Thursday, September 28, 2017

Copyright Board, Copyright Collectives, and the myth that "Fair use decimated educational publishing in Canada”

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(This is a letter in an ongoing dialog with a few members of federal parliament. This email was added to the list of submissions for the Co...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Taxpayers should pay authors for educational uses of works, not intermediaries

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Replying to a Letter to the Editor in The Varsity . It is taxpayers and authors that are paying the costs of this ongoing dispute, ...
Friday, June 9, 2017

IIIF.io : the hardest part will be saying "no".

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Back in April I noted Canadiana is working on adopting APIs from IIIF , the International Image Interoperability Framework. We did a small ...

Moving more of Canadiana's software projects to GitHub

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As some of the links in recent articles suggest, we have started moving more of our software from an internal source control and issue trac...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Canadiana JHOVE report

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This article is based on a document written to be used at Code4Lib North on May 11’th , and discusses what we’ve learned so far with our us...
Sunday, May 7, 2017

Some of the earliest community groups on FLORA.org

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Some of the earliest groups on Flora.org Ask the Doctors, which was a real cool site managed by Rosaleen Dickson who I met from the Fr...
Saturday, May 6, 2017

Winding down FLORA.org after more than 22 years.

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FLORA Community Web was started in December 1994 (See Ottawa alternative community minded networking ) and the first domain name it used was...