The open content movement turns ten years old in 2008. Since 1998 we've seen the emergence of incredible collections of open content like Wikipedia, open course materials like MIT OCW, open e-learning like Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative, open record labels like Magnatune, open access journals like the Public Library of Science, and the list goes on. Since 2002 we have referred to open content designed to support learning as "open educational resources."
The Mine! project is about equipping people with tools and functionality to enable them:
* take charge of their data (content, relationships, transactions, knowledge)
* arrange (analyse, manipulate, combine, mash-up) it according to their needs and preferences and
* share it on their own terms
* whilst connected and networked on the web.