Something I saw recently (and took a picture of) that made me think of Where Does My Money Go? and Open Spending …
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 Continue Reading →Brilliant, especially strong in the sections dealing with the lead up to revolution and the period around and just after the ‘constitutional’ revolution of 1789.
Today I’m speaking at two events in London:
Managing Public Sector Information – update: slides The NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organizations) Annual ConferenceThis Thursday I and James Harriman-Smith will be heading over to the British Library to give a talk on Open Shakespeare and possibilities for “Open Literature”.
Update: Slides from the Open Shakespeare presentation
OutlineThis talk will introduce http://www.openshakespeare.org/ — an innovative new approach to Shakespeare’s works, and, eventually, any literary text. The [...]
Documenting my experience pushing mercurial repos to git (and github specifically).
Install hg-gitFollow https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git/src/tip/README.md
Install dulwich >= 0.6. On ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-dulwichGet the latest version of hg-git:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-gitAdd it to your extensions
[extensions] git = path/to/hg-git/hggit Push an existing mercurial repoAssuming you’ve got a git repo [...]
I’m talking next week at the 8th Cambridge Geek Night about Digging into Data with CKAN and datapkg.
Update: Slides
A new release (v0.8) of datapkg, the tool for distributing, discovering and installing data 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 substantial improvements to the download functionality of datapkg including support for extending the [...]
Cross-posted from Open Knowledge Foundation blog.
Tomorrow we’re holding the first Open Shakespeare Annotation ‘Sprint’. We’ll be getting together online and in-person to collaborate on critically annotating a complete Shakespeare play with all our work being open.
All of Shakespeare’s texts are, of course, in the public domain, and therefore already Continue Reading →
The equation of ‘intellectual property’ (IP) such as copyright with (traditional “real”) property is frequently made, especially by those advocating its extension. However, this equation is fundamentally erroneous and results in very serious misapprehension of the nature and effect of IP. In particular, patents and copyright confer monopolies in a way that ownership of real [...]
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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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