Open Licenses vs Public Licenses
The following post is from Jordan Hatcher, a Director at the Open Knowledge Foundation and founder of the Open Data Commons project. It was originally posted on his blog. Let’s…
The Zen of Open Data
Just spotted this on the New Zealand open government data ‘ninjas’ list. Why have principles when you can have poems? 😉 The Zen of Open Data, by Chris McDowall Open…
Enriched publications in Dutch archaeology
The following guest post is from Janneke Adema, researcher in the department of media and communications at the University of Coventry, member of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Working Group on…
Pushing the envelope
The following guest post is from Francis Bacon, member of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Working Group on Open Knowledge in Development and blogger at Pop Goes the Weasel. A few…
Introducing LAPSI and EVPSI
The following guest post is from Claudio Artusio, who works for the LAPSI and EVPSI projects. Information generated and collected by public sector bodies represents a veritable gold mine: optimal…
The Power of Open Data
The following guest post is from David Bollier, independent policy strategist, journalist, and author of Viral Spiral. It was originally posted at the On the Commons blog. Science has always…
B-Open: Open Data from Bristol City Council
The following guest post is from Stephen Hilton, Programme Lead of the Connecting Bristol initiative. Unusually perhaps, for a city council, we recognise and relish the fact that our city…
Open data and the voluntary sector
The following guest post is from David Kane, who is a research officer at NCVO. He blogs on NCVO’s website and can be found on twitter @kanedr. The author wishes…
How to Visualise Worldbank Data with Google Maps
The following guest post is from Holger Drewes, who is a member of Open Knowledge Foundation Germany and the Open Data Network in Berlin. As interfaces for open datasets from…
Open Data in Agriculture and Why It Matters
The following guest post is from Elizabeth McVay Greene, Founder of Food+Tech Connect. It was originally posted on Food+Tech Connect, Provenance and the Huffington Post. The farmer usually knows best…