I was recently asked to put together a short document outlining my main policy recommendations in the area of “innovation, creativity and IP”. Below is what I prepared.
General IP Policy Recommendation: IP policy, and more generally innovation policy, should aim at the improvement of the overall welfare of UK society and citizens and not [...]My experiences (with the assistance of Will Waites) of installing 4store On Ubuntu Jaunty.
No packaged versions of code (there is one in fact from Yves Raimond from mid 2009 but now out of date …), so need to get from github.
Recommend using will waites fork which adds useful features like:
multiple [...]Deliverance is a great library that lets you easily re-theme external websites on the fly. Designed as WSGI middleware, it can be easily combined with some proxying to integrate a bunch of websites together
You can use deliverance plus proxying out-of-the-box using the deliverance-proxy command. However, I was interested in using Deliverance as middleware [...]
I was looking again recently at “Understanding the Knowledge Commons” which I had perused previously.
While reading the introductory chapter by Hess and Ostrom I came across:
People started to notice behaviors and conditions on the web-congestion, free riding, conflict, overuse, and “pollution” — that had long been identified with other types of commons. [...]
Instructions on using sqlalchemy migrate with Pylons, especially to convert an existing pylons project to use sqlalchemy migrate
This is based off several excellent sources including this guide and these threads.
One important point to note is that you are likely to end up with two versions of your model [...]
In doing research for the EU Public Domain project (as here and here) we are often handling large datasets, for example one national library’s list of pre-1960 books stretched to over 4 million items. In such a situation, an algorithm’s speed (and space) can really matter. To illustrate, consider our ‘loading’ algorithm [...]
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. [...]Background
I’m working on a EU funded project to look at the size and value of the Public Domain. This involves getting large datasets about cultural material and trying to answer questions like: How many of these items are in the public domain? What’s the difference in price and availability of public domain versus non [...]
Over the Christmas break I had a chance to make some substantial improvements/additions to our Open Economics including:
Improved javascript graphing. Extend Millenium Development Goals package and added web interface. First efforts at ‘Where Does My Money Go’ Aim: Dig up govt finance info and visualize the results (online) http://okfn.org/wiki/projects/Where_Does_My_Money_GoMore details on [...]
Helping myself remember how to do common things using imagemagick’s (excellent but many-optioned) convert utility.
convert -scale 10% {in} {out} # convert to black and white convert -type Grayscale {in} {out} convert -monochrome {in} {out} # invert colours convert -negate in out convert -rotate {in} {out} # make the given colour (e.g. here white) transparent [...]-
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