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CC license version 4.0: Helping meet the needs of open data publishers and users. Over the last few months, Creative Commons has been working on the next version of its license suite, version 4.0.

CC license version 4.0: Helping meet the needs of open data publishers and users

The goals of version 4.0 are wide-ranging, but the overall objective is clear: update the licenses so they are considerably more robust, yet easy to understand and use, for both existing communities and new types of users. A key community that version 4.0 aims to serve better are public sector agencies releasing data. Cloud Computing In Europe Really Needs A Boost. Information. Hopefully some useful content, information, hacks, and solutions. Public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/itw03003gben/ITW03003GBEN. What is big data? Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems.

What is big data?

5 Coolest Government Cloud Projects. The for-profit industry blazed the trail to cloud adoption, but the public sector is quickly catching up.

5 Coolest Government Cloud Projects

Since implementing its “Cloud First” migration strategy in 2010, the United States government has already moved 50 agency services to the cloud and saved billions of dollars, making it a world leader in government cloud. U.S. government clouds are already boasting some exceptional projects, in terms of both scope and disruptive potential. Here are the five government cloud projects that are truly fueling the public sector cloud revolution. 1. The Power of Open. Digital Fluency. @MarsCuriosity: People’s Insights: Volume 1, Issue 29. What is @MarsCuriosity?

@MarsCuriosity: People’s Insights: Volume 1, Issue 29

@MarsCuriosity is the Twitter account of NASA’s latest robot rover on Mars. @MarsCuriosity burst into the spotlight as the NASA social media team live tweeted its successful landing on Mars on August 5/6, 2012. Curiosity is on a mission to find out if life ever existed on the red planet, and to collect data for a future manned mission to Mars. The rover runs on a combination of nuclear and solar energy, and has been designed to operate for two years on the surface of Mars.

Curiosity launched from Florida, and travelled eight months and 566 million kilometres to Mars. Transmedia Storytelling In 2008, the three-person social media team created a Twitter account. The Global Education Conference Network - GlobalEdCon: Connecting Educators and Organizations Worldwide. What IT leaders say about big data. Data is the lifeblood of an organisation but its flow needs to be managed effectively.

What IT leaders say about big data

The challenge for IT chiefs is that data volumes are getting bigger with the explosion in the use of unstructured data and social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, holding valuable data organisations want to effectively exploit. The desire to sweat information assets for possible competitive advantage is being fuelled by the tough economic climate, but many IT leaders are struggling over how to extract value and empower business users in the face of a big data skills deficit and concerns over the governance, privacy and security of data.

IT leaders met at a recent Computer Weekly roundtable event, in association with Oracle, to discuss the possibilities and challenges of big data. 4GIP Network Evolution, Videos. 3rd Usage Area Workshop: Future Internet Initiative. Date: 28 and 29 June 2011 Venue: Hotel Husa President Park, Brussels, Belgium Co-organised by the EX-FI Support Action, the CONCORD Support Action and the European Commission.

3rd Usage Area Workshop: Future Internet Initiative

CORDIS: Technology Marketplace. VISION Cloud - Fullstory. mOSAIC Cloud. Higgs boson: landmark announcement clears key hurdle. The announcement two months ago that physicists have discovered a particle consistent with the famous Higgs boson cleared a formal hurdle on Monday with publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

Higgs boson: landmark announcement clears key hurdle

Two laboratories working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) had jointly announced on July 4 they had detected a new fundamental particle in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva. The discovery has been hailed as one of the biggest scientific achievements ever. Voyager’s long goodbye. Are we there yet?

Voyager’s long goodbye

Ed Stone, the project scientist for NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft, wants to know. Since their launch in 1977, the probes have ventured billions of kilo­metres beyond the outer planets. Home - Cloud4all. Think through your cloud plans. Most enterprise IT organizations focus more on technology than on thinking -- a sad tendency I've often pointed out.

Think through your cloud plans

Thus, I was happy to see InfoQ's Mark Little review an article by Steve Jones of CapGemini. Both see the same lack of thought in how enterprises use technology. In fact, it's worse than not thinking -- there's an active dislike of deeper consideration that gets expressed as ignoring or even disparaging planning, architecture, and design in IT. .: Venus-C :. Building a highly-scalable and flexible Cloud infrastructure VENUS-C is a project funded under the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme drawing its strength from a joint co-operation between computing service providers and scientific user communities to develop, test and deploy a large, Cloud computing infrastructure for science and SMEs in Europe.

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Experts "The great success of Generalized Worker Role in VENUS-C has emphasized to me that building a library of customizable Roles or Appliances is a powerful cloud programming model". "It was particularly revealing to see so many different applications being in need of cloud services, yet with rather diverse characteristics and diverse requirements". "I have improved my knowledge about commercial and academic cloud activities and interoperability topics, and increased my understanding of industrial cloud applications". IRMOS - Home. Three kinds of big data. In the past couple of years, marketers and pundits have spent a lot of time labeling everything ”big data.” The reasoning goes something like this: Everything is on the Internet.The Internet has a lot of data.Therefore, everything is big data.

Welcome to TClouds. OpenAIRE. Linked Data Basics for Techies - OpenOrg. Intended Audience. 5 star Open Data. What Is Digital Humanities and What’s it Doing in the Library? Tl;dr – Libraries and digital humanities have the same goals. Stop asking if the library has a role, or what it is, and start getting involved in digital projects that are already happening.

Advocate for new expanded roles and responsibilities to be able to do this. Become producers/creators in collaboration with scholars rather than servants to them. Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web. Tom Heath - Home. OLiA - Datasets. Open Definition. Projekt GRAMMIS. LREC Conferences. Orchestrating new forms of learning using technology. RDF - Semantic Web Standards. Datasets / NLP. BIS : Sebastian Hellmann.

1st Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web. Richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/imagemap.html. Richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/lod-datasets_2011-09-19_colored.html. Interlinking. Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space.