Data Catalog Schema and Protocol – Draft Specification
Open Data is an idea that continues to gain momentum, and one of the signs of this is that the world has more and more data catalogs. This is great…
Talk at European Data Forum: Open Data, Where We’ve Come From, Where We’re Going
Last week I was at the European Data Forum and gave a Keynote entitled Open Data, Where We’ve Come From, Where We’re Going. Here are the slides.
Talk at LIFT 2012: Open Data – How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
I’m pleased to announce that the video of my talk, Open Data: How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going, that I gave a few weeks ago at the LIFT…
Introducing the DataStore
A major new feature in the DataHub is good news for data wranglers. The DataStore allows users to store and load structured data into a database, where it can be…
Announcing the Open Definition Licenses Service
We’re pleased to announce a simple new service from the Open Knowledge Foundation as part of the Open Definition Project: the (Open) Licenses Service. The service is ultra simple in…
Dreams of a Unified Text
The following is a blog post by Rufus Pollock co-Founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation. I have a dream, one which I’ve had for a while. In this dream I’m…
Two Open Knowledge Events in Cape Town: Africa@Home and Open Knowledge Meetup
The following post is by Francois Grey and Rufus Pollock. Francois is a recent Shuttleworth Fellow, visiting professor at Tsinghua University working and coordinator of the Citizen Cyberscience Centre. Rufus…
Scaling the Open Data Ecosystem
This is a post by Rufus Pollock, co-Founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation. As reported elsewhere I’ve been fortunate enough to have my Shuttleworth Fellowship renewed for the coming year…
Open Data: Wishlist for the Next Year
In our closing session at Open Government Data Camp, we asked keynoters to reflect on what developments they would most like to see in the next year in relation to…
Omidyar Network support OKF to go global
The following is a post by Jason Kitcat, Foundation Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. Last Thursday we were delighted with the news that the Omidyar Network (ON) have agreed…