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Open-Source Annotation Toolkit for Inline, Online Web Annotation

November 11, 2010

I’ve been working on web-annotation — inline, online annotation of web texts — for several years. My original motivation was to support annotation of texts in…

  • Tags: Inline, javascript, medieval canon law, source, web annotation, web texts

Speaking at 2010 Online News Association Conference

October 28, 2010

This Friday and Saturday I’m in Washington DC at the 2010 Online News Association Conference where I’ll be speaking about Where Does My Money Go? in the Saturday session on Making Killer…

  • Tags: Data, few days, killer apps, money, news association, Saturday

Where Does My Money Go? Spending Explorer using Protovis and jQuery

October 27, 2010

Over the last couple of months I’ve been playing around with Protovis in my spare time to create an interactive pure javascript Government Spending Explorer for Where Does My Money Go?…

Written by: Rufus Pollock

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  • Tags: arbitrary depth, financial bubbles, javascript, javascript libraries

Speaking Today at media140 Dataconomy Event

October 21, 2010

This evening I’ll be at media140 dataconomy event in London to give a talk on open data. Update: slides from dataconomy talk are now…

  • Tags: Dataconomy, Event, London, slides, Update

Datapkg v0.7 Beta Released

October 14, 2010

I’ve just put out a beta of a major new version of datapkg (see changelog below): Release: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/datapkg Docs: http://packages.python.org/datapkg/ There’s a…

Written by: Rufus Pollock

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  • Tags: cross platform compatibility, csv file, index types, MAJOR, python, release

Papers on the Size and Value of EU Public Domain

October 11, 2010

I’ve just posted two new papers on the size of and ‘value’ the EU Public Domain. These papers are based on the research done as part of the Public Domain in Europe (EUPD) Research…

Written by: Rufus Pollock

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  • Tags: Domain, price, public domain material, summary slides, value, welfare gains

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