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	LIFE Open Content - Home
		Open content, coined by analogy to open source, describes any kind of creative work (for example, articles, pictures, audio, video, etc.) that is published under a non-restrictive copyright license and format that explicitly allows the copying of the information.
		It is an initiative by practitioners interested in open content and education which explores the potential, impact and pitfalls of applying the open content paradigm to education in school, vocational training and university settings.
		This website is meant to provide a general introduction to the open content paradigm, and to present some of the challenges it encounters in real-life settings, all by focusing on education.
	www.life-open-content.org (442 words)

	Open content - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Open content, coined by analogy with "open source" (though technically it is actually share-alike), describes any kind of creative work including articles, pictures, audio, and video that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying of the information.
		It is possible that the first documented case of Open Content was with the Royal Society, where they aspired toward information sharing across the globe as a public enterprise.
		The words "open content" were first put together in this context by David Wiley, then a graduate student at Brigham Young University, who founded the OpenContent project and put together the first content-specific (non-software) license in 1998 with input from Eric Raymond, Tim O'Reilly, and others.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_content (510 words)

	Open content - Simple English Wikipedia
		If you create something (like a picture or book), you can choose to make that work "open", which means that other people are allowed to copy it and change it if they want.
		If something is open content, it might be free, but it does not have to be.
		However, you do insist that whenever else they sell or use your work, they also declare it to be open.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_content (188 words)

	Why use open textbooks - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		Open textbooks can be a medium for getting your class notes out to your students.
		A mature open textbook is also promising for course work because it's much cheaper for students to have and read.
		In the open world, the distinction from field tester to reader to author is blurred.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Why_use_open_textbooks (311 words)

	Wikipedia:Copyrights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As "fair use" is specific to the use that you contemplate it is best if your describe the fair use rationale for such specific use either in hidden text in the article or on the image description page.
		If some of the content of a page really is an infringement, then the infringing content should be removed, and a note to that effect should be made on the talk page, along with the original source.
		You can also contact our Designated agent to have it permanently removed, but it may take up to a week for the page to be deleted that way (you may also blank the page but the text will still be in the page history).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights (2331 words)

	Open Content Definition \| Global Scan on Open (Collaborative) Content Projects
		The term was coined by David Wiley in 1998 to establish a link between the practice of Open Source, established in the field of software, and the production of other types of digital content (text, sound, still and moving images, and interactive works).
		Open Content is all cultural material (text, sound, images) that the general public can freely use, distribute and modify These actions can be either sanctioned by an OC license, or by commonly accepted practice.
		In the context of this project, we are primarily interested in projects where a (potentially) large resource is produced collaboratively, either by a group of volunteers or by members of an institution.
	oc.openflows.org /oc_definition (352 words)

	Open-source content management systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Open platforms also increase the amount of supporting software and experience that is available, and reduces the cost of employing developers.
		For a content management system, this is a key weakness, as the software will often be used by staff throughout an organisation.
		It is clear that open-source content management is more than just a fad, and that deployment of these system is steadily growing, particularly in the government sector.
	steptwo.com.au /papers/kmc_opensource (2110 words)

	elearnspace. everything elearning.
		This is the second article (Part 1: Free and Open Source Movements explores the history and philosophy of the openness and sharing of resources in software development) on the role of open source in education.
		Publishers of educational content are creating an environment similar to the software industry in the late '70's, early '80's (see The Transition: Open to Commercial) - closing doors, content as individual property, proprietary offerings, and a for-profit focus.
		Preservation of openness and sharing (at an educational level) is critical for the creation of a culture that values innovation, progress, experimentation, and development.
	www.elearnspace.org /Articles/open_source_part_2.htm (2593 words)

	NewsForge \| Open source content management partnerships are a promising sign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Open source companies and groups appear to be realizing this, as evidenced by Computer Associates' (CA) new partnerships with Zope and Plone.
		Everitt and Burton said the content management market is "more dysfunctional than other markets," explaining that while people do not write their own Web servers, the market leader in CMS is the do-it-yourself system.
		There are advantages to open source, however, and Plone's representatives argued that open source solutions lower the risk of evaluation -- "you can download it and try it, you can subscribe to mailing lists and see the good and bad in all its naked glory" -- and also ease accessibility.
	software.newsforge.com /software/04/06/08/1340235.shtml (2097 words)

