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Kaltura | Open Source Video Platform - 0 views

  • free downloadable video packages, online video player & video editor for wikis, blogs and leading web platforms
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    This is not just another video embed tool - it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more
anonymous

[arguments] Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software - 0 views

  • Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software
  • Open source [1] developers and users are unusually passionate about their work, unusual in ways that make things work well. So let me begin passionately as we talk about open source as the solution for support of institutional repositories.
  • Now that we have that behind us, let's discuss some of the myths and some of the reasons for dedicating your institutional repository to the use of open source software, open standards and open formats which, I contend, are inseparable.
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  • Institutional repositories have taken a few knocks in the six years since Cliff Lynch's “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age” appeared in ARL 226 [4]. But I'm concerned more here about the upcoming crashes than the bumps we hit on the road to more settled standardizations. 
  • Proprietary software vendors often try to finesse the open source access promise by offering small customizable ports of entry into their code, usually as application program interfaces or APIs.
  • For a long time, it has been argued that the market, as represented by proprietary software solutions, is more responsive to the needs of users, to new requirements and to innovations. Open source is now seen as a diverse infrastructure of solutions each in competition while also free to borrow from each other.
  • The ends and the means of institutional repositories are one and the same. The infrastructure that supports open access needs to be open itself.
  • A quick glance at the most recent statistics produced by the OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories suggests that the vast majority of existing institutional repositories are currently built upon open source software.
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    Proprietary software vendors often try to finesse the open source access promise by offering small customizable ports of entry into their code, usually as application program interfaces or APIs. Like software escrow promises, this is a short-term solution to our long-term problems in curation of our valuable materials within our repositories.
anonymous

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education - 0 views

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    In this day and age, though, programming, marketing, design, and other self-taught skills are pretty valuable, however you came by them.
anonymous

SIMILE Widgets: Open Source visualization and data visualisations - 0 views

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    This is an open-source "spin-off" from the Simile project at MIT. Here we offer free, open-source web widgets, mostly for data visualizations. They are maintained and improved over time by a community of open-source developers.
anonymous

Guardian Open Platform: Tools to keep content king | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

  • "The model is free. You can use our ­content elsewhere in the web. What do we get out of it? We want you to help us build an ad network," said Matt McAlister, head of the Guardian Developer Network.
  • To find related Guardian articles, the API can draw on the tagging system from its own content management system, internal search engine for guardian.co.uk provided by Endeca and a related-content service powered by Zemanta. That content is then packaged in standardised formats including XML, JSON and Atom which can easily be added to external sites.
  • "The whole idea is to spread out journalism," ­McAlister said, and APIs can lead to explosive growth.
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  • Twitter's API drives 20 times more ­traffic to the service than its own website does, and Twitter's web market share passed that of social news site Digg in January. Third parties using Twitter's API have developed a huge range of services and applications that have helped drive Twitter's growth spurt.
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    The Guardian this week launched its Open Platform, paving the way for developers to easily reuse its articles and data
anonymous

Bread and Circuits » "students want to produce meaningful output" - 0 views

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    I've always thought it was miserable that we take the supposed best and brightest in society, charge them up to $60,000 a year in fees, then put them to work for four years on producing busywork that no one - not them, not their profs, not other scholars - actually wants to read.
anonymous

commonspace: Open everything unfolds - 0 views

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    "conversations about the art, science and spirit of 'open'. It gathers people using openness to create and improve software, education, media, philanthropy, neighbourhoods, workplaces and the society we live in: everything. It's about thinking, doing and
anonymous

Piwik | Web analytics | Open source - 0 views

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    piwik is an open source (GPL license) web analytics software. It gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords they used, the language they speak… and so much more.
anonymous

ccLearn | Creative Commons for education - 0 views

  • ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons dedicated to realizing the full potential of the internet to support open learning and open educational resources.
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    ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons dedicated to realizing the full potential of the internet to support open learning and open educational resources.
anonymous

Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning - 0 views

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    Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.
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