I’ll be talking at Data Insights Meetup today on the topic of Digging into Open Data.
Where: Fountain Inn, Cambridge, UK (OpenStreetMap) When: Feb 2nd 2012, from 7:30pm AbstractThere has been growing interest, especially in government, in ‘open data’. This talk will explain what open data is, why it is important [...]
Tomorrow evening (Thursday) I will be giving the ICAEW’s (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) IT faculty annual lecture. I will be talking on the topic of “Open Data: What, Why, How” — more info below.
The event is free, but unfortunately invite only due to limited capacity -(email richard.steele@icaew.com to attend). [...]
I’m travelling quite a bit over these next few weeks:
This week, from Tuesday 10th through Saturday 14th I’m in Brasilia to participate in CONSEGI and talk about open data. I’m then in Amsterdam from Sunday 15th through Tuesday 17th to participate in a workshop on Global Interoperability and Linked Data Workshop [...]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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’m talking next week at the 8th Cambridge Geek Night about Digging into Data with CKAN and datapkg.
Update: Slides
This Tuesday (25th Jan) I’ll be giving a seminar at Manchester University’s Centre for Census and Survey Research on Open Data.
The seminar is 4-5pm and there’ll be an open-data workshop/discussion from 12-4. If you’re interested in working with open data generally or any Open Knowledge Foundation projects specifically, for example [Where Does [...]
-
Categories
- *nix
- Academic
- Activity Updates
- Books
- Cinema
- Code
- Command Line
- Copyright
- Culture and Society
- Data Digging
- Economics
- EUPD
- External
- Filesharing
- Governance
- Hacks
- Happiness
- Hardware
- History
- Innovation and Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Myths
- Javascript
- Knowledge Systems
- Miscellaneous
- Musings
- Notes
- Open Bibliographic Data
- Open Data
- Open Knowledge Foundation
- Openness
- Own Work
- Papers
- People
- Photos
- Platforms
- Poetry
- Policy
- PSI
- Python
- Quote
- RDF
- Shuttleworth Fellow
- Software
- Sysadmin
- Talks
- Transaction Costs
- Work In Progress
-
Articles
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- October 2004
- June 2004
- May 2004
- March 2004
- October 2003
-
Meta
