Slides from Open Data Session at ISWC 2009
The Open Knowledge Foundation’s Jordan Hatcher recently co-led a workshop on Legal and Social Frameworks for Sharing Data on the Web at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference. He was…
The Open Knowledge Foundation is seeking an Editor for Open Text Book!
We are seeking an Editor for Open Text Book, one of the highest ranked sites on the web for finding textbooks that you can freely use, reuse and redistribute: http://www.opentextbook.org/…
Open data on cities: an international round up
Over the last few months there have been lots of exciting announcements about open data from cities around the world. We decided to take a look at what is currently…
New CKAN features!
We’ve recently been working hard to improve CKAN. Now you can try out some of the new features… Groups – While CKAN already allows packages to be categorized with tags,…
New mockups for “Where Does My Money Go?”
We recently blogged about some mockups for our Where Does My Money Go? project. We’ve now got some new mockups for the project which are show below (click through for…
OpenFlights data released under Open Database License (ODbL)
OpenFlights is a site for “flight logging, mapping, stats and sharing”. We’re very pleased to hear they’ve just released their data under the Open Database License (ODbL): One of OpenFlights‘…
Opening up e-Government in Europe: accessibility, transparency and the ‘right to reuse’
European policy analyst David Osimo recently invited me to be on the steering committee of a new ‘Open Declaration on Public Services 2.0’. The background page says: Every two years,…
First mockups for “Where Does My Money Go?”
We are currently building a prototype for the Where Does My Money Go? – and we’ve now got the first mockups of what the site will look like… For full…
Public Domain Calculators Meeting, 10-11th November 2009
There is often a tendency to talk of ‘the public domain’ and of works falling out of copyright and ‘into the public domain’ – as though there is a single…
Ernest Marples UK postcode site has been taken down
Ernest Maples, a free service providing postcode data which we blogged about in July has recently been taken down due to legal action from the Royal Mail. Harry Metcalfe, one…