The Open Knowledge Definition has been translated into Greek.

The EU Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) has launched the Irish Digital Humanities Observatory.

The October 2008 issue of Ariadne is now available.

Sane Bhagyashree and Gole Bhakti, Mahitichi mukta upalabdhata, Sakaal, October 14, 2008; self-archived November 13, 2008. (In Marathi.) English abstract: See also our past posts on Open Access Day.

Scientific Commons has added timeplots of deposit activity for the repositories it indexes. See, for example, the graphs for E-LIS or PubMed Central. See the blog post by Lars Kirchhoff for details. See also the similar graphs provided by the Registry of Open Access Repositories.

Helicos Launches Open Access Web Site With Microbial Genome Data, press release, November 14, 2008.

ObamaCTO is a new site for recommending ideas to Obama's CTO and voting on the ideas submitted by others.  (It's independent of the Obama transition team.) I just submitted this idea:  Unfortunately I can't give you a deep link.  But if you search for "open access" you'll find it.  Because it was added fairly late in the game, it doesn't have nearly as many votes as the other ideas.

Nan L. Singh, The Librarian As Essential Key to Connecting Open Educational Resources and Information Literacy in the Academic World, essay for a class at San Jose State University, self-archived November 12, 2008.

Greer L. Hauptman, The Library and the Bazaar: Open Content and Libraries, essay for a class at San Jose State University, self-archived November 12, 2008.

Maria Cassella recently self-archived 4 of papers on OA. Each is in Italian with an English abstract: Open access e ricerca scientifica: il caso dei National Institutes of Health USA Le collezioni del secondo millennio. Spunti di riflessione dal 10. Fiesole Collection development Retreat Come cambia il ruolo dei bibliotecari. Il caso dei depositi istituzionali Berlin 5 e oltre.

The Free Our Data blog reported on November 12 that the Ordnance Survey, the UK's mapping agency, has been contacting local agencies instructing them not to re-use any data derived from the Ordnance Survey (for instance, no Google Maps mashups). (Thanks to Glyn Moody.) The news comes on the heels of the Show Us A Better Way competition, which asked Britons for their ideas on how to re-use public sector information.