olmedilla. WEBIST 2009 - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference
on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal,
March 23-26, 2009, стр. 184-191. INSTICC Press, (2009)
F. Abel, J. Coi, N. Henze, A. Koesling, D. Krause, и D. Olmedilla. The Semantic Web, 6th International Semantic Web Conference,
2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007,
Busan, Korea, November 11-15, 2007, том 4825 из Lecture Notes in Computer Science, стр. 1-14. Springer, (2007)
S. Agarwal, и B. Sprick. 6th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, volume 3590 of Lecture 2 https://javacc.dev.java.net, стр. 348--357. Springer, (2005)
G. Ajuwon, и L. Rhine. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 25 (3):
175-185(сентября 2008)M3: Article; Accession Number: 33625078; Ajuwon, Grace Ada 1 Rhine, Lenny 2; Affiliation: 1: *Reference and Information Services Librarian, E. Latunde Odeku Medical Library, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and 2: †University Librarian Emeritus, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; Source Info: Sep2008, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p175; Subject Term: INFORMATION & communication technologies; Subject Term: DIGITAL divide; Subject Term: INTERNET -- Access control; Subject Term: ELECTRONIC information resources; Subject Term: MEDICAL libraries; Subject Term: AFRICA, Sub-Saharan; NAICS/Industry Codes: 519120 Libraries and Archives; Number of Pages: 11p; Document Type: Article.