The history of the online Commons, including the Creative Commons licenses and Open Access repositories, can be traced back to the 1960s and the development of Open Source software and the open and free licenses that have supported this movement.
Recently, the Centre for Educational Research and Development (CERD), have completed JISCPress, a project that “allows communities to comment on, discuss, annotate and review documents in considerable detail. As a platform, JISCPress discovers relationships between hosted documents and provides a variety of ways to make discovery easy and useful.”
All of the software developed for the JISCPress project is now available under an Open Source license (either GPL 2 or Modified BSD). You can read more about JISCPress on the project website.
The project is based on WordPress, which is licensed under the GPL. We funded the development of digress.it, a plugin which provides the main paragraph level commenting feature, as well as a plugin which keywords and creates relationships between documents on the platform and another plugin which converts the documents to Linked Data and publishes the data on the Talis Platform.
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[...] JISCPress: An Open Source software project | Commons Kevin: A very interesting open source document collaboration and annotation project from the Centre for Educational Research and Development. It's based on WordPress and has its roots in the WriteToReply and digress.it projects. Digress.it is a plugin that allowed paragraph level commenting. The project also reveals semantic relationships between documents in the repository. Very clever stuff licenced under GPL 2 or Modified BSD licences. (tags: software wordpress collaboration documents semanticanalysis) [...]
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