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Seems a shame. Surely some the material found through the TEL portal could be made available on a more open basis?
As someone that would like to build experimental virtual exhibitions of European cultural heritage materials in Second Life, I'm scuppered at the first hurdle - I can't easily work out what is available for re-use. Worse in fact - it looks like nothing is available for re-use!
As I've noted before, the US seems way ahead of us in terms of making digitised cultural heritage material openly available.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/14/2007 10:36:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
