| LC control no. | no2013012100 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Swartz, Aaron, 1986-2013 |
| Variant(s) | Swartz, Aaron H., 1986-2013 Schwartz, Aaron, 1986-2013 |
| Biography/History note | At 14, Mr. Swartz helped create RSS, the nearly ubiquitous tool that allows users to subscribe to online information. He later became an Internet folk hero, pushing to make many Web files free and open to the public. Swartz crusaded for open access to data. His projects include a range of influential efforts like the Internet Archive, Creative Commons, Wikipedia and the Recap collection of legal documents. |
| Birth date | 1986-11-08 |
| Death date | 2013-01-11 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Freedom of information RSS feeds Internet and activism Open access publishing |
| Affiliation | Electronic Frontier Foundation Internet Archive (Firm) Creative Commons (Organization) Students for Free Culture |
| Profession or occupation | Computer programmers |
| Found in | OCLC database, 4 Feb. 2013 (access point: Swartz, Aaron) New York times, 13 Jan. 2013 (Aaron Swartz; died Friday (Jan. 11, 2013], New York, N.Y.; a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped develop code that delivered ever-changing Web content to users and who later became a steadfast crusader to make that information freely available.) Wikipedia, 13 Jan. 2013 (Aaron Swartz; Aaron H. Swartz, born November 8, 1986, Chicago, Illinois; died Jan. 11, 2013, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y., aged 26; an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer, and Internet activist) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz> |
| Associated language | eng |
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