This is a cross-post of the release announcement originally put up on the OKFN Blog.
We’re delighted to announce CKAN v1.2, a new major release of the CKAN software. This is the largest iteration so far with 146 tickets closed and includes some really significant improvements most importantly a new Continue Reading →
A major new release (v0.7) of datapkg is out!
Release: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/datapkg Docs: http://packages.python.org/datapkg/There’s a quick getting started section below (also see the docs).
About the releaseThis release brings major new functionality to datapkg especially in regard to its integration with CKAN. datapkg now supports uploading as well [...]
This is the keynote I gave as the opening to Open Government Data Camp 2010. Accompanying slides.
KeynoteHello and Welcome!
I’m Rufus Pollock from the Open Knowledge Foundation. We’re delighted to have such great a group of people here and many thanks to all of you that have come, especially if you’ve [...]
This Thursday and Friday marks the start of the Open Government Data Camp an Open Knowledge Foundation event I’ve been helping to organize. It’s the first of it’s kind, and what we hope will be an annual event. People are already arriving from across the world to attend including representatives from the UN, [...]
I’ve been working on web-annotation — inline, online annotation of web texts — for several years.
My original motivation was to support annotation of texts in http://openshakespeare.org/ so we can collaboratively build up critical notes but since then I’ve seen this need again and again — in drafting new open data licenses, with [...]
A phrase I’ve been using in talks recently:
Data is a platform not a commodity: you build on it rather than sell it. And that’s why it should be open.
6.5. Fincher does a great job to weave the variegated strands into a film that is engaging throughout. However, as with his previous Zodiac, one wondered what the point was – a problem made worse here by the lack of a single character who can elicit our sympathy.
About
Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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