Ben Wynne, Web Services and repositories, JISC Information Environment Team, June 3, 2009. Comment. Can any readers provide the event's name, location, and/or URL?

The four journals from Germany's GIGA (German Institute of Global and Area Studies) have converted to OA.  (Thanks to Informationsplattform Open Access.)

Google has launched the Google Labs edition of Google Squared, an attempt to capture structured open data and present it tabular form.  From the announcement: Comments I like this.  OA to structured data is useful but just the beginning.  OA alone doesn't help users query the data or view its structure.

The presentations from the CSIR workshop, Gaining the momentum: Open access & advancement of science and research (Pretoria, May 14, 2009), are now online.  (Thanks to P. Kovatcheva.)

Who Cares About Raw Data?, Open Scriptures, June 1, 2009.

Dorothea Salo, Talking points we didn’t know we had, Caveat Lector, June 2, 2009.

The BiblioSight project has been recommended for funding from JISC.

Khaiser Nikam and Rajendra Babu H., Moving from Script to Science 2.0 for Scholarly Communication, Webology, March 2009.

Andre Holzner, et al., First results from the PARSE.Insight project: HEP survey on data preservation, re-use and (open) access, presented at Workshop on Data Preservation and Long-Term Analysis in High-Energy Physics (Hamburg, January 26-28, 2009). Abstract: See also the other presentations from the conference. See also our past posts on PARSE.insight.

McGill University Library, McGill University Library becomes first Canadian content provider to participate in Digitize on Demand and Kirtasbooks.com, press release, May 29, 2009. (Thanks to Fabrizio Tinti.) Comment. The announcement says McGill will "make [the digitized books] available". Does that mean OA? See also our past posts on Kirtas. Update (from Peter, 6/6/09).

Rufus Pollock, The OKF Turns 5 - And We Need Your Support, Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, June 2, 2009.