Rethinking Open Data: Lessons learned from the Open Data front lines
Nat Torkington recently wrote the following piece on O’Reilly Radar. He kindly gave us permission to republish it on the Open Knowledge Foundation blog… In the last year I’ve been…
7th Communia Workshop, Luxembourg
We recently attended a workshop in Luxembourg as part of Communia, the EU policy network on the digital public domain. There was a focus on bringing together themes from previous…
CERN opens up bibliographic metadata!
As regular readers of the Open Knowledge Foundation blog will know, bibliographic metadata is a subject close to our heart (see e.g., here, here and here). Hence we were delighted…
Public Domain Manifesto
On Monday the Public Domain Manifesto went live: http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/ From the introductory paragraph: The public domain, as we understand it, is the wealth of information that is free from the…
Data.gov.uk goes public – and its using CKAN!
Data.gov.uk goes public today, and we’ve very proud that it is using CKAN, our open source registry of open data, to list official UK government datasets (as we announced in…
Open Street Map community responds to Haiti crisis
There has recently been a flurry of activity in the Open Street Map community to improve maps of Haiti to assist humanitarian aid organisations responding to the recent earthquake. In…
Planning sessions for “Where Does My Money Go?”
Last week we had several planning sessions for our Where Does My Money Go? project – to discuss where to go next and what our priorities will be for the…
Draft of an Open Data Commons Attribution License
Yesterday Open Data Commons released a draft of a new attribution license specifically aimed at data and databases. We would warmly welcome feedback on the new draft, and help circulating…
New open data from London Datastore
As you may well have seen, last Thursday the Greater London Authorities announced the new London Datastore: From the press release: The Mayor of London will unveil plans for the…
Opening up UK local spending data
Just before Christmas, the UK Government announced a new report on Making local public expenditure data public, and the development of Local Spending Reports. The report outlines government plans to…