It's probably worth noting on this line of thought that "Unglue.It" has now started releasing published books into the CC world, as far as I can see, by sort of "buying out" the copyright (anyone who understands the business model please correct/clarify!):
https://unglue.it/ Cheers, M -----Original Message----- From: Keith Alexander [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 13 September 2012 10:54 To: Mike Dupont Cc: Olivier Berger; Denny Vrandečić; [email protected] Subject: Re: Deserted Island Sem Web reading list Hi, http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/ is Creative Commons licensed and http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/ is freely available on the web. Cheers, Keith Alexander On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Mike Dupont <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > how about a list of books that are creative commons or some other > license that we can translate freely into another language? > thanks > mike > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Olivier Berger > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > I have the feeling that if you are on a deserted island, the >> > Semantic Web might not be the most urgent topic to learn about. >> > >> > My suggestion would be to take some books that teach you how to >> > build and navigate a raft, return to a place with a reasonable >> > internet connection, and learn by building applications using data >> > found in the LOD cloud. >> > Once you are there, "Programming the Semantic Web", "Learning >> > SPARQL", "A Semantic Web Primer", "Foundations of Semantic Web >> > Technologies", "About Face 3" should amount to a good start. >> > >> >> Uh, URIs for references of these on the SemWeb ? ;) >> >> Sorry, couldn't resist. >> >> Best regards, >> -- >> Olivier BERGER >> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: >> 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, >> Telecom SudParis, Evry (France) >> > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion > http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of > the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep > https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 >
