Eurostat Hackday, 16th December 2010
We’re currently organising a ‘hackday’ on the Eurostat data, which will take place on Wednesday 16th December 2010: If you’d like to get involved, please get in touch on the…
Launch of NosDonnees.fr, a community driven French open data catalogue
A quick note to announce (and celebrate!) the launch of a new community driven French open data catalogue, NosDonnees.fr last Friday in Paris. The catalogue is a joint initiative between…
Open Data Hackathon this Saturday 4th December!
A brief reminder that this Saturday 4th December is the international open data hackathon! What is it? As says the blurb: It’s a gathering of citizens in cities around the…
Interested in open government data in Europe?
As you may know the OKF is working on an EU funded project called LOD2. Part of the project aims to bring together openly licensed, machine-readable datasets from local, regional…
Announcing The Big Clean, Spring 2011
We’re very excited to announce that we’re helping to organise an international series of events to convert not-very-useful, unstructured, non-machine-readable sources of public information into nice clean structured data. This…
New mapping tool from European Fish Subsidy project
The folks over at Fish Subsidy (who are also behind the amazing Farm Subsidy project) have just released a new mapping tool to help people find out how €3.4 billion…
Design Meets Data, Berlin, 29th November 2010
We’re helping to organise an event (hopefully a series of events!) about data visualisation in Berlin later this November. We started doing workshops on open source visualisation technologies in London…
Where are the cuts in your country?
As you may have seen, last week the OKF launched a new mini project called WhereAreTheCuts.org. Created by by Jordan Hatch and Richard Pope, the site enables UK citizens to…
If you care about public sector information in Europe – speak up now!
The European Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive is intended to make it easier for everyone to find and reuse information produced by public bodies. The European Commission’s recognition of the…
Which works enter the public domain in 2011?
Every year on January 1st hundreds of works enter the public domain around the world. So how do we know which works will come of age in 2011? Like last…