	Nupedia: The Open Content Encyclopedia - Andamooka Reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Content, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works.
		But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Content, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
		Therefore, by distributing or translating the Content, or by deriving works herefrom, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or translating the Content.
	www.andamooka.org /reader.pl?section=nupedia (708 words)

	Open Content Licenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Source code is ``creative content'' that is subject to copyright, and so may have an open copyright license applied to it.
		The Open Publication License [5] was derived from the Open Content License after a sufficient number of authors began publishing works under this license, and the more traditional book publishers (such as O'Reilly!) found problems with this license.
		This has just changed to an Open Content project, which is just as much fun, and avoids the hassles of dealing with regular publication systems which tend to make it hard for authors.
	jan.netcomp.monash.edu.au /opendoc/paper.html (2951 words)

	Open content and value creation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I define open content as content possible for others to improve and redistribute and/or content that is produced without any consideration of immediate financial reward — often collectively within a virtual community.
		The open content license simply codifies the definition, that a specific form or quantity of content is available for use, distribution and improvement, for free.
		Participating in a open source project could, for example, help you with a future career (economic motivation on the micro level) or you could be very convinced that the software should be free for everyone to use (socio-political motivation on the macro level).
	www.firstmonday.org /issues/issue8_8/cedergren/index.html (5705 words)

	LIFE Open Content - Licenses
		As our intention is to help practitioners to get open content on the ground and running, our primary interest lies in identifying those licenses used in the real world which have a proven track-record, not in crafting yet another special license and thereby adding to the confusion.
		Firstly, if the license does not match the requirements of prospective content authors, they may simply choose not to contribute their valuable existing or future content - which they otherwise may have done, given the right license.
		Also, The Open Publication License has different options that may be invoked by a copyright holder, some of them severely restricting distribution.
	www.life-open-content.org /Licenses/licenses.html (556 words)

	Open Source Content Management System List (perl, php, python, m4, java, etc) Blog API
		The main benefits it gives to the writer are tables of contents, standardised headers and footers, user-defined tags with macro expansion and variable interpolation, user-defined indices, keyword/subject index, and inclusion of other documents.
		Content administrators can edit their content through a choice of text, html, wiki or a WYSIWYG editor.
		All the content in the cms system is stored in a database and integrated with a template when sent to the client - this enables you to worry about the content only, and ignore the graphic design.
	www.la-grange.net /cms (3562 words)

	Open Clip Art Library :: openclipart.org :: Drawing Together.
		For the month of September, the Open Clip Art Library sought imagery related to pets including images of different breeds appropriate for use by animal shelters.
		The Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used.
		August 8th, 2005 — A new release of the Open Clip Art Library is available for download, consisting of 4442 images submitted by over 443 artists from around the world.
	openclipart.org (1209 words)

	OpenSourceCMS - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This allows you to to add and delete content, change the way things look, basically be the admin of any system here without fear of breaking anything.
		Cignex, the deployment leader in open source consulting and software services, will host the open source CMS industry’s largest gathering of open source experts at the Goldegg Packaging Sprint, at its Santa Clara headquarters, from November 7-11, 2005.
		Founded and funded by Cignex, the Goldegg initiative brings together one of the largest groups of open source experts and innovators in the content management (CM) industry to make the open source Plone CMS a viable alternative for enterprise CM.
	opensourcecms.com (494 words)

	Why Open Content Matters \| Linux Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		GNU General Public License (GPL)--is beginning to stir for precisely the same reasons that launched the Free Software movement in the 1980s: the realization that a for-profit industry was about to lock up indispensable public knowledge and, in so doing, pose a grave threat to the advancement of knowledge and human welfare.
		open letter demanding that scientific journals in the fields of medicine and the life sciences release their copyrighted articles after six months to an on-line public library,
		Many scientific journals make their articles accessible to the public after six months, and evidence suggests they do not lose money by doing so; subscribers are willing to pay for the latest information, even if older articles are available for free.
	www.linuxjournal.com /article/4709 (3987 words)

