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==Title==
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A Year in Review
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==Authors==
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[[Rufus Pollock]]

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[[open data]]

==Abstract==
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Intro from Rufus Pollock:

*[[OKFN]] is a [[not for profit organisation]]
**building on history of other orgs, such as 

* Concept of 'open' goes back to Chinese book printing.

* Open is about technology 

* Open requires people to declare it, via a license.

* OKFN has ~12 working groups and projects that are then attached to those groups.

* Other OKFN chapters launching = Leipzig launching in May

* if interested in forming your own group contact them (@EvoMRI did)

* "the year open data went mainstream" - data.gov.uk launched in January

* Props to John Sheridan and his political push for open data, e.g. data.gov.uk

* Central Gov't is changing their viewpoint towards open.

* CKAN powers data.gov.uk and is used by 5 other orgs = open catalogue

* "On our way to realising the Debian of Data"

* getting people together to interoperate with data

* most people suck at data - spreadsheets

* [God, I wish the Rewired State people would realise this. CSV dumps is leeches, XML is penicillin, RDF is an MRI scan. -Tom] <-- I like it (me too, but I'm MRI-biased)

* lots of people, not very co-ordinated

* "RDF is very high cost" [any more than writing a SQL schema? An XML format? CSV headers? I don't buy it. It is like the whole thing with type systems - yeah, you can do def foo(x, y) but you have to mentally keep track of the types in your head rather than letting the computer do it for you. -Tom]

* new OKFN WGs: EU, bibliographic information, development, archaeology

* bibliographic information - Swedish and German national libraries now publish linked data

* Exemplars

*  Where does my money go <http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/>

* Open Shakespeare <http://www.openshakespeare.org/>

* Kforge

* Public domain works calc

* opendefinition.org

* PantonPriciples

* Open Database Licences

* Oneclickor.gs <http://www.oneclickor.gs/>

* OKFN built demonstrator to show whereealth, education, public, economic affairs, defence, public safety, social protection...etc

* money tracking via data is only skin deep, in the billions, not able to easily track in the millions.

* The 3 S's = Search, Storage and Services

* these three are the infrastratructure for our scoiety

* we are too happy with closed

* /end

* Q&A

* what's going on with open bibliographic data, who owns it?

* OKFN trying to work more with Cambridge and BL to publish bib data.

* What about in other countries?  How will it pan out for them?

* UK has been a leader in this area because of political push, i.e. TBL, etc.

* What about the political motivations?

* "Whoever wins will be committed to going down this route"

* Can't put the genie back in the bottle