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<div class="entry-content"> <p>We are pleased to announce that the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) has been selected as a grantee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation for the second year in a row to continue working on improving the Open Data Editor (ODE) application, making it more accessible and widely used by organisations around the world, and increasing data literacy in key communities.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-31001" class="post post--excerpt post-31001 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-ai category-open-data category-open-data-editor category-open-software category-open-standards category-okfn-projects category-research category-technical category-the-tech-we-want"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2025/01/06/open-data-editor-how-and-why-we-are-integrating-ai-into-the-app/" rel="bookmark">Open Data Editor: How and why we are integrating AI into the app</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>How can AI help non-technical users validate and improve the quality of their data in the Open Data Editor, taking into account transparency, privacy, and functionality?</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-30971" class="post post--excerpt post-30971 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-asia-hub category-nepal category-open-data category-open-data-editor category-open-knowledge-network category-open-software category-open-standards category-okfn-projects category-talks category-the-tech-we-want"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/12/23/making-data-work-easier-highlights-from-the-global-voices-summit-2024/" rel="bookmark">Making Data Work Easier: Highlights from the Global Voices Summit 2024</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>How often do you interact with data in your daily tasks? For many of us, working with data has become a regular part of our professional and personal lives. But, do you have the coding skills needed to clean and prepare data for deeper analysis? The Open Data Editor is here to help.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-30752" class="post post--excerpt post-30752 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-events category-open-software category-open-standards category-openclosed category-talks category-technical category-the-tech-we-want category-the-tech-we-want-summit"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/11/20/panel-we-are-making-the-tech-we-want/" rel="bookmark">Panel: We are Making the Tech We Want</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>With the skills that the panellists have, it would be easier to work for the mainstream tech industry and just go with the flow. But they’ve all chosen a different path: making software that makes sense. In this conversation, we’ll share the trajectories of some open, free/libre, and alternative technologies, and discuss how to tip the scales in our favour amidst a solutionist discourse in an ultra-specialised industry.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-30717" class="post post--excerpt post-30717 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-advocacy category-open-research category-open-standards category-releases category-reports category-research"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/11/18/report-open-movements-commons-causes/" rel="bookmark">Report: Open Movement’s Common(s) Causes</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>This report outlines a shared advocacy strategy for the Knowledge Commons, based on a mapping of opportunities and threats facing the open movement that took place at Common(s) Cause, a Wikimania 2024 side event.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-30604" class="post post--excerpt post-30604 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-data category-open-data-commons category-open-definition category-open-research category-open-standards category-policy category-okfn-projects category-sustainable-data-commons"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/10/23/open-data-commons-in-the-age-of-ai-and-big-data/" rel="bookmark">Open Data Commons in the age of AI and Big Data</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>AI is bringing forth new types of capture, appropriation and enclosure of data that limits the realisation of its collective societal value. </p> </div> </article> <article id="post-30558" class="post post--excerpt post-30558 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events category-open-software category-open-standards category-the-tech-we-want category-the-tech-we-want-summit"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/10/22/the-tech-we-want-summit-recordings-thank-you/" rel="bookmark">The Tech We Want Summit: Review the recordings of what was a great community moment in 2024</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The event brought together our beloved community of technologists, practitioners and creators for two days to show that a different technology stack is possible.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-30506" class="post post--excerpt post-30506 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events category-open-knowledge category-open-software category-open-standards category-our-work category-the-tech-we-want-summit"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/10/11/the-tech-we-want-summit-full-programme-announcement/" rel="bookmark">The Tech We Want Summit: Full Programme Announcement</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The Tech We Want Summit is just around the corner. Today we are announcing the full programme for day one, Thursday 17 October, featuring 28 speakers from all around the world across 5 panels and 2 keynotes.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-30480" class="post post--excerpt post-30480 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-data category-open-data-editor category-open-software category-open-standards category-our-work category-okfn-projects"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/10/02/the-open-data-editor-is-now-ready-for-the-pilot-phase/" rel="bookmark">The Open Data Editor is now ready for the pilot phase</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>This week saw the release of version 1.1.0 of the Open Data Editor (ODE), the new Open Knowledge Foundation’s app that makes it easier for people with little to no technical skills to work with data. The app is now ready to enter a crucial phase of user testing.