The Public Domain Class of 2013
This is a cross-post from The Public Domain Review, a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Top Row (left to right): Stefan Zweig; Bronislaw Malinowski; Francis Younghusband Middle Row (left…
Research Data Management in Economic Journals
This blog post is written by Sven Vlaeminck | ZBW – German National Library of Economics / Leibniz Information Center for Economics Background In Economics, as in many other research…
The Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter, December 2012
Well here in the northern hemisphere the days are drawing in and winter is upon us. Autumn’s been ace though, and as busy as ever! OKFest went better than we…
Your Timeline Submissions Wanted for the Open Book
The Finnish Institute in London and the Open Knowledge Foundation are publishing a book, and we want you to be a part of its history. The Open Book (publish date…
Data roundup, December 6th
We’re rounding up data news from the web each week. If you have a data news tip, send it to us at schoolofdata@okfn.org. This week we have big news. The…
The Webpage is the API – Scraping Resources
Webscraping is one of the most powerful techniques for obtaining data – it allows you to treat nearly any website out there as data sources. Thus allowing you to create…
Show me the (quality) data!
Show me your data! Put it online! Make it re-useable and accessible! That’s the rallying cry of many in the Open Data movement. Few, at this point, seem to be…
Let’s defend Open Formats for Public Sector Information in Europe!
Following some remarks from Richard Swetenham from the European Commission, we made a few changes relative to the trialogue process and the coming steps: the trialogue will start its meetings…
Launching the Open Sustainability Working Group
This blog post is written by Jorge Zapico, researcher at the Center for Sustainable Communications at KTH The Royal Institute of Technology and Velichka Dimitrova, Project Coordinator for Economics and…
OpenSpending CSO Workshop – Sarajevo
The full story from Sarajevo can be found on the Open Spending blog A while back, we wrote about the kickoff of our project to deliver the budget of Bosnia…