I _Really_ Don't Know

I went to the Code4Lib Conference again this year - report over on Panlibus.

I've been playing with some ideas over the past six months on how we can really move bibliographic data forwards into a structure that could have huge benefits.

The impetus to describe some of that for everyone finally came in the form of a conference, with a deadline for submission that is in just a few days time. The conference is WWW2008 and the workshop is entitles Linked Data on the Web. There are a whole load of reasons to go - I got to go to last years and learnt a huge amount as well as getting to speak about data licensing.

Open Content, The Library of Congress archive and Photography - I could spend hours here:

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/)

ps -ax | grep getFromUris | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill -STOP

ps -ax | grep getFromUris | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill -CONT

More coverage of the Open Data Commons, PDDL (pronounced pee-diddle)

[http://www.semanticweb.com/news/article.php/3720576](http://www.semanticweb.com/news/article.php/3720576)

at how many of these I haven't played with...

40 Downloadable Open Source Social Software Applications

Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote is a great piece of innovation using the motion tracking camera in the wiimote to provide cheap tracking for a multi-touch display.

Read/Write Web have been digging into us in a bit more detail.

The piece is a pretty good overview and it's great to see how much they've understood about us and the culture we're trying to build and maintain.

YouTube - Royksopp - Remind Me:

Fantastic music video with constantly changing information visualisations.

At work we've just announced some great news. The Open Data Commons license is out - in collaboration with Creative Commons and others.

The new home for the license is at http://www.opendatacommons.org/ and the new licenses are available there for comment.