Winston sat at his usual table in the Chestnut Tree Cafe, it was unusually busy on this hot, sunny day. The waiter passed his table then returned with the gin bottle; filling his glass with the gin infused with cloves that the cafe was famous for.
Another paper from LDOW2008 that I worked on with Tom Heath and Paul Miller. The Open Data Commons licensing is about providing clear licensing for data shared on the web. It's not like Creative Commons because it is for data that doesn't qualify for Copyright protection, whereas Creative Commons relies on an underlying Copyright ownership.
Open Data Commons, A License for Open Data is predominantly a position paper explaining what's been happening with Open Data Commons and its predecessor the Talis Community License.
Having grouped (read pigeon-holed) the blogs I subscribe to into groups, the current unread counts are:
This week's gone so fast, a totally awesome conference, loads of really great people. Papers and papers to go back and read to really get into the meat of what was presented.
There's loads more to say, as it starts to unpack in my head, but for now you'll have to make do with a selection of photos from various sessions, meals, drinks and ceremonies. More photos to come as Nad, Chris, Paul, Tom, Liv and I go out to explore a Beijing a little more before heading home.
Linked Data on the Web 2008, a workshop attached to WWW2008, was today's main attraction for about 100 of us here in Beijing.
I landed in Beijing at 23:00 last night with Chris, Tom, Nad and Paul. We're here for WWW2008 - yep, work sent five of us to Beijing. How cool is that.
The videos from Code4Lib Con 2008 are now up - thanks to the enormous efforts of Noel Pedens (master videography, library geek, artist and brewer).
Here's me presenting work on finding relationships in MARC data.
Various news sites are reporting on an interesting Copyright claim going through the New York courts right now. The BBC Says:
Author JK Rowling is to testify in a New York court this week over plans to publish an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopaedia.