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Dead knowledge: why being explicit about openness matters

August 8, 2006
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When I think of the amount of knowledge that is ‘dead’ because of a lack of explicitness about its ‘openness’ I am always surprised by the number of examples. Consider…

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Why open geodata in an open source software foundation?

August 1, 2006
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I was lucky enough to be able to attend the pre-OSCON meeting of FLOSS Foundations – a group of people too-intimately involved in the management of free and open source…

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DfT Workshop to Discuss Data Mashup Lab: Summary

July 25, 2006
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These are some highly impressionistic notes taken at a workshop on a cross-gov data mashing lab which took place today at the Royal Society in London organized under the aegis…

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Open Shakespeare v0.2

July 15, 2006
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With a little bit of free time over the last couple of weeks I’ve managed to do some more work on open shakespeare. The new version (v0.2dev) is up and…

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The Value of the Public Domain Published

July 14, 2006
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As advertised in a previous post my paper entitled The Value of the Public Domain was published today by the IPPR as a part of a set commissioned for their…

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IPPR ‘IP and the Public Sphere’ Seminar

July 5, 2006
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On the 14th the IPPR Digital Society and Media team will be publishing a collection of papers as part of their project on intellectual property (IP) and the public sphere.…

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The KForge/KnowledgeForge project is one the OKF’s core activities and the KForge software is being used to run both http://www.knowledgeforge.net/ and the administrative backend for the main OKF site: http://admin.okfn.org/.…

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Public Domain Works Database Project

June 29, 2006
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The Open Knowledge Foundation have been working on a Public Domain Works Database in association with with Free Culture UK (as part of FC-UK’s larger Public Domain Burn project). There…

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Alpha Site Up

June 29, 2006
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As of last weekend there is a alpha version of the registry up at: http://alpha.publicdomainworks.net/ If all went well Tom Chance demoed this at the iCommons summit in Rio de…

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The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

June 26, 2006
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It took 12 years to produce (1988-2000) and cost 4.5 million dollars (according to its editor Richard Talbert). It has a whole page dedicated to listing donors and supporters of…