Open Knowledge

This article is about the organisation Open Knowledge. For the concept, see Open knowledge.
Open Knowledge
Founded May 20, 2004 (2004-05-20)
Founder Rufus Pollock
Type Nonprofit organization
05133759[1]
Focus Open knowledge broadly, including open access, open content, open science and open data.
Location
Coordinates 52°14′08″N 0°09′15″E / 52.235435°N 0.154033°E / 52.235435; 0.154033Coordinates: 52°14′08″N 0°09′15″E / 52.235435°N 0.154033°E / 52.235435; 0.154033
Area served
 International
Key people
 Rufus Pollock
Slogan Sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata...
Website okfn.org

Open Knowledge (known as the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) until April 2014)[2] is a global non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge, including both content and data.[3] It was founded by Rufus Pollock on 24 May 2004[4] in Cambridge, UK.

Aims

Joris Pekel[5] presenting at GLAM-WIKI 2013[6]

The aims of Open Knowledge are:[1]

People

In April 2015 Pavel Richter took on the role of CEO of Open Knowledge. Pavel was formerly Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland. Pollock remains in a leadership role.[7]

The Open Knowledge Advisory Council includes people from the areas of open access, open data, open content, open science, data visualization and digital rights. In 2015, it consisted of:[8]

Network

As of 2015, Open Knowledge has 9 official chapters and 49 groups in different countries.[9]

Chapters

Local groups

Working groups

It also supports 19 working groups.

  • Lobbying Transparency
  • Open Access
  • Open Bibliography
  • Open Definition
  • Open Design & Hardware
  • Open Development
  • Open Economics
  • Open Education
  • OpenGLAM
  • Open Government Data
  • Open Humanities
  • Open Linguistics
  • Open Product Data
  • Open Science
  • OpenSpending
  • Open Sustainability
  • Open Transport (project)
  • Personal Data and Privacy
  • Public Domain

Operations

Interview to Michael Bauer at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona[10]

Many of Open Knowledge's projects are technical in nature. Its most prominent project, CKAN, is used by many of the world's governments to host open catalogues of data that their countries possess.[11]

The organisation tends to support its aims by hosting infrastructure for semi-independent projects to develop. This approach to organising was hinted as one of its earliest projects was a project management service called KnowledgeForge, which runs on the KForge platform. KnowledgeForge allows sectoral working groups to have space to manage projects related to open knowledge. More widely, the project infrastructure includes both technical and face-to-face aspects. The organisation hosts several dozen mailing lists[12] for virtual discussion, utilises IRC for real-time communications and also hosts events.

Advocacy

Open Knowledge is an active partner with organisations working in similar areas, such as open educational resources.[13]

Open Knowledge has produced the Open Knowledge Definition, an attempt to clarify some of the ambiguity surrounding the terminology of openness,[14] as well as the Open Software Service Definition.[15] It also supported the development of the Open Database License (ODbL).[16]

Outside of technology, Open Knowledge plays a role in advocating for openness broadly. This includes supporting the drafting of reports, facilitating consultation[17][18] and producing guides.[19]

Rufus Pollock, one of Open Knowledge's founders, and current board secretary sits on the UK government's Public Sector Transparency Board.[20]

Technical

OpenGLAM logo

The foundation places a strong interest in the use of open source technologies. Its software projects are hosted on GitHub, which utilises the Git version control software. Some of the projects are listed below:[21]

Events

Much of the collaboration with other related organisations occurs via events that the foundation hosts.[37] Its premier event is the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon), which has been held annually since 2007.[38] Other events have been organised within the areas of data visualisation[39] and free information network infrastructure.[40]

Annually, Open Knowledge opens the biggest event internationally for Open Data called International Open Data Hackthon.

Panton Principles and Fellowships (Open data in Science)

The Panton Principles (for Open Data in Science) in 2010 had large contributions from Open Knowledge people and in 2011 Jonathan Gray and Peter Murray-Rust successfully obtained funding from OSF for two fellowships, held by Sophie Kershaw[41] and Ross Mounce.[42] In 2013 OKF obtained sponsorship from CCIA[43] for 3 fellowships, which were awarded to Rosemarie Graves,[44] Sam Moore[45] and Peter Kraker.[46][47]

