Berkman Center for Internet & Society

DPLA Appfest Hackathon

in Chattanooga, TN

DPLA Appfest is an informal, open call for both ideas and functional examples of creative and engaging ways to use the content and metadata in the DPLA back-end platform. The first Appfest will take place on November 8-9, 2012, at the Chattanooga Public Library on The 4th Floor.

DPLA Midwest Conference

in Chicago, IL

DPLA Midwest—taking place on October 11-12, 2012 in Chicago—is the third major public event bringing together librarians, technologists, creators, students, government leaders, and others interested in building a Digital Public Library of America. This event will be webcast live.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Collaborative! Open! Reusable! Executable! ...Science!

Unlocking the sources of scientific research by authoring papers on the web. Alberto Pepe, Berkman Center Fellow

The system you use to write your research papers may be the first barrier to Open Science! Let's and unlock the sources of scientific research - figures, data, and tables - by bringing the authorship of articles truly to the web.

Meeting of the Open Internet Advisory Committee

By this Public Notice, the Federal Communications Commission announces the date, time, and agenda of the next meeting of the Open Internet Advisory Committee. This event will be webcast live at 10AM ET.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Fair Use for Education: Taking Best Practices to the Next Level

Niva Elkin-Koren, University of Haifa

In this talk Niva Elkin-Koren will share some insights based on the building of a coalition of higher education institutions in Israel and drafting a code of fair use best practices. Brainstorming on the legal status of such codes may help us take fair use best practices to the next level. This event will be webcast live at 12:30PM ET.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources

Brett Frischmann, Cardozo Law School

Frischmann will discuss his new book about the social value of infrastructure and the relationships between open infrastructures and user-generated public and social goods.