For the last two weeks I’ve been working hard with some people at the Open Knowledge Foundation to make a new visual tool to make it easier to understand European energy. It was launched today to coincide with a big meeting on energy at the European Council in Brussels. You can find it here: http://energy.publicdata.eu/ [...]
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Visualising Europe’s Energy
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The Public Domain Review is launched!
Back in October, I posted a note about the Public Domain Review, an idea for a web-based review site for public domain works. Now the Public Domain Review has just gone live, to coincide with Public Domain Day 2011: http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org The first post is on the works of Nathanael West, whose works enter the public [...]
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Historical Hooks: ‘X Hundred Years Ago Today, …’
Our daily lives are permeated by the past. Newspapers are full of commemorations of persons and occurrences we deem to be culturally and historically significant. Calendars are stuffed with births, deaths, battles, inventions, catastophes, riots, murders and miracles. “X hundred years ago today”, we are told, ships were sunk, saints were born, cures were found, [...]
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Introducing: The Public Domain Review
One of the great things about the public domain is that very nearly everything eventually falls into it. It is only a matter of time before every work — every opera, fresco, novella, tapestry, napkin scribble and lecture note — gracefully ascends into the big commons in the sky. While the amount of time it [...]
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Bibliographica – for the collaborative development of bibliographies
Lists, lists and more lists As someone engaged in research in the humanities I find that I am often making lists of books about particular authors, periods, and themes. A single publication will often appear in more than one list. For example, I may wish to include Frederick Beiser’s The Romantic Imperative in a list [...]
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Where Does My Money Go? project proposal
Below is the original draft proposal for the Where does my money go? project, from 2nd April 2007: ‘Where does my money go?’: Promoting transparency and citizen engagement through interactive visualizations of government economic data 2nd April 2007 The British public have exceptional access to official documents and datasets detailing the operations of the official [...]
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