[A2k] Fwd: UK [okfn-announce] Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No. 1

[Michelle Childs]

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> From: "Jonathan" <jonathan.gray@okfn.org>
> Date: 1 June 2007 10:36:20 BDT
> To: okfn-announce@lists.okfn.org
> Subject: [okfn-announce] Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No. 1
> Reply-To: jonathan.gray@okfn.org
>
>
> Welcome to the first Open Knowledge Foundation newsletter.
> Following is a
> glimpse of what we've been up to in recent months.
>
>
> OPEN KNOWLEDGE 1.0
> ==================
>
> Open Knowledge 1.0 took place on Saturday 17th March at Limehouse Town
> Hall in London. Over 70 people came to hear the panels and
> participate in
> the open space. There were three main sessions on Open Geodata,
> Open Media
> and Open Civic and Scientific Information. Speakers included:
>
>     * Ed Parsons (Open Geomatics, ex- Ordnance Survey)
>     * Steve Coast (Open Street Map)
>     * Charles Arthur (Guardian)
>     * Paula Ledieu (Magic Lantern)
>     * Susana Noguero and Olivier Schulbaum (Platoniq)
>     * Zoe Young (Transmission)
>     * Tim Hubbard (Sanger Institute)
>     * Peter Murray-Rust (Cambridge University)
>     * John Sheridan (Office of Public Information)
>
> Links to write-ups, blog posts, audio files and other material are
> available at:
>
>    http://www.okfn.org/okcon/after/
>
>
> We are starting to plan next years OKCON. If you have any
> suggestions or
> would like to be involved, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
>
>
> PUBLIC DOMAIN WORKS
> ===================
>
> Public Domain Works is an open registry of artistic works that are
> in the
> public domain. The project aims to provide a database of metadata
> in a raw
> and reusable form.
>
> In January, the kindly people at BBC Archives supplied our project
> with
> 1.8 gigs (over 1,000,000 items) of data, which includes, in
> particular,
> listings of antique recordings. In March the Open Rights Group
> joined the
> project.
>
>
> Public Domain Works <http://www.publicdomainworks.net/>
> Project Overview <http://www.okfn.org/pdw/>
>
>
> OPEN SHAKESPEARE
> ================
>
> Open Shakespeare was first released just over a year ago, and reached
> version 0.4 in April. The idea is to have the complete works of
> Shakespeare, ancillary information and a web interface in a form
> that is
> open in accordance with our Open Knowledge Definition
> (http://okd.okfn.org/). Recently our efforts have focused on
> improving its
> annotation system and concordance. To explore visit:
>
>    http://demo.openshakespeare.org/
>
> We are currently looking for public domain material to supplement the
> works with, commentary on the texts, and help with the code and the
> web
> interface.
>
> Open Shakespeare <http://www.openshakespeare.org/>
> Project Overview <http://www.okfn.org/shakespeare/>
>
>
> OPEN ECONOMICS
> ==============
>
> Version 0.4 of Open Economics was released in April. It consists of
> a data
> store, a web interface, a python library, and a graphing tool.
> Currently
> you can explore figures related to patent registrations, crop prices,
> music sales, interest rates, price index and population growth.
>
> Our main priorities are to add more data, and to work on the web
> interface.
>
> Open Economics <http://www.openeconomics.net/>
> Project Overview <http://www.okfn.org/econ/>
>
>
> FURTHER INFORMATION
> ===================
>
> If you would like to know more about our activities over the past
> year,
> you can look at our annual report and our active projects page. If
> you are
> interested in participating in any of the OKF's projects, please
> see our
> participate page, or join the OKF discuss list.
>
> Annual Report 2006-7 <http://www.okfn.org/wiki/Annual_Report_2007>
> Active Projects <http://www.okfn.org/projects/>
> Participate <http://www.okfn.org/participate/>
> OKF Discuss List <http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss>
>
>
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Michelle Childs
Head of European Affairs
Knowledge Ecology International
michelle.childs@cptech.org