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-30474" class="post post--excerpt post-30474 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-data category-open-data-editor category-open-standards category-our-work category-okfn-projects"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/10/02/are-you-a-developer-help-us-test-the-open-data-editor/" rel="bookmark">Are you a developer? Help us test the Open Data Editor!</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The Open Knowledge Foundation is looking for four developers with Python and React JS skills to test the Open Data Editor (ODE) desktop application between October and November and help us improve its functionality. </p> </div> </article> <article id="post-30423" class="post post--excerpt post-30423 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-data category-open-government category-open-software category-open-standards category-policy"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/09/11/unlocking-the-power-of-data-for-peace-highlights-from-the-policy-driver-document-for-data-accessibility-and-user-friendliness-in-peacebuilding/" rel="bookmark">Unlocking the Power of Data for Peace: Highlights from the Policy Driver Document for Data Accessibility and User-Friendliness in Peacebuilding</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>In July 2024, peacebuilders, activists, academics, third sector and staff from intergovernmental organisations such as the United Nations and the OSCE, came together for a policy hackathon at the Austrian Forum for Peace Conference in Burgenland near the Hungarian border.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-30384" class="post post--excerpt post-30384 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events category-open-software category-open-standards category-the-tech-we-want category-the-tech-we-want-summit"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/08/27/join-us-at-the-tech-we-want-summit-and-take-a-critical-stand-on-todays-technologies/" rel="bookmark">Join us at The Tech We Want Summit and take a critical stand on today’s technologies</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Today we are happy to announce The Tech We Want, a series of initiatives that we’ve been working on for a long time at the Open Knowledge Foundation and that has been guiding us in the way we develop software. In recent years, technology has adopted a complex, wasteful, and expensive approach to serving its […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-30180" class="post post--excerpt post-30180 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-datapkg category-frictionless-data category-open-data category-open-standards category-okfn-projects category-releases category-technical category-the-tech-we-want"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/06/26/data-package-version-2-0-release/" rel="bookmark">Data Package version 2.0 is out!</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Thanks to the generous support of NLnet, now Data Package includes features that were often requested throughout the years and improves extensibility for domain-specific implementations.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-30141" class="post post--excerpt post-30141 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-frictionless-data category-open-data category-open-data-editor category-open-development category-open-software category-open-standards category-our-work category-talks category-the-tech-we-want"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/06/25/open-data-editor-the-tormented-journey-of-an-app/" rel="bookmark">Open Data Editor: The tormented journey of an app</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Project Manager Sara Petti gives a behind-the-scenes account of the development of ODE at csv,conf,v8 – a journey full of lessons learned.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-29939" class="post post--excerpt post-29939 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-advocacy category-open-knowledge category-open-software category-open-standards category-policy category-the-tech-we-want"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/05/13/we-are-telling-g7-leaders-that-the-ai-infrastructure-must-be-open/" rel="bookmark">We are telling G7 leaders that the AI infrastructure must be open</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>We are concerned about a closed digital future where only a few elites can seize the power of AI for private purposes. Our contribution to the Think7 Italy Summit (T7) is trying to change that.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-29822" class="post post--excerpt post-29822 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-frictionless-data category-open-data category-open-data-editor category-open-software category-open-standards category-the-tech-we-want"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/04/25/open-data-editor-5-tips-for-building-data-products-that-work-for-people/" rel="bookmark">Open Data Editor: 5 tips for building data products that work for people</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>As announced in January, this year the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) team is working to develop a stable version of the Open Data Editor (ODE) application. Thanks to financial support from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, we will be able to create a no-code tool for data manipulation and publishing that is accessible to everyone, […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-29551" class="post post--excerpt post-29551 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-frictionless-data category-open-data category-open-data-editor category-open-development category-open-software category-open-standards category-the-tech-we-want"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2024/04/11/open-data-editor-what-we-learned-from-user-research/" rel="bookmark">Open Data Editor: what we learned from user research</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Join us on this learning journey and follow the details of the app’s development in this series of blogs.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-28087" class="post post--excerpt post-28087 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-open-definition category-open-standards category-our-work tag-mozfest tag-open-data-commons tag-open-definition tag-open-definition-council tag-open-standards-2"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2023/03/30/debriefing-the-open-definition-workshop-at-mozfest/" rel="bookmark">Debriefing the Open Definition workshop at MozFest</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>One week ago at MozFest, we began the process of rethinking and updating the Open Definition for today’s challenges and contexts. Here are the main takeaways.