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The Tragedy of the Enclosed Lands

January 13, 2007
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Normally I don’t like to blog things solely in order to propagate them, adding no commentary. But The Tragedy of the Enclosed Lands is about the most lucid, personal and…

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PD Burn receives BBC Phonograms data

January 9, 2007
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The kindly people at BBC Archives have supplied our project with 1.8 gigs (over 1,000,000 items) of data, which includes, in particular, listing of antique recordings. The exact rights status…

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Posted byby Rufus Pollock
Rufus Pollock

KForge 0.12 Released

January 8, 2007
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After nearly six months of work we’ve released a new version of the KForge software. KForge/KnowledgeForge is one the OKF’s main activities with the KForge software being used to run…

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Posted byby Rufus Pollock
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Improvements to the Concordance

January 3, 2007
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One of the main items scheduled for v0.4 of open shakespeare is improvements to the responsiveness of the concordance. Using the v0.3 codebase, using just the sonnets as test material,…

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Posted byby Rufus Pollock
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Striking confirmation from Google of the problems with ‘open’ APIs

December 21, 2006
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As of December 5th 2006 Google stopped issuing API keys for their SOAP search API. They appear to want to move people to their ajax service which provides much less…

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Francis Irving

A great day for the law and for the people

December 20, 2006
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Today the Department for Constitutional Affairs’ long awaited Statute Law Database project has launched, free at point of use for anyone. It’s super. Last week, access to consolidated versions of…

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Posted byby Rufus Pollock
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Adding Web-Based Annotation Support

December 18, 2006
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We intend to add annotation/commentarysupport to the open shakespeare web demo either in this release or next. As a first step we’ve been looking to see what (open-source) web-based annotation…

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Francis Irving

Office of Fair Trading report on the costs of knowledge monopolies

December 18, 2006
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“The OFT’s market study into the commercial use of public information has found that more competition in public sector information could benefit the UK economy by around Â£1billion a year.”…

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Rufus Pollock

Open Knowledge 1.0: London, Saturday 17th March 2007

December 14, 2006
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~ For redistribution to all relevant blogs, lists, forums and individuals ~ Event home page: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/ Event wiki page: http://okfn.org/wiki/okcon/ What On Saturday the 17th March 2007 the first all-day…

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Open Knowledge Forum on Civic Information (No. 2): Post-Event Information

December 6, 2006
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Both those who attended the Open Knowledge Forum on Civic Information, as well as those who couldn’t, will be happy to know that the presentations of several of the speakers…