Guide to Open Data Licensing
Over the last month we’ve been working to produce a Guide to Open Data Licensing. As the name should make clear this is a guide to licensing data aimed particularly…
Open Textbook Project Launched
Today we are pleased to announce the launch of Open Textbook, a place to list and keep track of news about textbooks that are open in accordance with the Open…
Open Knowledge Foundation Annual Report 2006-2007
Today we published our 2006-2007 annual report that details some of what we have been up to over the last year. The following is taken from the introduction to that…
iCommons 2007: Retrospective Reflections
The iCommons conference in Dubrovnik, where I’ve been for the last few days, finished yesterday. This has been a great event (a big well done to Heather Ford and all…
Euro Directive on Re-Use of Public Sector Information: What Is Actually Happening at the Local Level?
John Gray has recently been conducting some rather interesting research on the degree of re-use actually being achieved at local government level in the UK pursuant to the Euro Directive…
AMEE: The Open CO2 Emissions Platform
One of the highpoints of XTech last week was the presentation of Gavin Starks about AMEE (Avoiding Mass Extinction Engine). AMEE is a “a platform for collaboration on Climate Change…
XTech 2007
Last week I was at the XTech conf along with Jo Walsh in order to present in the Open Data track. We built on our recent discussion to argue for…
What Do We Mean by Componentization (for Knowledge)?
Background Nearly a year ago I wrote a short essay entitled The Four Principles of (Open) Knowledge Development in which I proposed that the four key features features of a…
How to Develop Geodata Domain Models
Jo Walsh (who’s also a member of the Open Knowledge Foundation) has written a great post over on the mappinghacks blog about the development a new data model for OpenStreetMap.…
New Version (v0.4) of Open Economics Released
This is the fourth release of the Open Economics project and the first that has been deemed ‘worthy’ of a full release announcement. The Open Economics project provides data storage…