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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Is It Going to be Made Open?

December 4, 2006
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Over a four year period in the mid-1990s a team of scholars centred on the Du Bois institute at Harvard compiled a comprehensive database of transatlantic slave-trading voyages. Over 27,000…

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UK National Statistics: Are They Open or Not?

November 30, 2006
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I’ve used data a couple of times from the UK’s national statistics site: The other day I went there to investigate their licensing as part of an effort to do…

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Open Knowledge Forum on Civic Information: Tomorrow Night at UCL in London

November 27, 2006
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As announced previously, in association with the UCL department of Computer Science, we’re running an Open Knowledge Forum on Civic Information tomorrow night at UCL in London. There’s still some…

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INSPIRE: Where Next?

November 24, 2006
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The OKF has been very actively involved in the publicgeodata’s campaign on the INSPIRE directive. Now that it appears compromise between all of the parties — the European Commission, Council…

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Future of Copyright Roundtable at Birkbeck

November 22, 2006
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On the 19th and 20th of last month I attended a roundtable organised by the AHRC Copyright Research Network and the Public Programmes Department of Tate Modern under the grand…

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Response to WIPO Consultation on Performing Impact Assessments for IP in the Creative Industries

November 17, 2006
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Below is the response that was submitted by the OKF to a WIPO consultation on the Economic, Social and Cultural Impact of Intellectual Property in the Creative Industries back in…

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Open Knowledge Drives Out Closed (in the Long Run)

November 6, 2006
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After Gresham’s Bad money drives out good though with opposite sense. Open knowledge here is taken as given by the open knowledge definition and, in its essentials, means the knoweldge…

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Switch from Kid to Genshi for templating in the Web Interface

November 4, 2006
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Today we made the switch from kid to genshi as our templating toolkit in the web interface. Kid has served us well but there are some issues with debugging and…

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Mashing up is hard to do

November 2, 2006
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Mashups, what. Two or more data sources or works combined to become a new data source or work. A media cultural term (cf Steinski) now applied to web applications; comparable…

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Open Knowledge Forum on Civic Information No. 2

October 30, 2006
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Organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation in association with the UCL faculty of Computer Science (Ian Brown) Web page: http://www.okfn.org/okforums/civicinfo2/ Speakers John Sheridan, Head of e-Services at the Office of…