Open Knowledge Conference/Program/A Year in Review

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Title

A Year in Review

Authors

Rufus Pollock

Keywords

open data

Abstract

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Notes and comments

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