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Amnesia... dink, dink, dink
Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues Are
Band on the Run
Because the Night Belongs to Lovers
Bookseller at the Sunday market
Chess in the park
Christiana
Click Once Measure Twice
Crouching Tiger Sitting Girl
Drumming at Hvide Lam
Epistrophy by Vijay Iyer
Financial Interoperability
Field
Frequency and Volume
Gay Berlin
The Ghost of Elsinore
Heatmaps In PostGIS (with PL/R)
In the old galeria
Jammin at the B-Flat
Jantar Mantar
Lasses in the crosswalk
Life at the Side of the Road
Licensing Scientific Data Collections
Ostalgie
Orgelkonzert
Round About Midnight
Serving Data, Licenses, Citations, and Tracking Use
Shanghai Rising
Smokin' at the Hvide Lam
Sotto By Night
Stolen Moments in Golden Gate Park
Trinidad, CO
View With A Room
Voronoi Diagrams In PostGIS (with PL/R)
Where In The World is Titty Ho?
Who Owns the News?
2023
April
Geodata with SQLite
2022
June
The Biodiversity Literature Repository
<p>The Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR) is a research infrastructure developed by <a href="http://plazi.org" target="_blank">Plazi</a> and its partners. It comprises the <a href="https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/?page=1&size=20" target="_blank">BLR Community on Zenodo</a> hosted at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), and services to search and retrieve the data such as <a href="https://ocellus.info" target="_blank">Ocellus</a>, the <a href="https://test.zenodeo.org" target="_blank">Zenodeo API</a>, <a href="https://synospecies.plazi.org" target="_blank">Synospecies</a> and the <a href="https://biolitrepo.org" target="_blank">BLR website</a>.</p> <p>BLR’s focus is on biodiversity data liberated from scholarly publications, and it uses custom metadata linking to external vocabularies covering the needs of the biodiversity community. BLR is the single largest community in Zenodo. Its data is widely reused, for example by the <a href="https://gbif.org" target="_blank">Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)</a>.</p> <p>BLR is also conceived, built and managed to be open at every stage of data extraction/creation, production, and dissemination. In other words, it is <em>open by design</em>.</p>
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2021
May
Curriculum Vita
2020
April
Coronavirus Host Community
On Nicky’s Contact Tracing Proposal
Trust and Faith
A Well Oiled Machine Breaks Spectacularly
January
A Digital Library Everywhere
June
i can't breathe
2019
May
3D Printing
Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
Disruptive Technologies for International Development
Open Science and Open Data
Sensors
3D Printing
Blockchain
Sensors
Open Science and Open Data
Artificial Intelligence
June
Maintaining data integrity
March
“Open” health data and GDPR
January
RGB to Visible Spectrum
July
Under_Noise
2018
February
Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Data
Exploring the power of informal learning academies. more
Eudaimonia
July
A Circle Whose Center is Everywhere
Convex Hull
Set Operations in JavaScript
TOP Labs to Home
November
Demystifying Blockchains
you keep on using that term “blockchain.” I don’t think it means what you think it means more
Ovo je život
June
LED Strip
March
Mycoprinter
December
Spectrophotometer
2017
September
The Angel and the Acolytes
The Future of Science is Open
While open sharing of scientific tools, data and findings is morally and strategically good for science, it is also strategically good for countries where resources are constrained. Being able to reuse tools and data makes economic sense, and building upon existing work accelerates the development of a world-class scientific community and of scientific knowledge itself. more
Truth has no bias
August
Back to the Future of Data Sharing
Scientists have always shared data, just not freely, and not with *anyone* who wants the data. For the most part, scientists have shared data with their collaborators, and on occasion, with those who might especially ask them for it. But as science has become more data-intensive, and as the technologies, mainly the network speeds and computing power, to collect, manage, analyze and visualize data, have become more powerful and ubiquitous, the sharing has not kept pace. The relatively recent awareness of intellectual property rights in data have at times brought about a contrarian change — scientists applying unsuitable licenses to their content creating an unintended but significant legal hurdle. All this confusion makes it seem that the goal of seamless data sharing between those who create it and those who want it may be moving further away from our grasp. So what is one to do? more
