We’re very excited about this year’s annual Open Knowledge Conference, OKCon 2010, which will take place in London tomorrow!
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:
There are still some tickets left, if you want to come but haven’t yet registered:
Dr. Jonathan Gray is Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, where he is currently writing a book on data worlds. He is also Cofounder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris). More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org and he tweets at @jwyg.
Was there a 2011 conference held recently?
Hi Joseph,
Yes! You can see more info on it here: http://okcon.org/2011/after
Best,
Lucy
Hello,
Keep an eye on http://okfn.org/ for information about future events.
trio