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We’re very excited about this year’s annual Open Knowledge Conference, OKCon 2010, which will take place in London tomorrow!

• http://www.okfn.org/okcon/

Speakers and sessions include:

• ‘State of the Nation’ Keynotes:
  • Matthias Schindler, Wikimedia (Germany) on ‘Bibliographic Data and the Public Domain’
  • Glyn Moody, on the ‘Post-Analogue World’
  • Peter Murray-Rust, on ‘Recent Developments in Open Science’
  • Chris Taggart, on ‘Open Local Government Data’
  • Sören Auer, on ‘Linked Open Data’
  • Jordan Hatcher, on ‘Open Licensing for Data’
• Ideas and Culture with talks on analyzing ‘Dickens Letters’ and ‘Making the Physical from the Digital’
• Open Bibliographic Information with talks on ‘The Itinerant Poetry Library’ and the ‘Journal Commons’
• Community Driven Research with talks on ‘Climate data’ and ‘Open Archaeology’
• Civic Information with talks on ‘Using Open Government Data to Profile Politicians’ and the ‘Straight Choice’
• Open Government Data and PSI in the EU which looks at the current state of play in France, Norway, Germany, the UK and elsewhere
• Tools with talks on ‘Large-scale data handling and revisioning’ with the Genome, Ontowiki, CKAN and more
• Open Data and the Semantic Web with talks about South Korean DBPedia and Thesaurus Management Tool ‘Pool Party’
• Open Data in International Development including talks from PublishWhatYouFund and on OpenStreetMap in Haiti

The full programme is available at:

• http://www.okfn.org/okcon/programme

There are still some tickets left, if you want to come but haven’t yet registered:

• http://okcon2010.eventbrite.com/

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