Introducing Our New Project Coordinator: Jason Kitcat
Hello, my name is Jason and I’m OKF’s newest addition to the team. I’m filling a new role at the OKF to keep an overview of live projects, liaise with…
Introducing GetTheData.org: Ask and Answer Data Related Questions
The following post is by Tony Hirst, who has been working with Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge to create http://GetTheData.org/, a new question and answer site for data-related questions.…
Spending Stories
The following post is from Jonathan Gray, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. We submitted a proposal for a project called Spending Stories to the Knight News Challenge back…
Launch of the Principles on Open Bibliographic Data
The following post is from Adrian Pohl, coordinator of the OKFN Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data. Yesterday, the Principles of Open Bibliographic Data were launched at the Peter Murray-Rust…
Opening up linguistic data at the American National Corpus
The following guest post is from Nancy Ide, Professor of Computer Science at Vassar College, Technical Director of the American National Corpus project and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s…
Introducing Yourtopia.net
The following post is from Dirk Heine, a member of the new OKF Working Group on Economics and a member of the YourTopia.net Today we’re announcing a simple new app…
Who wants to build an open social bookmarking service?
The following post is from Jonathan Gray, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. As you may well have heard, in December there were rumours that the Delicious social bookmarking…
BuioMetria Partecipativa
The following is a guest post by Andrea Giacomelli of BuioMetria Partecipativa (Participatory Sky Quality Monitoring), an Italy-based project that is also producing open data. Light pollution is a major…
Launch of the Public Domain Review to celebrate Public Domain Day 2011
The following post is from Jonathan Gray, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. The 1st of January every year is Public Domain Day, when new works enter the public…