The Crossroads Conundrum
Hold on, Let go, Be there
The Intergeneration Multiplied
Invasion, Exiles, Wall, Nudes
June
Ce que tu demandes, je me demande aussi
Duality in Love and Hate
In Panik
Leipzig
Line 22
On Equality
Scalable Data Sharing in GeoSciences
Us and Them
When a Virgin Spits
Who Owns Culture
May
Citizen vs. Science (song)
Geo vs. Medical/Health
a comparison between the geo and medical related activies in the open source world. more
Maxi Music
The One Thing To Read
Public Good v. Private Goods
The good news is that the private sector is taking over from the public agencies when it comes to innovation and investment in the medical/health domains. As such, the difficult but crucial technological advancements, especially when it comes to balancing the desire for sharing with the need for privacy, are going to come from the private sector. The bad thing is that we are already witnessing unintended side-effects to this. And the ugly part is that there will be many more undesirable consequences in the future. The necessary checks and balances—consent, governance, and reparations from harm—will have to come from the public sector, that is, both the government and the common people. more
Stealing Time
March
Copyright and the Use of Images as Biodiversity Data
Learning how to teach
An open ecosystem is vital for science, society and citizens
October
Ethics and Science
The Reformation APIs
Who Owns My Data?
Ownership, legally defined as a bundle of rights in the thing that is owned, arises from some provision in either common law or in statute that gives us rights in that thing in the first place. We own land because we bought it or we inherited it from someone who bought it or either we or our ancestors laid claim to it in the absence of anyone else contesting our claim. Similarly, we own other property because we bought it we were gifted it or we inherited it. If there are competing claims to our property, our own claim is weakened until we can prove otherwise. We own statutory rights in intellectual property based on our authorship of that work with sufficient creativity. However, none of these characteristics define health data. We produce health data through the act of existing, but we don’t have any creativity in it. The only thing we have is a right to privacy that gives us the prerogative to deny the use of our data by others. The question then becomes – should we own our health data or not? and what would be implications of doing so one way or another? more
Things I’d Like To Do
January
Twenty Things I Care About
2016
January
A Modern Love Story
Blessed are the Swordsmen
CUBE Critters
Everyone is a Mentor
Inexorable Inevitability
The Turtle and the Rabbit
What’s in a Name
why names matter in taxonomy, and how technology can help. more
July
The “A” List
Chutei Iki
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Helsinki-Coutonou Ensemble
Ingrid Jensen
Montreal Jazz Festival 2016
Oktopus
Sebastien
Talking in Silences
May
All That Glitters is Not Sold
A Governance Model for a Health Repo
A Health Privacy API
Reading Writings
October
Baillie Guard
Data Apps
Don't make web apps, make data apps. more
Geottingen
Present and future geo activities at Göttingen more
Maker Faire Berlin 2016
Yadav
expressjs app with socket.io
March
Banking Data
Benefits of opening data
Citizen vs. Science
दरबार-ए-वतन
From a Culture of Apps to a Culture of Health
Helping Move to Open
My Hurt Locker
February
The Cobbler Next Door
Frequencies
My Friend Usha
Three Faces of a Cube
A windswept beach in Ynyslas, Wales
June
Federal Data Insurance Corporation
Open Science in HSR
Rating TDM Friendliness of Publishers
August
Paris Plage
2015
August
A lawyer, a scientist, and a kid walk into a makerspace
Exploring the power of informal learning academies. more
Anticipation
Cruel Things
The Expected Wait Time Is…
For Someday You May Be A Refugee
Inclusive by Design
Legal Implications of Text and Data Mining
Originally created by the Creative Commons Science, Policy and Legal teams, subsequently revised by me for the web. more
Les Dieux Numeriques
Looking In, Looking Out
A Moment of Rest
October
Assessing the Economic Impact of TDM
A City
Deichtorhallen
Oniryczny
Open But Unequal
November
Badaloo
Explaining Legal Interoperability
Evil communications
Holy man
Royal Poinciana
Still Blowin’ on the CSM
There is something better than perfection
Things that confound me
June
Being Humane
Data Alliances Beyond Research
Did You See That ?
