Tag Archives: Furl

Creative Commons Licensing as an Affordance

Posted on November 5, 2004 by

Open Access News points out that the Open Archives Initiative is seeking public comment on their specification for conveying copyright metadata on Open Access content. Such a specification is critical to the aforementioned goal of assembling course packs out of … Continue reading →

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Open Access, Furl, and Course Packs

Posted on October 29, 2004 by

I just took a quick look at The Learner’s Library As far as I can tell, the service breaks down as follows: LL contains a collection of academic journal articles that have been pre-cleared for copyright. There’s a search interface … Continue reading →

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Furl Follow-up: Mike Giles Responds

Posted on August 16, 2004 by

As a follow-up to my earlier post, I’m happy to report that I’ve had a satisfying email exchange with Furl’s Mike Giles. On the PDF front, Furl is planning to index both .pdf and .doc files in the “near future.” … Continue reading →

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Furl, PDF's, and Creative Commons

Posted on August 15, 2004 by

I have started to use Furl to create an archive of articles (mostly PDFs) that I find on the web related to informational cascades for myself (and eventually for my blog readers as well). So far I’m finding two significant … Continue reading →

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