Open Knowledge Foundation
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The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is an organization aiming to promote open content (referred to by the foundation as open knowledge). It was founded 24 May 2004[1] in the UK. The foundation has published the Open Knowledge Definition and runs several projects.

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Aims

The aims of the Open Knowledge Foundation are:[2]

  • Promote the idea of open knowledge, for example by running a series of forums.
  • Instigate and support projects related to the creation and distribution of open knowledge.
  • Campaign against restrictions, both legal and non-legal, on open knowledge.

It was co-founded by Rufus Pollock who remains a Director of the Company, along with Martin Keegan and Jo Walsh. The company Open Knowledge Foundation Limited was incorporated in 20 May 2004.

The Open Knowledge Trail

The Open Knowledge Trail [3] addresses issues in the following areas, and is at the core of the Foundation's ethos:

Conferences

The Open Knowledge Foundation held the first Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) in 2007, and the second in in March 2008. In Autumn 2005 the Foundation had co-organized together with Node.London and others a similar entitled the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures. All of conferences have so been held London, UK. It appears that the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon)[4] is intended to become a regular event.

The theme of the 2007 conference was Atomisation and Commercial Opportunity.[5]

Some of the talks were as follows:[6]

  • The Public Domain Works Database and the Public Domain Burn project [7]
  • Visualizing Public Media[8]
  • Planning Alerts[9]
  • The SP-ARK Project (Adventure Pictures)[10]

Charles Arthur spoke about the Free Our Data campaign, which aims to encourage the UK government to make 'impersonal government data available at cost'. Other speakers include Steve Coast of OpenStreetMap and Ed Parson who said that current licensing of Ordnance Survey data was unsatisfactory.[11]

Projects

Some of the projects are listed below:[12]

Links

References

  1. ^ "Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog » Blog Archive » Open Knowledge Foundation Launched". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  2. ^ "okcon - The Open Knowledge Foundation". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  3. ^ "open knowledge trail - The Open Knowledge Foundation". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  4. ^ "okcon - The Open Knowledge Foundation". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  5. ^ "okcon/2007 - The Open Knowledge Foundation". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  6. ^ "okcon2007 - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  7. ^ "Public Domain Works". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  8. ^ "Center for Social Media at American University". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  9. ^ "PlanningAlerts.com - Email alerts of planning applications near you". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  10. ^ "SP-ARK - Sally Potter". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  11. ^ "Annual Report 2007 - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  12. ^ "projects - The Open Knowledge Foundation". Retrieved on 2008-02-14. Open Knowledge Foundation Projects
  13. ^ "Open Software Service Definition Launched". Retrieved on 20080825.
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