The Philosophical Framework of Social Contracts
Social Contracts
Social Contracts in the Digital Age
The Teeth Behind the Contract
January
Citizen Engagement in Science
July
The City as an App
Dictionary in a Webpage
L’Amour Vrai est Impossible
The Library of the Future
Smart or Scary?
The Unemotional Committer
The Young Republic
May
Ethics and Integrity of Data Collection and Sharing
A lot of people talk of licensing data. That is usually not applicable (as data are not licensable, at least not on the basis of copyright), and it is also possibly misleading. There are just as much, if not more, important issues of integrity and ethics, in both gathering and sharing data that come into play, particularly if humans are involved (whether the humans are the ones gathering the data or humans are the subjects of the data gathering exercise). more
Sharing v. Privacy
Sharing v. Privacy
While the need for privacy and security have to be respected, access to patient data is essential for continuous learning as well as for diagnosis of edge cases. But the former makes it difficult to achieve the latter creating a tension that seems intractable. A workshop organized by Creative Commons, with generous support from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, brought together those eager to resolve this tension, and make it possible to share data while respecting privacy. more
Version Controlled Journal
Sharing v. Privacy
While the need for privacy and security have to be respected, access to patient data is essential for continuous learning as well as for diagnosis of edge cases. But the former makes it difficult to achieve the latter creating a tension that seems intractable. A workshop organized by Creative Commons, with generous support from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, brought together those eager to resolve this tension, and make it possible to share data while respecting privacy. more
September
Les Ombres de La Charité
Maisons de Poupées
Norms Instead of Intellectual Property Laws
February
The Notion of Privacy
April
Open Access, Open Source, Open Data
All intellectual output of science can be categorized into literature, software and data. This presentation examines these three pillars, and explores what it means to be "open" as a commitment to practicing open science. more
March
The Next Big Thing
2014
December
A Manifesto for Science
Beyond Law
Changing the Culture
From Aye to Si
It Takes All Kinds to Make a Commons
Learning by Making, Teaching by Doing
The Deceptive Success of Copyright Licenses
The “P” Words
The Problem With Copyright
September
CC0 for Data
Creative Commons, Mt. View to Google, Mt. View, and back
The Incredible Agony of Inexactness
Most Datasets are Encumbered
Nob Hill, San Francisco to Creative Commons, Mt. View
Nob Hill, San Francisco to UC-Davis, Davis, CA
Pernety to Place des Vosges
Place des Vosges to Gare de l’Est
Rue de Lorette to Gare Saint-Charles
July
Chutney
May
Citizens Consent
An idea for more informed citizens based more
OA Decision Tree
Pre-processed TDM-ready archive
TDM Friendly Contract Boilerplate
TDM Workshops
Three Strategies for TDM
April
Fish Curry
The Inevitable Futility of Eventually
A Taxonomy of Sensors
Wary of Wearables
We Real Cool
February
Flashes, of Orange
Longmire
Luz, mediatinta y sombra
Nagesh, the Cook
Protected By Armed Response
Savitri
Siesta in the Alcove
Siesta in the Doorway
Traffic Police
2013
July
<strike>28</strike> 36 Years Later
Chiaroscuro of a Calico Cat
Desire to Learn
Inventions then cannot be a subject of property
Memories of Trini
My Brother and I
August
Afternoon Coffee at the Coffee House
Art Alley
Cape Town Kid
Cigarette break
Geddes Sisters
In the U-Bahn
Love art
Mujeres en mi Vida
My Love is a Sensor
Sólo un beso
Twin Towers
Waiting for the bus
Wrinkled
December
Fiddler of Jackson St, San Francisco, NY
Gaps Between Your Words
The Lady With The Beard
September
The Light at the Break of Dawn
The Mahogany Room (and a girl called Antoinette)
Take Me To Jerusalem
