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Art, Politics and Open Source
Submitted by ydubel on Sun, 2008-10-05 17:26. :: art | black | box | culturalfusion | culturalfusion art as philosophy | democracy | hacking | open development | open source | politics | voting | Yvette Dubel
I have long been an advocate for end user led innovation, especially in IT. Currently private vendors and a select group of insiders are the only ones privy to the inner workings of voter tabulation software, both its processes and disconcerting loopholes.
Open Source Digital Archival and Preservation System UNESCO
Submitted by praveen kumar v... on Tue, 2007-09-11 10:33. :: Archiving | Digital Archiving | Information Management | knowledge Management | Library | News and Events | open source | preservation | UNESCO
UNESCO publishes a whitepaper on Open Source Digital Archival and Preservation System
Towards an Open Source Repository and Preservation System: Recommendations on the Implementation of an Open Source Digital Archival and Preservation System and on Related Software Development', Kevin Bradley,Junran Lei, and Chris Blackall. Paris: UNESCO, 2007.
This Document defines the requirements for a digital archival and preservation system using standard
hardware and describes a set of open source software which can be used to implement it.