	Irdial-Discs: Open Content
		Irdial-Discs is putting some of its assets into the public domain, under the Open Content licence.
		When the Open Content logo appears in the corner of a picture, that picture is marked as Open Content.
		When the Open Content logo appears in a page, the content immediately preceeding the symbol is Open Content, just like the ©.
	www.irdial.com /oc.htm (194 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: Open Source: Open Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		OpenText Project - Mission is to lead the open source content movement in higher education, modeling textbook content after the open source software movement.
		Wikimedia Foundation - International non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth and development of free content, multilingual, wiki-based projects, and to providing the full content of those projects to the public free of charge.
		First Monday - Open Content and Value Creation - Article by Magnus Cedergren discusses models involving the driving forces in a theoretical open content value chain.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content (335 words)

	Open Content Alliance (OCA) - FAQ
		The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content.
		Metadata for all content in the OCA will be freely exposed to the public through formats such as the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and RSS.
		All content providers who contribute to the OCA must agree with the founding principles of the OCA, contained in the OCA Call for Participation, which describes how their materials and associated metadata will be accessed and used.
	www.opencontentalliance.org /faq.html (644 words)

	Piet Zwart Institute - A Guide To Open Content Licences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This booklet is an overview of the ways in which this has been done and a guide to the growing area of Open Content Licenses through which people design and safeguard access to their work.
		Chapter 3: General Characteristics of Open Content Licenses
		Open content licenses do not affect fair use rights
	pzwart.wdka.hro.nl /mdr/research/lliang/open_content_guide (194 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: Open Source: Open Content: Licenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Creative Commons License Generator - Service allowing quick and easy selection of one of a range of Open Content licenses to meet a content creators' requirements (concerning attribution, whether commercial use is allowed, and whether modification is allowed).
		The purpose of this License is to make a rulebook, game manual, sourcebook, supplement, or other written role-playing game document "free" in the sense that everyone is permitted to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially.
		Open Directory Project License - The license agreement for replicating ODP data.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content/Licenses (254 words)

	Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System — plone.org
		It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.
		The nonprofit Plone Foundation was formed in 2004 to promote the use of Plone around the world and protect the Plone IP and trademarks.
		The Plone™ Open Source Content Management System is Copyright © 2000-2005 by the Plone Foundation et al.
	plone.org (613 words)

	Open Content Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), such as Akamai, have shown that significant improvements can be made in throughput, latency, and scalability when content is distributed throughout the network and delivered from the edge.
		The goal of the Content-Addressable Web is to enable these advanced content location and distribution services with standard web servers, caches, and browsers.
		Security - Browsers will be able to safely download content from untrusted mirrors without risk of corruption or viruses.
	open-content.net /caw (230 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: Software: Internet: Site Management: Content Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Metacanvas web content management system - MetaCanvas is a visual web content management system that allows anyone to manage the content and growth of their website without needing technical knowledge.
		Open Text Corporation - Integrated product suite combines enterprise content management, visual workflow and powerful searching in a web-based environment for project collaboration, accessed through standard web browsers.
		Quinata content management for small businesses - Quinata's Content Manager allows a small business web site to be kept up to date at low cost, from anywhere, just by filling in simple forms.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Software/Internet/Site_Management/Content_Management (8106 words)

	opencms.org: OpenCms - The Open Source Content Management System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		OpenCms is an enterprise - ready content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components.
		OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL licence.
		Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world.
	www.opencms.org (1091 words)

	Sofia Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		FOOTHILL GLOBAL ACCESS, Los Altos Hills, CA--Content for eight courses is now available online for free through the Sofia open content initiative, thanks to the joint contributions of faculty, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Foothill-De Anza Community College District, and can now be accessed at the Course Gallery.
		The Sofia project is an open content initiative launched by the Foothill - De Anza Community College District with funding support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
		The pilot effort began with a call for contributions that was extended to faculty from Foothill-De Anza, the ETUDES Alliance, and the California Virtual Campus.
	sofia.fhda.edu (236 words)

	Open Web Content License
		If you have good content to offer, you want to encourage people to link to it, but even more you want to encourage them to accompany those links with samples of your content.
		See also the overview of the hundreds of pages of original content offered here, and the offer for a printed version of the site.
		Content may be copied under Open Web Content License.
	www.robotwisdom.com /web/license.html (781 words)

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