While We Were Looking At Our Bright Future, They Grew Up On the Side of the Road
You don’t know Jack
January
The Net Works Effect – Open Data Day 2013
April
The Three Locks
2012
April
Astronomy Data Chain
August
Changing Paths, Staying The Course
October
China-US Workshop on Data intensive Research
June
Emulating Enumerated Data Types in PostgreSQL
March
Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothin’ Left To Choose
July
We Do Need More Programmers
2011
October
Data Chain
Designing URIs
Licensing FAQ
Photosynthetic Light Data Chain
Senior Analyst, Geosciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Seismology Data Chain
Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Data Chain
The Paradigm, The Framework, and The Instantiation
Tree Allometry Data Chain
March
Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments
January
GEOSS Data Sharing Task Force
WG on Research, Data and Knowledge Sharing, UN Foundation
2010
October
Access to and Reuse of Public Sector Information
May
Interoperability As A Guiding Principle For Long-Term Archives
Archive '10 focused on the creation of archives of computer-based experiments – capturing and publishing entire experiments that are fully encapsulated, ready for immediate replay, and open to inspection. It brought together a few areas of the scientific community that represent fairly advanced infrastructure for archiving experiments and data (physicists and biomedical researchers) with two areas of the computer systems community for which significant progress is still needed (networks and compilers). The workshop also included experts in enabling technologies and publishing. more
September
Measuring Information Accessibility
Can we recognize free when we see it? Can we measure accessibility? Can we rate one source of information as being more or less accessible than another? more
PDL Functions
Role of Volunteered Geographic Information in Advancing Science, GIScience 2010, Zurich, Switzerland
January
OneSpace 2010
December
Policy Issues in Accessibility and Interoperability of Scientific Data
February
eInfrastructure for Scientific Data
2009
June
Coastal Flooding in African Cities
April
Licensing Geographic Data
March
Mashing Up Technology and Law
September
Policy Aware Geospatial Data
October
Raw Data vs Interpreted Data
February
Sita Sings the Blues
May
The Rise of User-Generated Content
2008
November
A Room Full of Dingos
August
Atlas Gerardi Mercatoris
General Atlas of the World
Tygers, Panthers, Lions and Robbers
June
Flooding in Cartagena Bay
March
IAI Training Institute on Data
Licensing Scientific Data
Volunteered Geographic Information
February
Law and the Rise of the Firm
Location and the Web
Why File When You Can Full-Text Search
September
Secretes of Nature
2007
October
CC Science Archive
Common Use Licensing of Scientific Data
Sharing v. Privacy Glossary
Intellectual Property Rights
Sensored City Press Coverage
Scientific Data License
Sensored City
Sensored City Press Coverage
Sharing v. Privacy Glossary
February
Community Ontology
exploring ontology relevant in the context of a community. more
Dashboard Data Model
A small presentation on data models that can be repurposed for many different end-uses. more
What Would Schumpeter Think Of Open Source
May
Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America
2006
October
CODATA Task Group on Data-Citation, Copenhagen, Denmark
CODATA Task Group on Data-Citation, Taipei, Taiwan
Information Commons of Science
Policy Coordinator for Science and Data, Creative Commons, Mountain View, CA
US-China Roundtable on Data-Intensive Science, Shanghai, China
What Can GIS Learn From Open Source
March
Toward A New Politics Of Intellectual Property
2005
October
Basics of GIS
I gave the following "lecture" to a bunch of IIT students visiting University of Waterloo under a program organized by <a href="http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~keshav/">Srinivasan Keshav</a>. more
Large Datasets
February
London Cranes
2004
February
So This is How it Happened
2000
June
Are you ready to do business online?
