As part of my Shuttleworth Fellowship I’m preparing quarterly reports on what I’ve been up to. So, herewith are some some highlights from the last 3 months. (Previous update – Sept-Dec)

Talks and Events

• Talk at CCSR in Manchester about Open Data
• Talk at Cambridge Geek Night
• Workshop at Dev8D
• Talk at EPSI Platform Berlin – Open Data: Apps for Everyone?
• Talk at British Library
• Talk at Managing Public Sector Information
• Talk at NCVO Annual Conference
• Panel session at JISC Annual Conference

Projects

• The Annotator (and AnnotateIt.org)
  • The last 3 months from mid-December until now have seen intensive work on the Annotator software and we have now v1.0 ready to go (announce imminent). As well as the javascript library whose development I have planned and overseen, I have personally developed the python-based Annotator store webapp deployed at AnnotateIt.org. We now plan to launch the system and work with partners to integrate and scale up.
  • Open Shakespeare Annotation Sprint
• CKAN Software and CKAN Sites
  • CKAN v1.3 released
  • New CKAN wiki and CKAN site
  • CKAN tutorial at Dev8d
  • DataGM (Data Greater Manchester) launched using CKAN
  • http://data.hri.fi using CKAN with Alpha and Beta released
  • More community instances
  • http://OpenDataSearch.org/ (blog announce)
  • http://PublicData.eu/
• Where Does My Money Go? / Open Spending
  • Becoming Open Spending
  • New Open Spending wiki
  • Major code development (Last milestone)
  • Community development
• Open Economics Working Group
  • YourTopia – Development beyond GDP – Blog Post – Entry in World Bank Apps competition
  • http://energy.publicdata.eu/ – Putting Europe’s Energy Targets in Context
  • User Guide for CKAN
• Planning OKCon
  • OKCon Announce

General

• German Chapter of OKF formally established
• Open Government Data – several meetings of the UK Public Sector Transparency Board
• As Coder is for Code, X is for Data
• PyWordpress – Python Lib for WordPress
• Even more items in the OKFN Autumn 2010 Newsletter