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Creative Commons and the Commons

By Rufus Pollock On April 12, 2011 · 4 Comments

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 [...]

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Shuttleworth Fellowship – Activity in the Last 3 Months

By Rufus Pollock On March 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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 →

Speaking at Managing Public Sector Information and NCVO Conference

By Rufus Pollock On March 1, 2011 · 1 Comment

Today I’m speaking at two events in London:

Managing Public Sector Information – update: slides The NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organizations) Annual Conference
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Talking at British Library about Open Shakespeare

By Rufus Pollock On February 22, 2011 · 3 Comments

This 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

Outline

This talk will introduce http://www.openshakespeare.org/ — an innovative new approach to Shakespeare’s works, and, eventually, any literary text. The [...]

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Open Shakespeare Annotation Sprint

By Rufus Pollock On February 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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 Public Domain in 2011

By Rufus Pollock On January 3, 2011 · 1 Comment

According to http://publicdomainworks.net/ (which I helped build) there were 661 people whose works entered the public domain in 2011:

http://publicdomainworks.net/stats/year/2011

Of course, I should immediately state that this is a fairly crude calculation based on a simple life+70 model and therefore not applicable to e.g. the US with its 1923 cut-off (for those [...]

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CKAN v1.2 Released together with Datapkg v0.7

By Rufus Pollock On November 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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 →

Open Government Data Goes Global – OGDCamp Keynote

By Rufus Pollock On November 24, 2010 · 1 Comment

This is the keynote I gave as the opening to Open Government Data Camp 2010. Accompanying slides.

Keynote

Hello 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 [...]

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Data is a Platform not a Commodity

By Rufus Pollock On November 2, 2010 · 1 Comment

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.

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Speaking at PICNIC 10 in Amsterdam

By Rufus Pollock On September 21, 2010 · 1 Comment

This week I’m going to be in Amsterdam at PICNIC ’10 speaking about open data — what it is, why it’s good and how we can go about growing the open data ecosystem.

If you’re in Amsterdam — at PICNIC or otherwise — and interested in open data do get in touch.

Update: [...]

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