Just came across this, now year-old, story of Qualcomm’s submarining efforts (and subsequent cover-up) in relation to the JVT (joint video team) standardization effort for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec.
Qualcomm participated in the JVT (joint video team) standardization effort for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (a video codec) which was concluded in 2003. However, they (intentionally) did not declare [...]
There’s an interesting 6 month fellowship at OPSI for work on economics of public sector information being funded by ESRC and National Archives. Deadline for applications is 6th August:
Valuing information: an economic analysis of public sector information and its re-use
Length of Fellowship: Six months
Proposed start date: Autumn 2009
Applications to be submitted [...]
Current methods of disseminating scholarly information focus on the use of journals who retain exclusive rights in the material they publish. Recently there has been increasing dissatisfaction with this model, with suggestions for alternative approaches such as “Open Access”.
Together with a colleague (Omar Al-Ubaydli) I’ve been working to explore the reasons for the development [...]
I’ve had occasion recently to frequently work with “dates” that come in a lot of shapes and sizes including:
Dates in distant past and future including BC/BCE dates Dates in a wild variety of formats: Jan 1890, January 1890, 1st Dec 1890, Spring 1890 etc Dates of varying precision: e.g. 1890, 1890-01 (i.e. [...]This post continues the work begun in this earlier post on “Estimating Information Production and the Size of the Public Domain”. Update: 2009-07-17 there is now a follow-up post.
Having already obtained estimates of the number of items (publications) produced each year based on library catalogue data our next step is to convert [...]
Here we’re going to look at using library catalogue data as a source for estimating information production (over time) and the size of the public domain.
Library CataloguesCultural institutions, primarily libraries, have long compiled records of the material they hold in the form of catalogues. Furthermore, most countries have had one or more libraries [...]
The BBC ran a story yesterday headlined “Seven million ‘use illegal files’”. Its bolded first paragraph stated:
Around seven million people in the UK are involved in illegal downloads, costing the economy tens of billions of pounds, government advisers say. [emphasis added]
7 million people involved in unauthorised file-sharing is possible, but costs of [...]
In my original post on Visualizing Technology Flows from Patent Data I just presented static information — flows for a single year. As I said there:
The next step is to watch how these flows, and the relationships implied by them, have evolved over time. We can do this by plotting the same graph [...]
Patricia Akester, a colleague of mine in the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law has just published the results of her recent research in the form of a 208 page report entitled Technological accommodation of conflicts between freedom of expression and DRM: the first empirical assessment.
There has been a lot of [...]
The Government announced last summer a further review of how trading funds supply PSI. The results of this review had been expected with the budget.
However, instead of the results of a review, trading funds were included in the report of the Operational Efficiency Programme in the section on “Asset management and sales” [...]
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