For all you Twitter users out there, the OKF has now got an account... http://twitter.com/okfn J.
Hi all, After discussions with Cameron Neylon and Kaitlin Thaney, I've set up a new open science mailing list: http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open-science I've blogged about this here: http://blog.okfn.org/2008/09/05/new-open-science-mailing-list/ We'd really like to get as much of the open science community on this as possible, so please blog and forward as appropriate! Jonathan
Nature special on big data, including politics of environmental data sharing and Cory Doctorow on big data centres (including Sanger, archive.org,..)... http://www.nature.com/news/specials/bigdata/index.html Jonathan
Ive just been made aware of the Worldcat: http://www.worldcat.org/copyrightevidence/registry on one of the kid's literature lists I'm on which outlines copyright evidence that has been added to books. Looks nascent at the moment but might be useful for any searching the out of copyright or openness of a text and appears to be user generated. Iain -- Iain Emsley Blog: www.yatterings.com Mobile: 07942 259725
A reminder that a few of us are meeting on the #okfn IRC channel at oftc.net at 1900 BST tonight! If anyone has anything open knowledge related they'd like to discuss, propose, or tinker away at - please pop in and say hi! As well as using an IRC client, you connect using the web-based service Mibbit at: http://ur1.ca/4fh There's a rough agenda at: http://okfn.org/wiki/meetings/2008-09-03 Please add your name to the wiki if you're planning on coming. It would be great to see people there! Jonathan
Afternoon, I've just seen this article on Wired which I thought might be of interest: http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/09/open-source-tex.html Iain -- Iain Emsley Blog: www.yatterings.com Mobile: 07942 259725
Thought these blog posts might be of interest if people hadn't already seen them: http://powerofinformation.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/packaging-data-for-reuse/ http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2008/08/taggov/ Jonathan
I've been talking with various people about rehauling the main OKF site (okfn.org). Bits of it need pruning, and I think the whole thing could do with a bit of re-structuring to make it easier for people to understand what the OKF is about. I quite like the idea of a severely pared down main page - perhaps with a few basic icons (!) linking to main resources, a one line mission statement, and so on. It would also be great to have a few more useful things on the site. (E.g. an events calendar - which we've been talking about for a while..) What do people think? How should it look? Any suggestions for things to use? Anyone keen to help? Jonathan
I am going to start spending time on the #okfn IRC channel at oftc.net on Wednesday evenings at 1900 BST. If anyone has anything OKF related they'd like to discuss, propose, or tinker away at - please pop in and say hi! As well as using an IRC client, you connect using the web-based service Mibbit at: http://ur1.ca/4fh Possible things to start with this coming Wednesday: * OKF events - including events in London this autumn and OKCon 2009; * moving forward with CKAN; * any open knowledge projects (including OKF projects); * re-designing the main OKF site; * an open knowledge competition? I've put a tentative agenda at: http://okfn.org/wiki/meetings/2008-09-03 It would be great to see people there! Jonathan
Hi, Over on the fsb@... list, I just posted the following: 2008/8/30 Evan Prodromou <evan@...>: > > ...and on the Open Software Service Definition: > > http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd > > > The Definition > > > > An open software service is one: > > > > 1. Whose data is open as defined by the open knowledge > > definition (http://opendefinition.org/1.0/) with the exception > > that where the data is personal in nature the data > > need only be made available to the user (i.e. the owner > > of that account). > > > > 2. Whose source code is: > > A. Free/Open Source Software (that is available under a > > license in the OSI or FSF approved list This should be boolean AND instead of OR because the FSF and OSI lists diverge slightly; there are some OSI licenses - Artistic License 1.0, NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3, Reciprocal Public License - that the FSF state are non-free. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#NonFreeSoftwareLicense(Continue reading)
Thought this might be of interest... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7586789.stm Quotes: Projects such as Open Street Map, through which thousands of Britons have contributed their local knowledge to map pubs, landmarks and even post boxes online, are the first step in the fight back against "corporate blankwash", she added. ... But Ed Parsons, geospatial technologist at Google, said the way in which people used maps was changing. He said: "Internet maps can now be personalised, allowing people to include landmarks and information that is of interest to them. "Anyone can create their own maps or use experiences to collaborate with others in charting their local knowledge. "These traditional landmarks are still on the map but people need to search for them. Interactive maps will display precisely the information people want, when they want it. "You couldn't possibly have everything already pinpointed."
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