As part of my Shuttleworth Fellowship I’m preparing quarterly reviews of what I and the Open Knowledge Foundation have been up to. So, herewith are some some highlights from the last 3 months.
Highlights Substantial new project support from several funders including support for Science working group and Economics working group Our [...]As part of my Shuttleworth Fellowship I’m preparing bi-annual reviews of what I — and projects I’m involved in — have been up to. So, herewith are some some highlights from the last 6 months.
CKAN and the theDataHub Finalized separation of software and site: CKAN = data hub software, theDataHub.org = community [...]This week on Thursday and Friday I’ll be in Milan to speak at the 1st LAPSI (Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information) Primer & Public Conference.
I’m contributing to a “primer” session on The Perspective of Open Data Communities and then giving a conference talk on Collective Costs and Benefits in Opening PSI for [...]
Yesterday I was at RE:PUBLICA XI to give a talk on Open Government Data in the opening session of the “open” stream. The crammed to over-capacity room was a nice indicator of the growing attention and interest being generated by open data, and especially open governernment data. Slides online here [...]
Background: I first got involved with Creative Commons (CC) in 2004 soon after its UK chapter started. Along with Damian Tambini, the then UK ‘project lead’ for CC, and the few other members of ‘CC UK’, I spent time working to promote CC and its licenses in the UK (and elsewhere). By mid-2007 I was [...]
Yesterday, I was up in Harrogate at the UKSG (UK Serials Group) annual conference to speak in a keynote session on Open Bibiliograpy and Open Bibliographic Data.
I’ve posted the slides online and iframed below.
OutlineOver the past few years, there has an explosive growth in open data with significant uptake [...]
Something I saw recently (and took a picture of) that made me think of Where Does My Money Go? and Open Spending …
Today I’m speaking at two events in London:
Managing Public Sector Information – update: slides The NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organizations) Annual ConferenceI’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 [...]
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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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