</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-28061" class="post post--excerpt post-28061 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-definition category-open-standards category-our-work tag-call-for-collaboration tag-open-data-commons tag-open-definition tag-open-definition-council tag-open-standards-2"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2023/03/16/updating-the-open-definition-to-meet-the-challenges-of-today/" rel="bookmark">Updating the Open Definition to meet the challenges of today</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>OKFN is kicking off the process of rethinking what “open” and “openness” mean beyond licences, for our complex digital infrastructures of today and tomorrow. Join us with your vision to shape a common digital future</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-24245" class="post post--excerpt post-24245 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-open-government-data category-open-standards category-policy category-research tag-eu tag-licence tag-open-data tag-policy-2 tag-psi"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2018/06/21/europes-proposed-psi-directive-a-good-baseline-for-future-open-data-policies/" rel="bookmark">Europe’s proposed PSI Directive: A good baseline for future open data policies?</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Some weeks ago, the European Commission proposed an update of the PSI Directive**. The PSI Directive regulates the reuse of public sector information (including administrative government data), and has important consequences for the development of Europe’s open data policies. Like every legislative proposal, the PSI Directive proposal is open for public feedback until July 13. […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-20954" class="post post--excerpt post-20954 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-frictionless-data category-open-data category-open-research category-open-science category-open-software category-open-standards"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2016/11/29/git-for-data-analysis-why-version-control-is-essential-collaboration-public-trust/" rel="bookmark">Git for Data Analysis – why version control is essential for collaboration and for gaining public trust.</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Openness and collaboration go hand in hand. Scientists at PNNL are working with the Frictionless Data team at Open Knowledge International to ensure collaboration on data analysis is seamless and their data integrity is maintained. I’m a computational biologist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where I work on environmental and biomedical research. In […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-20623" class="post post--excerpt post-20623 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-frictionless-data category-open-data category-open-knowledge category-open-research category-open-science category-open-standards category-small-data"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2016/10/11/international-data-week-from-big-data-to-open-data/" rel="bookmark">International Data Week: From Big Data to Open Data</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Report from International Data Week: Research needs to be reproducible, data needs to be reusable and Data Packages are here to help. International Data Week has come and gone. The theme this year was ‘From Big Data to Open Data: Mobilising the Data Revolution’. Weeks later, I am still digesting all the conversations and presentations […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-20453" class="post post--excerpt post-20453 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news category-open-spending category-open-standards"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2016/09/09/openspending-collaborates-with-mexicos-ministry-of-finance-to-standardise-and-visualise-government-budget-data/" rel="bookmark">OpenSpending collaborates with Mexico’s Ministry of Finance to standardise and visualise government budget data</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>  On September 8, 2016, Mexico became the first country to formally adopt the Open Fiscal Data Package, an international open data standard promoted by the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), in collaboration with Open Knowledge International and the World Bank, with the support of Omidyar Network. This collaboration is a pioneering step for […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-17278" class="post post--excerpt post-17278 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events category-news category-okfest category-open-access category-open-data category-open-development category-open-economics category-open-education category-open-glam category-open-government-data category-open-humanities category-okfn category-open-knowledge-network category-open-research category-open-science category-open-spending category-open-standards category-panton-fellows category-privacy category-public-domain category-training category-transparency category-working-groups"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2014/06/04/newsflash-okfestival-programme-launches/" rel="bookmark">Newsflash! OKFestival Programme Launches</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>At last, it’s here! Check out the details of the OKFestival 2014 programme – including session descriptions, times and facilitator bios here! We’re using a tool called Sched to display the programme this year and it has several great features. Firstly, it gives individual session organisers the ability to update the details on the session […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-17171" class="post post--excerpt post-17171 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-government-data category-open-knowledge-network category-open-standards category-policy"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2014/04/24/draft-open-data-policy-for-qatar/" rel="bookmark">Draft Open Data Policy for Qatar</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The following post was originally published on the blog of our Open MENA community (Middle East and North Africa). The Qatari Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies (generally referred to as ictQATAR) had launched a public consultation on its draft Open Data Policy. I thus decided to briefly present a (long overdue) outline of Qatar’s […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-16661" class="post post--excerpt post-16661 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-data category-open-definition category-open-standards"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/10/16/open-definition-in-context/" rel="bookmark">The Open Definition in context: putting open into