Simson Garfinkel, Peer-to-Peer Comes Clean, Technology Review, October 6, 2004. Excerpt: "They're not just for file-sharing anymore: P2P networks are transmitting phone calls, blocking spam, backing up hard drives, and spreading scholarship....LionShare [is] a project started by Penn State University with a grant from the Mellon Foundation to create a series of networks for sharing scholarly information among academics. The system is designed to let individuals index and otherwise manage their personal files, then make these files available throughout a P2P network. 'Many instructors, scholars, researchers, and librarians across higher education institutions have "hidden" repositories of digital content used for teaching, research, and outreach stored on their networks or even individual hard drives,' reads the LionShare grant proposal. The goal of LionShare is to open up this content into a federated search system so that 'a single search query [could] reach all available repositories,' allowing academics to share photographs, sounds, instructional videos, and even PowerPoint presentations to a degree never before possible." (Thanks to Jon Ippolito.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/08/2004 01:25:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
