On May 29th 2010, has been published Json-Ld, an universal markup of rdfa microdata and microformats via lightweight Json.

Developers that embed structured data in their web pages can choose among a number of languages such as RDFa, Microformats and Microdata. Each of these structured data languages, while incompatible at the syntax level, can be easily mapped to Rdf. Json has proven to be a highly useful object serialization and messaging replacement for Soap.
In an attempt to harmonize the representation of Link Data in Json, this specification outlines a common Json representation format for Linked Data that can be used to represent objects specified via RDFa, Microformats and Microdata. Read more »

Do you want a channel to spread your ideas in Italy and in the whole world? Have not you a blog yet?! Don’t create a new one: make of Isotype your (and our) website! Without paying anything you will have a multilingual website managed by professionals. Do you have already a blog? Increase your visibility publishing on Isotype an article about information architecture, information design, free culture, free software, commons… Read more »

A community vote is now underway, hopefully one of the final steps in the process the migration of Wikipedia (actually Wikipedias, as each language is its own site, and also other Wikimedia Foundation sites) to using Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike as its primary content license.

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It’s the verdict of the most important trial about “piracy”. It’s not the final decision, only the first before the losing party will appeal. It will have no real effect on anything besides setting the tone for the debate, so we hope we win of course
But as in all good movies, the heroes lose in the beginning but have an epic victory in the end anyhow. That’s the only thing hollywood ever taught us.

press conference on friday at 13.00 swedish time (GMT+1 / CET).
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The new version is available!

If you need frequent and constant updates and upgrades for WordPress Login Widget, please sustain our work . We’ll release express updates compatible with latest versions of WordPress and qTranslate plugin. Feel free to ask for new features or to suggest a bug.

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Also this year, as usual, we bring you our small free digital gift. It’s the preview of a short animation movie about responsible tourism, hoping to let you know a new way for living your vacations, fair and respectful of people you’ll visit. Read more »

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (Abs) has is going to publish the majority of its web contents under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.

The ABS conducts the annual Australian census, and is the holder of all official Australian statistical data. It’s been providing all its resources for free for a number of years, but under a limited re-use licence. The decision to go one step further and allow complete reuse of its material – even for commercial purposes – heralds a great opportunity for the Australian community, researchers and business, and hopefully will lead to a great leap in the use of and innovation based on this rich resource. Read more »

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