I’ve just found out about the leftist Radical Open Access Conference in Coventry, UK, happening now…

“Two days of critical discussion and debate in support of an ‘alternative’ vision for open access and scholarly communication. The aim of the conference is to explore some of the intellectually and politically exciting ways of understanding open access that are currently available internationally. A particular emphasis is placed on those that have emerged in recent years in the arts, humanities and social sciences. … the conference will endeavour to strengthen alliances between the open access movement and other struggles …”

A positive review of JURN in The Manitoban, student newspaper of the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Yahoo is shutting down its Pipes and Mapping services.

Wolfram has an Image Identification Project with a simple “search and ID” tool.

Omeka 2.3 has been released. And if you missed 2.2 in late 2014, it was labelled as a “major upgrade”.

Omeka is a complete WordPress-like digital collections management system, for academics. I note that their hosted Omeka service at Omeka.net now offers the option of a free single site with 500Mb and five themes.

Bald’s Leechbook, an ancient leather-bound Old English manuscript from the 10th century, which is kept in the British Library in London, has yielded a potent new weapon against the MRSA ‘superbug’.