Archive for the ‘Science’ Category

NASA Opens Up Space Image Library

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Through a partnership with the fine folks at the Internet Archive, NASA is making its image collection available to the public online for the first time. The collection will be indexed and searchable and represent at first 21 of NASA's collection. There is apparently a plan over the ...

Australia to Release Some Data Under Creative Commons

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Under US copyright, facts about the world are not copyrightable. They are not patentable either but that doesn't stop some entities from charging for access to such data. Especially when it is gather at expense. I'm guessing that is why the Australian government is planning an experiment ...

Harvard Votes on Open Access Today

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Man I love Twitter - I've been out of the loop for a while due to my mac being in the shop and struggling with my dinosaur PC is no fun, sorry for my absence. But today Paul Jones from UNC mentioned this on Twitter and I got all giddy. Turns ...