Workshop on Finding and Re-using Public Information, Saturday 1st November
October 29th, 2008
As we blogged a few weeks back we’re putting on a workshop on ‘Finding and Re-using Public Information’, co-organised with the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI), the Power of Information (POI) Taskforce and mySociety. Its coming up this Saturday!
Details are as follows:
- When: Saturday 1st November 2008, 1030-1600
- Where: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QS. (See map.)
- Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicInformation
- Participation: Attendance is free. If you would like to come along please add your name to the participants list, or email us (info at the okfn domain).
So far participants include:
- Jonathan Gray, The Open Knowledge Foundation
- Rufus Pollock, The Open Knowledge Foundation
- Richard Allan, The Power Of Information Task Force
- Richard Stirling, Cabinet Office
- John Sheridan, the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI)
- Dave Briggs, DavePress
- Dominic Campbell, FutureGov and Barnet Council
- Harry Metcalfe, The Dextrous Web TellThemWhatYouThink
- Anna Maybank, Social Innovation Camp
- Chris Taggart, Count Culture
- Sarah Gentleman Research Information Network
- Robert Brook
- Noel Hatch, Kent County Council - Innovation
- Ruth Tye
- Christian Nold
- Chris Corbin, ePSIplus
- Paul Appleby, TSO
- William Perrin, Cabinet Office
- Rhian Jones, RICU Digital Media, Research, Information and Communications Unit
- Ian Ibbotson, Knowledge Integration Ltd t (DCSF ISPP Project, Peoples network Discover, etc)
- Adrian Norman, Psiphon
From the wiki page:
The UK Government produces and distributes a vast amount of documents and datasets - from national statistics to environmental information, from socio-economic data to legal material. Recent technologies allow this information to be explored, built upon and made accessible in new ways - whether through visual representation, semantic interlinking, or through social media applications.
This informal, hands-on workshop will bring government information experts together with those who are interested in finding and re-using government information. In addition to focused discussions about legal and technological aspects of re-use, government information assets will be documented and tagged on CKAN, a registry of knowledge resources.
We are looking forward to it!
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 pm
[...] The Open Knowledge Foundation (which I’m involved in) is co-organizing with MySociety and OPSI, a Workshop on Finding and Re-using Public (Sector) Information. [...]
November 4th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
[...] On Saturday was the Workshop on Finding and Re-using Public Information (which we blogged about last week). We had very positive feedback from participants, and we’ll certainly consider doing something similar again in the future. [...]