...weil auch in Europa das Patentfieber ausbricht...
via flosse posse

Interessanter Beitrag von Owen Stephens and Damyanti Patel zu den keynotes von Matthew Pittinsky von Blackboard. Die Folien sind online und haben mich zum Staunen, ja Schmunzeln gebracht - hier an der Uni Innsbruck, die auf Bb schwört, spürt man von den beschriebenen Entwicklungen noch rein gar nichts, ja wirklich gar nichts..
...aber noch viel interessanter ist der Kommentar eines gewissen Stuart zu diesem Beitrag:

So if Bb are really embracing open architectures why are they reinventing all of these systems? Why not just say we recognise that many of you have or will have repositories, we know you've all got to have PDPs in place by this summer, we know that many academics have well-established networks in place (some going back over 20 years) so we're going to show how these can interface with our system; NOT we are going to build yet another part of the monolith and sell it back to you. Persuading academics to deposit their closely guarded 'learning materials' in a 3rd party commercial object repository may be nigh on impossible, and should we really be depositing the valued assets of UK HE in such a place?