TheWeblogProject and the ideas behind it will be at the core of a presentation that I will deliver next Wednesday, June the 29th at the International Conferennce on Open Culture: Accessing and Sharing Knowledge, in Milan, Italy.

Within the freely accessible Internet-based digital infrastructure, new communities are forming and growing whose aim is to seek innovation in the process of knowledge building, exchanging, re-assembling and delivering.

While those involved in those creative activities are prompted by various motivations, a common belief is often shared that knowledge cannot be considered an exclusive property of those who discovered it.

Benefits will follow, in terms of feedback from peers and on the financial side as well, by spreading out results, under the least restrictions as possible, while invoking international law to protect authorship rights. Among the many fields involved, special relevance is given to the broadly scientific and educational areas due to their impact on society as a whole. Here, within the new collaborative knowledge creation and sharing framework two main components can be identified:

* the open source inspired way to broaden the educational community through the developing and sharing of learning content ('open content development');

* the open access model, the meeting point of a number of disciplines and approaches, information retrieval, library and information sciences management, knowledge management.

The topic of my presentation, which I will delivery on Wednesday June 29th at around 11-12am is:

"The Long Tail of Internet Video: why the new television, detached from commercial distribution channels, may become a great educational resource."

If you happen to be in Milan, I invite you to come and attend this event. Online registrations are open until june 27th and you can also register at the site of the event in downtown Milan.

Cost of access to the three-day event is €84 for normal attendees, and € 60 for AICA Fellows and €30 for Students.

More information about the event can be found here.

I am taking part in this event thanks to the good introduction that Andrius Kulikauskas has made of me to the organizing committe.

The event is organized by by AICA, the State University of Milan, and its Department of Information and Communication, Centro di Ateneo per le Biblioteche (CAB)of the University of Padua, the University of Parma, Bologna, the Economics Department of the University of Trento, CILEA and The eExplor Project.

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