Luís Nóbrega has proposed the development of a new Microformat for semantic description of touristic itineraries, collecting some real examples for a better implementation. Read more »

An article by Candide Kemmler explores the new possibilities of semantic navigation that will be fed by the IEML dictionary.

The software widget presented in this paper is a first attempt at providing end-users with a means to navigate an IEML space both for content annotation (USL notation) and for content navigation through their semantics. It was first presented at IEML’s international seminar in Ottawa on May 2d, 2009.

Six responses to the question: From your point of view of engineers, what is IEML

A new version of the basic text on Ieml by Andrew Roczniak, Christian Desjardins, Candide Kemmler, Michel Biezunski, Steve Newcomb and Samuel Szoniecky. Read more »

Project el-ajo.ru has organized a free competition for designers, photographers, artists, creatives and generally anyone who is interested, for the design of the last Creative Commons album of the Russian musical band Электрогуманные уничтожители (ElektroHumans destroyers). Read more »

It has been the first strike of bloggers ever. Wired.it has defined it a fundamental step in Internet history. Hundreds of bloggers – with them the Nobel prize Dario Fo – for the whole day of July 14th, 2009 have published only one post, explaining the reasons of this strike: We strongly supports Diritto alla Rete (Internet right) against the decree of the Italian justice minister Angelino Alfano that limits Italian Internet freedom. They have sent videos and pictures of themselves gagged. They have signed an online petition. Read more »

In Italy, commercial shops can diffuse some music without paying collecting societies. Labels and services like Beatpick.com, Jamendo Pro, Liberius and Filozero offer free music, some right reserved licenses and consultancies for this scope. You can pay from zero to less than half you would have paid passing through collecting societies. Read more »

We have written a new tutorial on how to improve an existing resource, like a free software, a shared document or other. We have published it in the Education section of Isotype. Read the tutorial »

We are translating in Italian the recent paper of French philosopher Pierre Lévy titled From Social Computing to Reflexing Collective Intelligence: the IEML Research Program. Read more »

Marco Masini, a famous San Remo Festival singer, has signed an anomalous contract with Universal, managing an album of new songs, containing San Remo’s Italy, a greatest hits for the twenty years of career that will be published in 2010, and other 24 songs.
Not an another album, but 24 songs, each one with its own price. From 2011 will not distribute more cds. No more physical supprts – Masini reports words by Universal and continues – I have signed a contract calculating the price for each song. Read more »

With the European Parliament set to vote on 23 March on extending the term of copyright for sound recordings, key European experts opposing the extension have released a new letter to MEPs warning of the dangers. Read more »