practice</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>We’ve seen how the Open Definition can apply to data and content of many types published by many different kinds of organisation. Here we set out how the Definition relates to specific principles of openness, and to definitions and guidelines for different kinds of open data. Why we need more than a Definition The Open […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-15247" class="post post--excerpt post-15247 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-standards"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/06/24/principles-for-open-contracting/" rel="bookmark">Principles for Open Contracting</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The following guest post is by the Open Contracting Partnership, announcing the release of their Principles for Open Contracting. It is cross-posted from their website. Over the past year, the Open Contracting Partnership has facilitated a global consultation process to create a set of global principles that can serve as a guide for all of […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-14143" class="post post--excerpt post-14143 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-labs category-open-data category-open-standards category-small-data category-technical"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/04/24/frictionless-data-making-it-radically-easier-to-get-stuff-done-with-data/" rel="bookmark">Frictionless Data: making it radically easier to get stuff done with data</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Frictionless Data is now in alpha at http://data.okfn.org/ – and we’d like you to get involved. Our mission is to make it radically easier to make data used and useful – our immediate goal is make it as simple as possible to get the data you want into the tool of your choice. This isn’t […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-13294" class="post post--excerpt post-13294 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events category-open-standards tag-dfd tag-fsfe tag-icannotreadyourdocuments tag-open-standards-2"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/03/12/document-freedom-day-2013/" rel="bookmark">Document Freedom Day 2013</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>What is document freedom? Have you ever been stuck with some data that you have not been able to open because it was in a format that needs some specific kind of software to open it? The same thing happens tens of thousands of times each day. Can you imagine how much knowledge exchange doesn’t […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-12851" class="post post--excerpt post-12851 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-germany category-open-government-data category-open-standards"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/02/19/from-open-data-to-govdata-why-the-ogp-matters-in-germany/" rel="bookmark">From Open Data to GovData: why the OGP matters in Germany</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The following post is by Maria Schröder and Christian Heise from the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. It is cross-posted (and slightly shortened) from the Open Government Partnership blog. Germany’s official policy on transparency and accountability is lacking commitment and leadership. Disappointed by the political elites, the community is continuously trying to make the case for […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-12802" class="post post--excerpt post-12802 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-access category-open-content category-open-data category-open-economics category-open-science category-open-standards category-our-work category-wg-economics"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/02/15/open-research-data-handbook-sprint/" rel="bookmark">Open Research Data Handbook Sprint</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>On February 15-16 we are updating the Open Research Data Handbook to include more detail on sharing research data from scientific work, and to remix the book for different disciplines and settings. We’re doing this through an open book sprint. The sprint will happen at the Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4JE. […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-12713" class="post post--excerpt post-12713 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-definition category-okfn category-open-standards"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/02/13/protecting-the-foundations-of-open-knowledge/" rel="bookmark">Protecting the foundations of Open Knowledge</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>###The foundations of the Foundation The Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) was one of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s very first projects: drafted in 2005, 1.0 in 2006. By stipulating what Open means, the OKD has been foundational to the OKF’s work, as illustrated by this several-years-old diagram of the Open Knowledge “stack”. Knowing your foundations seems […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-12538" class="post post--excerpt post-12538 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-access category-open-economics category-open-standards"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/02/01/dutch-phd-workshop-on-research-design-open-access-and-open-data/" rel="bookmark">Dutch PhD-workshop on research design, open access and open data</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>This blog post is written by Esther Hoorn, Copyright Librarian, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. It is cross-posted from the Open Economics Blog. If Roald Dahl were still alive, he would certainly be tempted to write a book about the Dutch social psychologist Diederik Stapel. For not only did he make up the research data […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-12477" class="post post--excerpt post-12477 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-science category-open-standards category-wg-open-data-in-science"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/01/29/biomed-central-open-data-awards/" rel="bookmark">BioMed Central Open Data Awards</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The deadline for nominations in the annual BioMed Central Open Data Awards is on January 31st. Get your votes in now! It’s been a big year for open science in general, and for BioMed Central in particular. We’ve been hard at work promoting the value of data-sharing, developing standards to make it more attractive to […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-12417" class="post post--excerpt post-12417 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events