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Rufus Pollock

Rufus Pollock is Founder and President of Open Knowledge.

Posted byby Rufus Pollock
March 21, 2013

Announcing the Open Knowledge Conference 2013: Open Data – Broad, Deep, Connected

The Open Knowledge Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2013 Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on 17th -18th September. The theme of this year’s…

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March 13, 2013

Open Data Maker Night

This coming Tuesday the Open Knowledge Foundation are organizing an Open Data Maker Night in London at the Centre for Creative Collaboration! When: Tuesday 19th March, 18:00 – 21:00 Where:…

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February 27, 2013

Open Data on the Web Workshop April 2013

The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) together with the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Open Data Institute, are pleased to invite you to join a jointly organized workshop to discuss how…

Posted byby Rufus Pollock
February 20, 2013

The Open Data Census – Tracking the State of Open Data Around the World

Recent years have seen a huge expansion in open data activity around the world. This is very welcome, but at the same time it is now increasingly difficult to assess…

Posted byby Rufus Pollock
February 19, 2013

Geocoding Part II: Geocoding Data in a Google Docs Spreadsheet

This tutorial follows on from the previous Introduction to Geocoding. There is now a geocoding “recipe” based on this tutorial that you may want to check out A very common…

Posted byby Rufus Pollock
February 19, 2013

Geocoding Part I: Introduction to Geocoding

Geocoding is the conversion of a human-readable location name into a numeric (or other machine-processable) location such as a longitude and latitude. For example: London => [geocoding] => {latitude: -0.81,…

Posted byby Rufus Pollock
January 22, 2013

Web Scraping with CSS Selectors in Node JS using JSDOM or Cheerio

I’ve traditionally used python for web scraping but I’d been increasingly thinking about using Node JS given that it is based on a browser JS engine and therefore would appear…

Posted byby Rufus Pollock
November 26, 2012

The Open Knowledge Foundation Needs Your Support

We have never been so busy! Over the past 18 months we have been working with hacks and hackers, citizens and civil servants, students and scientists to open up knowledge which should…

Posted byby Rufus Pollock
October 4, 2012

Making a Real Commons: Creative Commons should Drop the Non-Commercial and No-Derivatives Licenses

Students for Free Culture recently published two excellent pieces about why Creative Commons should drop their Non-Commercial and No-Derivatives license variants: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons…

Posted byby Rufus Pollock
October 3, 2012

Video: Julia Kloiber on Open Data

Here’s Julia Kloiber from OKFN-DE’s Stadt-Land-Code project, talking at the OKFest about the need for more citizen apps in Germany, the need for greater openness, and how to persuade companies…

Open Technology Research Officially Launches to Strengthen Global Research Community

The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons

Open Knowledge Foundation Priorities for the 2025 OGP

Travis Gerke: ‘Academia is still very supportive of the singular hero scientist. But most things take teams’

Andrés Vázquez: ‘90% of technological problems can be solved with tools that have been around for decades’

Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’

Our Network Contribution to Shape the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy

School of Data Returns: Scaling Digital Literacy Through Trainer Multipliers

Presentation & Expert Roundtable: ‘From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World’