Access to Knowledge (a2k) Treaty
WIPO is considering a possible treaty on Access to Knowledge as part of the development agenda (Summary) at a conference being held February 3-4 in Geneva. Some suggestions are posted on an A2k-specific mailing list. More...

Open Source Enterprise Weblogging
Derek Morrison explores the mysteries of WordPress MU installation, and that he is up to part three suggests that there are mysteries aplenty. WordPress is an open source blogging application; the 'MU' stands for 'Multi User' and allows an enterprise - such as a university - to allow multiple users to create blogs. More...

Open Source Enterprise Weblogging
Derek Morrison explores the mysteries of WordPress MU installation, and that he is up to part three suggests that there are mysteries aplenty. WordPress is an open source blogging application; the 'MU' stands for 'Multi User' and allows an enterprise - such as a university - to allow multiple users to create blogs. More...

In Praise of Simpler Standards?
Such a pleasure that Scott Wilson has joined the blogosphere, and we're still in the heady first few days of his blog where every topic is new (it gets harder in the second year, when you realize you made the same point before, somewhere). In this item, Wilson outlines other values he thinks are important in specifications work are: utility, precision, free, open and clarity. More...

Forever Access vs. Archiving Courses: Practical Limitations of LMS Storage
What do you do with an online course after the course has finished? Archive it, obviously, but for how long? And with what sort of access? Online course providers are now facing these sorts of issues and storage space fills up, content licenses expire and the usefulness of the course itself diminishes. More...

Planet Digital Repository
Scott Leslie writes of the PLANET Digital Repository: On the surface just another repository project, but of interest to me because it is a current project from outside of Canada that seems to have picked up the Edusource Communications Layer (ECL) developed by Marek Hatala and others as part of the Edusource project. More...