Friends of Knowledge work for Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for libraries and archives 

Mr. Chairman, we welcome the presentation by the distinguished delegates of Brazil on the treaty on limitation for Libraries and Archives as well as the modified proposals of IFLA and other like-minded organizations and for want of a better expression, Mr. Chairman, permit me to just refer to them as friends of knowledge. Nigeria delegation, [...]

Oh, hello there 

It has been a very long time since I last posted here, and during that time I’ve done a great deal of thinking about what to do with the blog. I’ve had offers from colleagues to take it over and keep running it as a purely SemWeb blog, but I have been reluctant to let [...]

Off the grid 

At this moment, I am sitting in the dark (during the middle of the day, mind, it’s that grey and dark here in London today) cold, with the power off. Not for the first time in the past few months I find myself without electricity, without warning (and not by choice), in my building. There’s [...]

New year, new you (sort of) 

8/365 Originally uploaded by Fiona Bradley Once again, I find myself in a new year doing new things and being not entirely sure what to do with the blogs and domains I’ve dragged along with me. In 2009 I wrote several articles on next-generation catalogues thanks to my role in working on a new catalogue [...]