Other

Open Knowledge also supports Apps for Europe,[48] and D-CENT, a European project created to share and organise data from seven countries, which is running from October 2013 to May 2016.[49]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Open Knowledge Foundation. "About Us". Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  2. ↑ Davies, Tim (12 April 2014). "Data, information, knowledge and power – exploring Open Knowledge’s new core purpose". Tim's Blog. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Open Knowledge: About". okfn.org. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Open Knowledge Foundation launched". Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  5. ↑ GitHub Account Name jpekel (2011-06-17). "Joris Pekel | Extended Profiles | Open Knowledge Foundation". Okfn.org. Retrieved 2013-11-14.
  6. ↑ "GLAM-WIKI 2013/Schedule - Wikimedia UK". Uk.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2013-11-14.
  7. ↑ "Open Knowledge: Team". okfn.org. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "Open Knowledge: Advisory Council". okfn.org. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Open Knowledge: The Global Network". okfn.org. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "Michael Bauer: "Necessitem periodistes per posar les dades en context" - Vídeo - CCCB LAB". cccb.org. 3 June 2013.
  11. ↑ data.gov.uk. "Project Info: Who is Involved with the project?". HM Government. These include the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN): CKAN stores the catalogue behind data.gov.uk and a growing number of open data registries around the world.
  12. ↑ Open Knowledge Foundation. "lists.okfn.org Mailing Lists". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  13. ↑ Open Educational Resources Commons. "About". Retrieved 1 November 2015. Strategic Development and Outreach Partners ... Open Knowledge Foundation
  14. ↑ "Open Definition". Open Definition. 2011-06-17. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  15. ↑ "Open Software Service Definition Launched". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  16. ↑ Creative Commons. "CC Salon Berlin and openeverything focus – Feb. 26". Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  17. ↑ Open Society Foundations (September 2010). "Public Feedback Solicited on Access to Information and Open Government Data". Retrieved 1 November 2015. Information Program grantee Access Info Europe, together with the Open Knowledge Foundation, are holding a public consultation on open government data and the right of access to information.
  18. ↑ Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Digital Rights Management: A failure in the developed world, a danger to the developing world". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  19. ↑ Dietrich, Daniel. "Open Data Manual". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  20. ↑ data.govt.uk. "New Public Sector Transparency Board and Public Data Transparency Principles". HM Government. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  21. ↑ "projects - The Open Knowledge Foundation". Retrieved 1 November 2015. Open Knowledge Projects
  22. ↑ "Feature Tour | ckan - The open source data portal software". ckan.org. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  23. ↑ "datahub.io". datahub.io. 2006-06-23. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  24. ↑ "Open Bibliography". JISC. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  25. ↑ "Open bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data | Open Bibliographic Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation". Openbiblio.net. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  26. ↑ "Open bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data". Bibliographica. 2010-05-20. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  27. ↑ "Home". Public Domain Works. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  28. ↑ "Open Shakespeare". Open Shakespeare. 2012-04-27. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  29. ↑ "Open Text Book". Open Text Book. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  30. ↑ "ABOUT". The Public Domain Review. Open Knowledge Foundation. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  31. ↑ "The Open Definition - Open Definition - Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Knowledge". opendefinition.org. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  32. ↑ http://okfn.org/get-involved/working-groups/
  33. ↑ http://dm2e.eu/community-building/
  34. ↑ "Open Economics". openeconomics.net. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  35. ↑ "Open Knowledge Forums". discuss.okfn.org. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  36. ↑ "Open Geodata Community | OSGeo.org". www.osgeo.org. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  37. ↑ Holloway, Michael (March 2008). "PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION: OFFICIALLY BETTER WHEN SHARED". Digital Rights Group. Retrieved 1 November 2015. And if you get excited by material that's free to access, reuse or re-distribute, then please come down to tomorrow's OKCon, for a day of seminars and workshops around the theme of 'Applications, Tools and Services'.
  38. ↑ Open Knowledge Foundation. "About". Retrieved 1 November 2015. The Annual [sic] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon)
  39. ↑ Gehelenborg, Nils. "Workshop on Open Visualization". Nature Network. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  40. ↑ Doctorow, Cory. "Free Information Infrastructure event in London next weekend". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  41. ↑ "Sophie Kershaw | The Stilettoed Mathematician". Sophiekershaw.wordpress.com. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  42. ↑ Mounce, Ross. "CV". Ross Mounce. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  43. ↑ "ccianet.org". ccianet.org. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  44. ↑ "Rosie Graves - University of Leicester". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  45. ↑ "scholarly skywritings". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  46. ↑ "Science and the Web". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  47. ↑ "Panton Principles: Panton Fellowships". Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  48. ↑ "Apps for Europe | turning data into business". www.appsforeurope.eu. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  49. ↑ "D-CENT". dcentproject.eu. Retrieved 29 October 2015.

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