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The Arts Council England and OpenBusiness.cc announce the release of a report, which represents the results of a six-month study into artists’ attitudes towards copyright, creativity and alternative licensing practises, in particular Creative Commons (CC). Although the number of UK artists using open licensing has been growing for the last decade there had been no investigation into how or why such licences were being used.

Papers and presentations   Folksonomies and tagging: New developments in social bookmarking 430 Kb This paper, presented at the Ark Group Conference, describes a proof of concept to develop community contributions to managing information and resources, using Taxonomy-Directed Folksonomy. Learning architecture: issues in indexing Australian education in a Web 2.0 world 86 Kb This paper, presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers Conference, provides an overview of current thinking about learning architectures, and raises questions about how educational institutions are managing learning resources.