OpenUni Open Access. In deze rubriek staat iedere maand een ander issue centraal, waarover de meningen sterk zijn verdeeld. Deze maand: Toegankelijke wetenschap In de toekomst zal alle wetenschappelijke kennis voor het oprapen liggen. Althans, als het aan de ondertekenaars van de Berlin Declaration on Open Access ligt. In deze verklaring uit 2003 wordt gepleit voor vrije beschikbaarheid van onder- zoeksliteratuur door middel van publicatie in gratis toegankelijke internet journals. De stelling van deze maand: Onderzoek dat met publieke middelen is betaald, moet gratis toegankelijk zijn Toegang tot traditionele wetenschappelijke publicaties kost een aardige smak geld. Volgens onderzoek van de Australische econoom John Houghton kan Open Access de Nederlandse samenleving een voordeel opleveren van 133 miljoen euro per jaar, voornamelijk door het wegvallen van de abonnementskosten. Voorbeelden van open access-initiatieven zijn de Public Library of Science (PLOS), BioMed en arXiv.org.
Google defines "open. Last week I sent an email to Googlers about the meaning of "open" as it relates to the Internet, Google, and our users. In the spirit of openness, I thought it would be appropriate to share these thoughts with those outside of Google as well. At Google we believe that open systems win.
They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses. Many companies will claim roughly the same thing since they know that declaring themselves to be open is both good for their brand and completely without risk. After all, in our industry there is no clear definition of what open really means. It is a Rashomon-like term: highly subjective and vitally important. The topic of open seems to be coming up a lot lately at Google. This is happening often enough for me to conclude that we need to lay out our definition of open in clear terms that we can all understand and support.
Open systems are just the opposite. Who Is The Openest Of Them All? If there is one thing I noticed this past year, it is that companies seem to be tripping over themselves more than ever before to claim the mantle of openness. Openness is now a marketing mantra. Facebook kicked things off in May by opening up its social network to outside developers through a comprehensive set of APIs. Google responded by trying to “out open” Facebook with the launch of its own platform for social networking apps, OpenSocial (which was more open than Facebook’s APIs, but still not open enough for some people).
Google also introduced its open-source mobile operating system, Android, which prompted even old-school, closed-network mobile carriers like Verizon and AT&T to play the open card. And in the face of the success of open-source blogging software WordPress, Six Apart finally made its rival Moveable Type open source as well. Building a product or service on top of open standards is held as one of the highest virtues in technology. But don’t be fooled. GoogleOpen Convenient For Them.
Yesterday, Google published a long manifesto on the “meaning of open” in the form of an email to all employees republished as a blog post. In it, senior VP of product management Jonathan Rosenberg, makes an eloquent argument for why open systems always win and urges Google’s employees to always strive to be open when designing products. An open Internet spurs innovation and brings more consumers on board, which ultimately means more searches and increased use of Web applications.
The gist of his argument is that a bigger, better Internet is good for Google. He writes that Google employees should resist the impulse to create closed products and systems, and even makes a swipe at Apple for doing so (bold added for emphasis): . . . open systems win. This is counter-intuitive to the traditionally trained MBA who is taught to generate a sustainable competitive advantage by creating a closed system, making it popular, then milking it through the product life cycle.
But don’t be fooled. Everyware A.Greenfield. GerdLeonhard EndOfControl free PDFs. Open Living Labs – The European Network of Living Labs. Living Labs: hoop of hype? Steeds vaker kom je in beleidsstukken, in jaarverslagen en op conferenties de term “Living Lab” tegen als het over product- en diensteninnovatie gaat. Klinkt goed, maar wat betekent het en waarom zijn Living Labs voor ons relevant?
Living Labs zijn test- en ontwikkelomgevingen buiten het ontwikkellab, in een realistische context, vaak in een begrensd gebied als een stad of een wijk. Het gaat om samenwerkingsverbanden tussen bedrijven, kennisinstellingen, overheden en gebruikers die nieuwe producten, diensten en businessmodellen ontwikkelen in een realistische context. Denk aan geavanceerde mobiele telefoons die op locatie worden getest door jongerenwerkers, maar ook aan nieuwe zorgconcepten waarbij ouderen via glasvezel contact hebben met het ziekenhuis en hun dierbaren. Enerzijds zijn Living Labs testbeds voor het in een realistische setting testen van nieuwe producten en diensten, anderzijds zijn het hands-on ontwikkelplatforms. Voordelen Kwaliteit Perspectieven op kwaliteit. Thema’s. London kickstarts an Open Data revolution.
London’s web and software developers got a major boost today – one that will see them able to create all sorts of exciting apps to improve life in the UK’s capital. London Mayor Boris Johnson today announced the launch of a scheme to make the capital Britain’s first ‘Open Data’ city. The London Datastore will make available for the first time a wide range of data about the city. The data will be open for all to use for free in Google Docs format. Data to be opened up includes crime rates, planning decisions, road traffic accidents, house prices and much more. This is an almighty gift to developers who have long bemoaned the way data about public life is kept under lock and key. The full list of datasets available at launch on 29 January 2010 can be found here. The data will allow all sorts of new apps to be created. The announcement follows a recent central government move to open up the UK’s mapping and post code data without charge for the first time.
The Open Data movement. London 'Datastore' with hundreds of sets. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will on Thursday launch a website hosting hundreds of sets of data - including previously unreleased information - about the capital, as part of a new scheme intended to encourage people to create "mashups" of data to boost the city's transparency and accountability. Channel 4 will also be offering up to £200,000 through its 4ip fund to help develop the most innovative uses of the data. To announce the site, Johnson will take part in a live linkup on Thursday to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with President Barack Obama's chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra, who has overseen the development of the US government's "data.gov" project, which aims to put all US government data onto the web for others to use.
The London Datastore, as it is called, will be fully open from 29 January. It will be the first such "datastore" for a city in the UK. Data.gov. CityofChicago - City Data - DataSF - Liberating City Data. OpenEnergy InfoWorldwide. OSiM World - Welcome. Open Handset Alliance Android. OpenSim ulator. Open Data Initiative MIT. The Massachusetts Open Data Initiative is working to make public data available and accessible to the citizens of the Commonwealth. Our Data Catalog is an inventory of public data in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . MassApps Data Catalog Education Data Energy Data Environmental Data Geographic Data Municipal Data Transportation Data Mass Department of Transportation Executive Office Data MBTA Data Legacy Data Catalog Get Involved!
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