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Southampton department releases public data in open linked data format

14 July 2010
The School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton has become the UK's first university department to release all its public data in open linked data format for public reuse

Open-access physics consortium gets award

14 July 2010
CERN/SCOAP3 is awarded the SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications

NISO launches new standards projects

24 June 2010
The National Information Standards Organization has launched six new standard or recommended practice development projects in the past six months

First organisations endorse KBART recommendations

28 May 2010
The American Institute of Physics, Ex Libris, Serials Solutions and OCLC are the first organisations have endorsed the Phase I recommendations of the KBART Working Group

Digital time capsule hidden in Swiss Alps

24 May 2010
The Planets project has deposited a time capsule containing a record of the 'Digital Genome' inside Swiss Fort Knox - a high security digital storage facility hidden deep in the Swiss Alps