category-open-access category-open-data category-open-economics category-open-standards category-our-work category-wg-economics category-workshop"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/01/28/first-open-economics-international-workshop-recap/" rel="bookmark">First Open Economics International Workshop Recap</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The first Open Economics International Workshop gathered 40 academic economists, data publishers and funders of economics research, researchers and practitioners to a two-day event at Emmanuel College in Cambridge, UK. The aim of the workshop was to build an understanding around the value of open data and open tools for the Economics profession and the […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-12198" class="post post--excerpt post-12198 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-glam category-open-standards category-public-domain"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/01/22/digital-public-library-of-america-recommends-cc0/" rel="bookmark">Digital Public Library of America recommends CC0</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The following post is cross-posted from the OpenGLAM blog. On the OpenGLAM blog we have previously written about the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), an initiative that has the goal to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all. To achieve this goal the board of directors has […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-12046" class="post post--excerpt post-12046 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events category-open-data-handbook category-open-economics category-open-science category-open-standards category-wg-development category-wg-economics category-wg-open-bibliographic-data category-wg-open-data-in-science"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/01/16/open-research-data-sprint/" rel="bookmark">Open Research Data Handbook Sprint – 15-16 February</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>On February 15-16, the Open Research Data Handbook Sprint will happen at the Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4JE. The Open Research Data Handbook aims to provide an introduction to the processes, tools and other areas that researchers need to consider to make their research data openly available. Join us for a […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-11873" class="post post--excerpt post-11873 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-france category-open-data category-open-standards"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2013/01/10/4-ideas-for-defending-the-open-data-commons/" rel="bookmark">4 Ideas for Defending the Open Data Commons</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The following post was written by Simon Chignard, author of L’Open data: Comprendre l’ouverture des données publiques. The post was originally posted on Simon’s blog following the launch of the Open Knowlege Foundation French national group, and has been translated by Samuel Goëta from OKFN France. ##Open data and the commons: an old story? There […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-11636" class="post post--excerpt post-11636 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-data category-open-economics category-open-standards category-wg-economics"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2012/12/11/research-data-management-in-economic-journals/" rel="bookmark">Research Data Management in Economic Journals</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>This blog post is written by Sven Vlaeminck | ZBW – German National Library of Economics / Leibniz Information Center for Economics Background In Economics, as in many other research disciplines, there is a continuous increase in the number of papers where authors have collected their own research data or used external datasets. However, so […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-11584" class="post post--excerpt post-11584 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-data category-open-government-data category-open-standards category-openclosed category-policy category-wg-eu-open-data category-wg-open-government-data tag-europe tag-open-data tag-open-formats tag-psi tag-regards-citoyens"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2012/12/03/lets-defend-open-formats-for-public-sector-information-in-europe/" rel="bookmark">Let’s defend Open Formats for Public Sector Information in Europe!</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Following some remarks from Richard Swetenham from the European Commission, we made a few changes relative to the trialogue process and the coming steps: the trialogue will start its meetings on 17th December and it is therefore already very useful to call on our governments to support Open Formats! When we work on building all […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-11379" class="post post--excerpt post-11379 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-content category-open-data category-open-definition category-open-standards category-openclosed category-wg-open-licensing"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2012/10/04/making-a-real-commons-creative-commons-should-drop-the-non-commercial-and-no-derivatives-licenses/" rel="bookmark">Making a Real Commons: Creative Commons should Drop the Non-Commercial and No-Derivatives Licenses</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Students for Free Culture recently published two excellent pieces about why Creative Commons should drop their Non-Commercial and No-Derivatives license variants: Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 The Future of Creative Commons: Examining defenses of the NC and ND clauses As the first post says: Over the past several years, Creative […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-11316" class="post post--excerpt post-11316 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-access category-open-data category-open-definition category-open-science category-open-standards category-policy"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2012/09/12/new-open-access-recommendations-ten-years-on-from-budapest-open-access-initiative/" rel="bookmark">New open access recommendations ten years on from Budapest Open Access Initiative</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The notion of open access – or making research freely usable by all, without cost or legal barriers – has been in the news quite a bit this year. It received significant media coverage on the back on the so-called Academic Spring, and subsequent high profile activities and announcements in the UK, the US and […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-11224" class="post