December
Citizen-Sourced Data Commons
governance implications for <b>Open Science</b> more
January
EIA of Three Soapstone Mines
1996
January
Information Systems in Pollution Management and Control
Workshop on Indigenous Peoples Profiles
August
She
1995
April
The Economic Supply of Biodiversity in West Kalimantan
1980
January
AJs Links
Itinerant Open Science/Data Advocate
Anthony Seeger
Appropriate Scale
As We May Click
As We May Think
Arc 2 Earth
BINGOs
Babel of Licenses
Black Bean Casserole
Boatema Boateng
Braised Celery Hearts
CODATA 2012, Annual Conference of CODATA, Taipei, Taiwan
Cellphones as Geographic Remote Sensors
Client Driven
CollaborativeCollectionOfCaseStudies.ss
Compiling Apps On Macs
Community Ontology
Computing Stack
Corn Pudding
Crab Cakes
Creative Destruction
Creative Commons
Curried Rice Beans And Vegetable Pilaf
Data Citation Task Group meeting
Developing Markets Anti Americanism
Data Custodianship
Development Alternatives
Different Roles of Technology
Digital Access Index
Digital Access Index India
Does Trust Beget Trustworthiness
Digital Manaslu
Doubling down on Markdown for science
E F Schumacher
ESRI Projections to Proj4 Text
Emergence of Trust Networks Under Uncertainty
Eliza on Emacs
Fanfare For The Silent Man - 2
Fanfare For The Silent Man - 1
Fanfare For The Silent Man - 3
Fanfare For The Silent Man - 4
Free Software
Free and Open Source
Freedom to Innovate
Gazpacho Andaluz
GeoAnalytics
Geographic Information Systems in Developing Countries
Google Maps Mapping Platform
Governance Model
Ginger Tomato Chutney
Government Of Trinidad And Tobago
Grow Up
Growing up of the Baby God
Hardware Layer
Heini Vihemki
Help is Here
Home Page
Herb Braised Chanterelles
How Many Licenses Is Too Many
I Have A Dream
I hardly knew you, eh
Indian Institute Of Management
Introducing the CC Science Advisory Board
Ivan Illich
Jerusalem Artichoke Pancakes
Kalpana Prakash
Karen Cook
Joint Forest Management
Kill
Land Information And Computer Graphics Facility
The Language of Technology vs. the Technology of Language
Lemon Pound Cake
Letting Education Get In The Way Of Learning
Licensing Regime
Low Cost
Lower Cost
Mapping For Change
Market Driven
Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Master of Science
Michael Curry
Mixed Mushroom Sweet Potato Stuffing
New Zealand Open Data Conference
Not Everything is Equally Free
Oh What Should I Do With You
On de daily breadline
One Datasource Many Views
One Blind Man
Onerous Licensing Regime
Open, But Not as Usual
Open Document Format
Open Document Gains Ground
Open GIS for Developing Countries
Open Hardware Licensing
Open Knowledge Festival, Helsinki, Finland
Open Source Open Wallet
Pamela Samuelson
PLOS and figshare make open science publishing more open
Perl Ref is an Array
Papaya Jicama Salad
PhD Two Dot Oh
Pitfalls of JFM
Politics of Participatory Forest Conservation
ReadLine
Red Lentil Soup
Remembering Lee Dirks
Restrictive Licensing
Restrictive Software
Roasted Parsnips with Orange Zest
Roasted Maple Glazed Baby Carrots with Dried Grapes
Rubbish for Nesara
Ruggedized Intel PC
Salmon With Ginger Salsa
SQLite
Simon Denizart Trio
Simple Economics of Open Source
Situated Student Learning and Spatial Informational Analysis
Small Is Beautiful
So Let It Be Written So Let It Be Done
Sort Array of Hashes
Social Networking Patent
Spatial Data and the End of Democracy
Spicy Avocado Sauce
Spinach Wild Rice and Shrimp Salad
Square Pegs In Round Holes
Sputnik Chortled
Srinivasan Keshav
Statement of Purpose
Stir Fried String Beans Shanghai Style
Streaming Databases
Sunlight of My Mind
Tequila Steamed Grouper
Teaching Young Kids
Test to Destruction
Text-mining limited access corpuses
Thai Curry Penne
That Orange Smell of November
The World Bank
Three Axioms of Copyright Licenses (and a Conclusion)
Tofu And Bok Choy Stir Fry
Tony Kushner – An Undoing World
Topo Philia
Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
Trust Building Via Risk Taking
Viability of Ideas
Vietnamese Shrimp Curry
What Can SDI Learn From Open Source
I gave a presentation at the GSDI9 conference in [Santiago de Chile]. The disconnect between most of the folks who think SDI and open source was very apparent. I talked about the concept of a [Spatial Data Commons] based on the presentation on [Global Information Commons] by [Paul Uhlir]. The idea of a spatial data commons was received very well by the audience. more