OKF talking at Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin
Several of us from the Open Knowledge Foundation will be at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin after Christmas. The 26th Chaos Communication Congress takes place from December 27th to…
UK Government announces lots of new open data!
This morning UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced plans to open up lots more UK Government data! His speech describes plans to put much more detailed information online under open…
Climate Change, Climate Sceptics and Open Data
With the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen starting on Monday, it is of vital important that there is consensus on the scientific evidence about climate change, in order…
After the Open Data and Semantic Web Workshop
Last week we had a workshop on Open Data and the Semantic Web in London. There were some excellent talks, demos and discussions – and documentation is now online! As…
New Linking Open Data group on CKAN
Our Open Data and Semantic Web workshop is coming up next Friday 13th November in London, kindly sponsored by Talis. In preparation for the workshop, we have started a Linking…
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,…
Data.gov.uk Launched – and it’s Using CKAN
The UK Government’s public sector data site launched last week in a private beta — and it’s using CKAN as its backend for storing all its dataset info! They’ve got…
Opengov.se – a registry of open government data in Sweden
Opengov.se is a registry of open government data in Sweden: Opengov.se is an initiative to highlight available public datasets in Sweden. It contains a commentable catalog of government datasets, their…
Opening Up Government Data: Give it to Us Raw, Give it to Us Now
Last month Rufus Pollock, Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, spoke at OpenTech 2009 in a session with Richard Stirling of the Cabinet Office and John Sheridan of the Office…