post--excerpt post-11224 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-data-commons category-open-standards category-openclosed category-wg-open-licensing"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2012/08/15/cc-license-version-4-0-helping-meet-the-needs-of-open-data-publishers-and-users/" rel="bookmark">CC license version 4.0: Helping meet the needs of open data publishers and users</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Over the last few months, Creative Commons has been working on the next version of its license suite, version 4.0. The goals of version 4.0 are wide-ranging, but the overall objective is clear: update the licenses so they are considerably more robust, yet easy to understand and use, for both existing communities and new types […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-11037" class="post post--excerpt post-11037 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-data-protocols category-open-data category-open-standards"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2012/07/17/data-protocols-community-based-light-weight-data-protocols-for-collaborative-distributed-work-with-data/" rel="bookmark">Data Protocols: community-based, light-weight data protocols for collaborative, distributed work with data</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>We’re pleased to announce Data Protocols, a community-driven effort to develop simple, light-weight protocols and formats for distributed and collaborative work with data. If you’re interested in the project got check out the Knight News Challenge Data Protocols application and give our proposal the thumbs up! What’s the Idea The civic and open data community […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-10859" class="post post--excerpt post-10859 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-government-data category-open-standards category-wg-eu-open-data category-wg-open-government-data"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2012/06/29/on-the-way-to-the-new-market-of-information-in-russia/" rel="bookmark">On the way to the new market of information in Russia</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>On June 5th at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow a round table conference took place, devoted to the opening of state-collected datasets. It was convened by the Higher School of Economics (HSE) together with the Russian Office of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Open data is the new trend in the state […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-10699" class="post post--excerpt post-10699 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-ckan category-lod2 category-open-data category-open-government-data category-open-standards category-our-work category-wg-open-government-data"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2012/06/13/data-catalog-schema-and-protocol-draft-specification/" rel="bookmark">Data Catalog Schema and Protocol – Draft Specification</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Open Data is an idea that continues to gain momentum, and one of the signs of this is that the world has more and more data catalogs. This is great for many reasons but it also brings its own problem especially around interoperability and standardization — the lack of standard schema and interfaces is something […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-10621" class="post post--excerpt post-10621 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-government-data category-open-spending category-open-standards category-wg-development tag-aid tag-iati tag-open-government tag-openspending"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2012/06/05/from-xml-to-visualisations-iati/" rel="bookmark">Aid Data: From XML to Visualisations – IATI data in OpenSpending</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Are the World Bank and Department for International Development (DfID) spending money on projects in similar sectors and countries? Does all aid to Kenya go the North-East? How much aid in total did India receive last year? Until recently, it was impossible to know. But now, thanks to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), we’ve […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-10534" class="post post--excerpt post-10534 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-economics category-open-government-data category-open-spending category-open-standards category-our-work category-policy"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2012/05/30/technology-for-transparent-and-accountable-public-finance-report-published/" rel="bookmark">Technology for Transparent and Accountable Public Finance: Report Published</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>In early March, we embarked on a project to map out projects which use technology to further the aims of fiscal transparency, accountability and participation. Today, we are happy to announce the official release of the resulting report, Technology for Transparent and Accountable Public Finance. Preliminary findings were presented at last month’s GIFT meeting in […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-10056" class="post post--excerpt post-10056 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-data category-open-government-data category-open-standards category-openclosed category-wg-open-government-data"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2012/04/18/uk-open-standards-consultation/" rel="bookmark">UK Open Standards Consultation</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The following post is cross-posted from Jeni’s blog – http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/ Over the last few months, the UK Government has been running a consultation on its Open Standards policy. The outcome of this consultation is incredibly important not only for organisations and individuals who want to work with government but also because of its potential knock-on […]</p> </div> </article> <article id="post-8735" class="post post--excerpt post-8735 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-open-standards"> <header class="post-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2012/03/09/from-cms-to-dms-c-is-for-content-d-is-for-data/" rel="bookmark">From CMS to DMS: C is for Content, D is for Data</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>This is a joint blog post by Francis Irving, CEO of ScraperWiki, and Rufus Pollock, Founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation. It’s being cross-posted to both blogs. Content Management Systems, remember those? It’s 1994. You haven’t heard of the World Wide Web yet. Your brother goes to a top university. 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