If you asked me to name the topic I’d class as my core academic specialisation, you’d probably guess artificial intelligence, and you’d be wrong, or at least premature, that one came later. The real answer is openness: open access, open source, open content, the Commons, non-proprietary licensing. This was the Read more
The International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) has published a set of open access licences (thanks to David Prosser for directing me to the licences). As a person who once drafted an open access licence for fun, I am not given to criticise other people from trying Read more
A special issue of SCRIPTed, a Journal of Law and Technology, is now live for your enjoyment. This issue has some papers from the last BILETa conference in Liverpool, and it has the added bonus that this will be the last issue in which Yours Truly will act as Technical Read more
Download the report here. For those interested in the subject of data mining, here is an article written by Diane Cabell and Yours Truly dealing with the issue of data mining in UK higher education. Here is the introduction to see if you are interested in reading it further. Feel Read more