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• DataPortability.org

  http://www.dataportability.org/
  Aims to consult, design, educate and advocate interoperable data portability to users, developers and vendors. Provides information about the project for users, developers, and executives, news, frequently asked questions, and how to get involved.

• Drafting the Gift Domain

  http://www.greglondon.com/
  An introduction to IP law as it relates to Open Content (PDF).

• First Monday - Open Content and Value Creation

  http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_8/cedergren/index.html
  Article by Magnus Cedergren discusses models involving the driving forces in a theoretical open content value chain.

• Free Curriculum Project

  http://www.nongnu.org/fcp/
  An effort to create a complete K-12 curriculum and set of course materials that are "Free" in the GNU sense.

• Freebase

  http://www.freebase.com/
  A collaborative knowledge base built on structured data harvested from many sources, including individual wiki contributions. An API and a database dump are provided for programmers.

• Information Research Weblog

  http://www.free-conversant.com/irweblog/
  A forum to exchange information on publications and websites of potential interest to the readers of the journal, Information Research, an open access, refereed, electronic journal covering the information field generally.

• O'Reilly Open Books Project

  http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
  Read entire books online which were published under various forms of "open" copyright.

• Open Data Commons

  http://www.opendatacommons.org/
  Open Knowledge Foundation project to provides a set of legal tools to help people provide and use open data. Site includes, project information, licences, FAQs, and advocacy material.

• OpenContent

  http://www.opencontent.org/
  Reason for being: "facilitate the prolific creation of freely available, high-quality, well-maintained Content." Content = everything but software.

• OSCOMAK: Open Source Community On Manufacturing Knowledge

  http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/index.htm
  Goal: create a distributed global repository of production knowledge of past, present and future processes, materials, products.

• Rice University's Connexions

  http://creativecommons.org/education/connexions
  Article on the first steps of an experimental, open-source/open content project that will "give a learner... free access to educational materials that can be readily manipulated to suit her individual learning style".

• Wikimedia Foundation

  http://wikimediafoundation.org/
  International non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth and development of free content, multilingual, wiki-based projects, and to providing the full content of those projects to the public free of charge.

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