The School of Data is [no-longer] hiring!
Please note: the recruitment process for a Project Coordinator has now closed. If you are interested in working for the Open Knowledge Foundation, please see our jobs page for more…
“Demand carbon dioxide data” says Hans Rosling to open data advocates at OKFestival
Gapminder is one of the best known examples of a project which uses open data to improve public understanding of big global issues and trends. Yesterday Gapminder Founder Hans Rosling,…
New open source “publishing-house-in-a-box” makes it easier for scholars to publish open access monographs
Today the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) released a new piece of software called the Open Monograph Press. As it says in their press release: OMP is an open source software…
“Rest assured, the EU is behind you” says European Commissioner Neelie Kroes to OKFestival participants
If you have more than a passing interest in EU policies related to the internet, digital content and digital technologies then you’ve probably heard of Neelie Kroes, Vice President of…
The Revenge of the Yellow Milkmaid: Cultural Heritage Institutions open up dataset of 20m+ items
The following is a guest blog post by Harry Verwayen, Business Development Director at Europeana, Europe’s largest cultural heritage data repository. Last week, on September 12 to be exact,…
Recycle public sector data with the Big Clean on November 3rd 2012 in Prague
Public sector data lives a short life. Its life spans the life of applications that are hidden deep inside of public bodies. Tied to application-specific data formats, the data dies…
#OpenDataEDB 3
Amidst the kerfuffle and cacophony of the Fringe Festival packing up for another year, the Edinburgh contingent came together again to meet, greet, present and argue all aspects of Open…
UK Departmental Government Spending – Improving the Quality of Reporting
Continuing in their mission to make spending data more accessible and comprehensible, the Spending Stories team and the team of Data.Gov.Uk are releasing a reporting tool today that will help…
Open Data, Technology and Government 2.0 – What Should We, And Should We Not Expect
This is second of two pieces about “managing expectations” (the first is here). Open data has come a long way in the last few years and so have expectations. There’s…
New open access recommendations ten years on from Budapest Open Access Initiative
The notion of open access – or making research freely usable by all, without cost or legal barriers – has been in the news quite a bit this year. It…