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Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No. 13
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog —
Authority: 463
Welcome to the thirteenth Open Knowledge Foundation newsletter! For a plain text version for email, please see: Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No. 13 - on our main okfn-announce list Microblog version: RT @jwyg: Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn Newsletter No. 13: http://bit.ly/7CeAfN OPEN ...1 day ago -
Follow-Up to the Tempe GIS Data Request
James Fee GIS Blog —
Authority: 462
You might recall the issue where I wanted some GIS data from the City of Tempe? Well they finally told me to make a public information request and they’d evaluate my request . Well I got back a response this week: Dear Mr. Fee: I have reviewed your public records request for the “complete city of Tempe ...2 days ago -
Open Data Will Be All the Rage in 2010
Health Content Advisors —
Authority: 111
Despite a dismal year for the media industry, there is one major trend we can all look forward to in 2010: Open Data. Open data is more than a trend; it represents a shift in worldview about using research, business intelligence, and outcomes data. Tim Berners-Lee’s talk at TED in early 2009 promoted the power ...2 days ago -
OKF talking at Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog —
Authority: 463
Several of us from the Open Knowledge Foundation will be at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin after Christmas. The 26th Chaos Communication Congress takes place from December 27th to December 30th 2009. OKF Director Rufus Pollock will give a talk on ‘CKAN, apt-get for the Debian of Data’. If you’re ...2 days ago -
Free Software, Open Data give more opportunities to young Kosovars
fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news —
Authority: 160
Kosova is a country with many serious problem and one of the highest percentages of young people. Some of them are using and advocating Free Software and Open geographic data as a tool to give young Kosovars more opportunities and a brighter future. Advertisement Your ad here!3 days ago -
Opening my eyes: open data, open government
LibraryTechNZ —
Authority: 114
Open data was without a doubt one of the biggest trends 2009 for people like us who work in the happy Venn diagram sweet spot of government and culture/heritage. There was the State Services Commission release of the draft NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework (which the Library gave feedback ...3 days ago -
Open data brings Afghanistans electoral landscape to life
techPresident —
Authority: 592
Here is where the rising trend of open government data starts to get particularly exciting. The well-known and well-established National Democratic Institute (NDI) partnered with the creative firm Development Seed to make use of the data put out by Afghanistans Independent Election Commission on this summers very ...3 days ago -
BC Government’s blog on renewing the Water Act
eaves.ca —
Authority: 421
On Friday the Government of British Columbia announced that it was beginning the process to renew the provinces water act . This is, in of itself, important and good. More interesting however, is that the government has chosen to launch a blog to discuss ideas, prospective changes and generally engage the public ...3 days ago -
DRAFT report explores Linked Data potential in UK Universities
Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data —
Authority: 400
One of the projects I’ve been working on recently is for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) here in the UK. Like the BBC, the UK Government and others, they’re interested in the opportunities created by adoption of Linked Data, and will be issuing a call to fund some projects in the space early ...6 days ago -
Big Apps Are Here
MediaShift Idea Lab —
Authority: 421
Ive already voiced my own suspicion that New York Citys Big Apps competition is a deft end-run on an actual open data bill in New York City. Nonetheless, some 85 applications built on the citys currently public data sets are available now to explore and vote on through early January. They include a handful of ...6 days ago -
Open Source Trends in Government
Intel Software Network Blogs —
Authority: 525
Open source usage within the government has been a hot topic recently with the announcement about whitehouse.gov moving to Drupal and the memo from the Department of Defense (DoD): Clarifying Guidance on Open Source Software . Input, a research firm focused on government business, announced last week that Cloud ...1 week ago -
Visualizar ‘09
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog —
Authority: 463
The project presentations from last month’s Visualizar seminar have now been posted online. This annual event brought together creative teams from a range of disciplines, with the objective of delivering workable presentations using freely available data resources. The theme for 2009 was Public Data - Data In ...1 week ago -
A podcast with Flip Kromer of InfoChimps… and the end of an era
Paul Miller - The Cloud of Data —
Authority: 400
I’ve been following InfoChimps for some time, intrigued by their aspiration to build a marketplace for data that combines the free with the paid. Thanks to the team at Jones-Dilworth (honestly, does Josh have any clients that aren’t interesting?) I managed to get some time with founder Philip (Flip) Kromer ...1 week ago -
Philip (Flip) Kromer talks about InfoChimps and building a data marketplace
Nodalities —
Authority: 406
In my latest podcast I talk with Flip Kromer, co-founder of InfoChimps . We explore the background to InfoChimps, and discuss their aspiration to build a marketplace in which people can contribute and find data – both freely available and commercial.1 week ago -
Report of Linked Data Camp Vienna
The Semantic Puzzle —
Authority: 400
Earlier this month the first ever Linked Data Camp took place in Vienna at the Quartier für Digitale Kunst . This two day event attracted about 35 people to discuss and to jointly work on novel applications for the Web of Data. The first day started off with a keynote by Richard Cyganiak form DERI Galway’s ...1 week ago -
Interview with Jordan Hatcher on legal tools for open data
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog —
Authority: 463
The Open Knowledge Foundation ’s Jordan Hatcher was recently interviewed by the Semantic Web Company about Why we can’t use the same open licensing approach for databases as we do for content and software : Legal certainty is crucial when it comes to build business around new technologies. The Open ...1 week ago -
Hatcher on Open Data Licensing
Digital Rights - Sound and Fury —
Authority: 122
Here is an interview with Jordan S. Hatcher on “Why we can’t use the same open licensing approach for databases as we do for content and software.” The mission of Open Data Commons is to provide legal tools for open data, and we’ve produced two legal tools to date. We’re looking to expand our work to ...1 week ago -
Canada Dragging Its Feet on Open Data Initiatives
Michael Geist Blog —
Authority: 675
Earlier this year, I wrote about the budding momentum behind governments making their data more readily available to the public for reuse. Open data initiatives have generated dozens of commercial and non-commercial websites that add value to the government data. Some make the data more understandable by using ...1 week ago -
Interview on open data licensing now up
opencontentlawyer.com —
Authority: 91
Just a quick note that I did an interview with the Semantic Web Company on open data licensing, which is now up on their site: Jordan S. Hatcher: “ Why we can’t use the same open licensing approach for databases as we do for content and software. “ Comments welcome!1 week ago -
City Go Round…and ‘Round and ‘Round
TheCityFix.com —
Authority: 521
FrontSeat, the software company that brought you WalkScore, just released a great service called City-Go-Round. The new site is a clearinghouse of useful online and mobile transit applications across the United States. Transit applications and ...1 week ago
