Open Definition Advisory Council launched
February 15th, 2008
We are pleased to announce the launch of an Advisory Council for opendefinition.org. The Council will be formally responsible for maintaining and developing the Definitions and associated material found on the Open Definition site - including the Open Knowledge Definition and the Open Service Definition. As many of you will know, these definitions aim to provide clear and succinct sets of conditions for ‘openness’ in knowledge and services.
Jordan Hatcher of opencontentlawyer.com has kindly agreed to be Chair of the Council, which includes:
- Paul Jacobson, iCommons
- Paul Miller, Talis
- Peter Murray-Rust, Cambridge University
- Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation & Cambridge University
- Rob Styles, Talis
- Peter Suber, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) & Earlham College
- Luis Villa, Columbia Law School, GNOME Foundation & Open Source Initiative
- Jo Walsh, Open Knowledge Foundation & Open Source Geo-Spatial Foundation
- John Wilbanks, Science Commons
More detailed biographies are available on the Advisory Council page.
It is our intention that the overall development of the material on the site will continue in the same community based and collaborative manner. The Council’s role will be to provide oversight, guidance and input into this process, not to replace it.
This is fantastic news for the definitions projects!
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February 15th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
[...] "Open Knowledge" sta per cononoscenza aperta, vale e dire una conoscenza libera, accessibile, comprensibile ed universale: pur abbisognando di essere estesa (penso di estenderla io se non lo farà nessun altro entro breve), una voce di Wikipedia ne illustra già molto bene il significato concettuale, per cui qui non mi dilungo nel farlo. Vorrei invece sottolineare che esiste una Open Knowledge Foundation, una fondazione creata nel 2004 con lo scopo di promuovere (e di proteggere) la conoscenza aperta, nell’idea che questo approccio alla produzione e alla distribuzione del sapere apporterà dei sostanziali benefici sociali e commerciali all’interà società umana, benefici possibili sia nel breve, sia nel lungo, sia nel lunghissimo termine. "By open knowledge we mean knowledge which anyone is free to use, re-use and redistribute without legal, social or technological restriction" dichiara la Open Knowledge Foundation sul proprio sito web, rimandando poi ad un sito denominato Open Knowledge Definition per una più approfondita comprensione dei principi che definiscono il termine "open" di open knowledge. Un Advisory Council per opendefinition.org è stato appena designato, riporta altresì il blog dell’OKF, ed oltre ad essere responsabile di una Open Knowledge Definition (1.0 al momento) esso si occuperà anche di una Open Service Definition, cioè di applicare il termine "open" al mondo del Software as a Service (SaaS). [...]
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