Monthly Archives: May 2010

Scraped from British Library site without permission into Arcturus I have found the point in time when the British Library [changed or introduced] its DRM. I quote in full (without permission, claiming fair use) and then comment. http://www.bl.uk/news/2009/pressrelease20091126.html The British Library Improves … Continue reading →

Dictated to Arcturus I have made a Freedom Of Information (FOI) request to the University Library (UL) in Cambridge asking them for the policies, practices and technology that apply to electronic materials supplied by the British Library (BL). You may … Continue reading →

Typed and scraped to Arcturus It is simple to make FOI requests with the MySociety tool/site WhatDoTheyKnow? I have so far made 4 request and comment briefly on each. I will comment on the first later Your 4 Freedom of … Continue reading →

Dictated and scraped in to Arcturus This post will illustrate how the wonderful website whatdotheyknow.com can be used to liberate information from public bodies by invoking the freedom of information act (FOI). If an individual tries to find information from … Continue reading →

Dictated to Arcturus This is a first step in a campaign to find out the British library is current policy to digital rights management in inter library loans and other facilities and then turn lobby opinion including government to change … Continue reading →

Typed and scraped into Arcturus I am delighted to be able to help BMC with their Open Data award, co-sponsored by Microsoft (see below which I quote in full). Open data is on everyone’s lips today but go back only … Continue reading →

  dictated to Arcturus Our group has been making tremendous progress over the last few months and I will be posting many posts which detail what we have done and where the resources are. As almost everything that we do … Continue reading →

  Typed and pasted to Arcturus [As I said the election was a holiday from the daily basis of trying to create a fair society at grass roots. We are now back to the process of trying to pull our … Continue reading →

  Dictated to Arcturus This is probably the last post and I shall make about the UK general election and probably the last with a picture of a bear. As I predicted I voted for the winner of the election … Continue reading →

  Typed into Arcturus In a previous post I mentioned that Imperial College had 22 Chemistry theses Openly visible. I thought I’d look to see what other UK universities had. Here’s a simple poll of 19 Russell Group universities (I … Continue reading →