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DataPortability.org  www.dataportability.org Aims to consult, design, educate and advocate interoperable data portability to users, developers and vendors. Provides information about the project for users, developers, and executives, news, frequently asked questions, and how to get involved.

Drafting the Gift Domain  www.greglondon.com An introduction to IP law as it relates to Open Content (PDF).

Free Curriculum Project  www.nongnu.org/fcp An effort to create a complete K-12 curriculum and set of course materials that are "Free" in the GNU sense.

Information Research Weblog  www.free-conversant.com/irweblog A forum to exchange information on publications and websites of potential interest to the readers of the journal, Information Research, an open access, refereed, electronic journal covering the information field generally.

Open Content Alliance  www.opencontentalliance.org Represents the collaborative efforts of a group of organizations from around the world. List of contributors, call to participate, FAQs, and press releases.

OpenContent  www.opencontent.org Reason for being: "facilitate the prolific creation of freely available, high-quality, well-maintained Content." Content = everything but software.

O'Reilly Open Books Project  www.oreilly.com/openbook Read entire books online which were published under various forms of "open" copyright.

OSCOMAK: Open Source Community On Manufacturing Knowledge  www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/index.htm Goal: create a distributed global repository of production knowledge of past, present and future processes, materials, products.

Wikimedia Foundation  wikimediafoundation.org International non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth and development of free content, multilingual, wiki-based projects, and to providing the full content of those projects to the public free of charge.

World66  www.world66.com Free travel guide based on contributed open content.

First Monday - Open Content and Value Creation  www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_8/cedergren/index.html Article by Magnus Cedergren discusses models involving the driving forces in a theoretical open content value chain. (July 28, 2003)

Rice University's Connexions  creativecommons.org/education/connexions Article on the first steps of an experimental, open-source/open content project that will "give a learner... free access to educational materials that can be readily manipulated to suit her individual learning style". (December, 2002)