Canadian citizen-driven data catalogue datadotgc.ca is powered by CKAN
Not so long ago we were in contact with David Eaves, a Canadian public policy analyst and open government data advocate (who advises the Mayor of Vancouver about open data…
OKCon 2010 tomorrow in London!
We’re very excited about this year’s annual Open Knowledge Conference, OKCon 2010, which will take place in London tomorrow! http://www.okfn.org/okcon/ Speakers and sessions include: ‘State of the Nation’ Keynotes: Matthias…
Nat Torkington joins OKF Advisory Board!
We’re delighted to welcome Nat Torkington to the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Advisory Board! You may have seen his two recent pieces on O’ Reilly Radar on the future of open…
Ordnance Survey opens up UK mapping data!
Subsequent to the recent consultation on Ordnance Survey data and Gordon Brown’s commitment to opening up (an unspecified amount of) the data in a speech last week – today the…
Aid Information Challenge, London, 10th April 2010
The Open Knowledge Foundation has a keen interest in opening up data on international development – from our international development panel at OKCon 2009, to our recent report on unlocking…
New working group on open bibliographic data!
In the past few weeks there have been a number of developments related to opening up bibliographic metadata. At the end of January we blogged about CERN opening up their…
Launch of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science and ‘Is It Open Data?’ Web Service
We are pleased to announce the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science: http://www.pantonprinciples.org/ From the preamble: Science is based on building on, reusing and openly criticising the published body…
Mapping open government data initiatives around the world
The Open Knowledge Foundation and Access Info are currently seeking information on open government data initiatives around the world, as part of a scoping paper supported by the Open Society…
Open data on international development: let us know what you think!
Last autumn we released the first draft of a working paper on opening up data related to international development. The report covers how to legally and technically open up aid…
Interested in making an open data catalogue? Virtual meeting on 11th February 2010
We’ve been working hard to set up instances of CKAN for open government data – most notably in data.gov.uk but also for open government data in Germany, France, Canada and…