Jo Walsh (who’s also a member of the Open Knowledge Foundation) has written a great post over on the mappinghacks blog about the development a new data model for OpenStreetMap. Though focused on the issue of modelling geodata the points she raises, particularly in relation to ‘Audit’ functionality (change tracking, versioning etc), are applicable to many other areas of open knowledge development and I strongly recommend reading the original post in full.
Rufus Pollock is Founder and President of Open Knowledge.