Month: February 2013

Posted byby Theodora Middleton
February 21, 2013

European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes praises work of Open Knowledge Foundation Greece

Great News! Neelie Kroes, the Vice President of the European Commission, has sent her personal best wishes to the OKF team in Greece who launched their brand new open data…

Posted byby James Monogan
February 20, 2013

Preregistration in the Social Sciences: A Controversy and Available Resources

This blog post is cross-posted from the Open Economics Blog. For years now, the practice preregistering clinical trials has worked to reduce publication bias dramatically (Drummond Rennie offers more details).…

Posted byby Neil Ashton
February 20, 2013

Data roundup, February 20

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. TOOLS, COURSES, AND EVENTS A major update…

Posted byby Tony Hirst
February 20, 2013

Made to Measure: Reshaping Horsemeat Import/Export Data to Fit a Sankey Diagram

As the food labeling and substituted horsemeat saga extends across the EU, we might expect to see more and more data relating to the story turning up. One place that…

Posted byby Rufus Pollock
February 20, 2013

The Open Data Census – Tracking the State of Open Data Around the World

Recent years have seen a huge expansion in open data activity around the world. This is very welcome, but at the same time it is now increasingly difficult to assess…

Posted byby Rufus Pollock
February 19, 2013

Geocoding Part II: Geocoding Data in a Google Docs Spreadsheet

This tutorial follows on from the previous Introduction to Geocoding. There is now a geocoding “recipe” based on this tutorial that you may want to check out A very common…

Posted byby Theodora Middleton
February 19, 2013

From Open Data to GovData: why the OGP matters in Germany

The following post is by Maria Schröder and Christian Heise from the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. It is cross-posted (and slightly shortened) from the Open Government Partnership blog. Germany’s official…

Posted byby Rufus Pollock
February 19, 2013

Geocoding Part I: Introduction to Geocoding

Geocoding is the conversion of a human-readable location name into a numeric (or other machine-processable) location such as a longitude and latitude. For example: London => [geocoding] => {latitude: -0.81,…

Posted byby Theodora Middleton
February 15, 2013

Boundless Learning demands a jury trial

We’ve been following the case of Boundless Learning on the OKF blg (see here and here), in which the world’s most prominent producer of Open Access textbooks online is being…

Posted byby Velichka Dimitrova
February 15, 2013

Open Research Data Handbook Sprint

On February 15-16 we are updating the Open Research Data Handbook to include more detail on sharing research data from scientific work, and to remix the book for different disciplines…

Open Technology Research Officially Launches to Strengthen Global Research Community

The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons

Open Knowledge Foundation Priorities for the 2025 OGP

Travis Gerke: ‘Academia is still very supportive of the singular hero scientist. But most things take teams’

Andrés Vázquez: ‘90% of technological problems can be solved with tools that have been around for decades’

Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’

Our Network Contribution to Shape the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy

School of Data Returns: Scaling Digital Literacy Through Trainer Multipliers

Presentation & Expert Roundtable: ‘From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World’