“In terms of speed and the breadth of material now accessible to anyone in the world, this is really revolutionary,” says audio curator Greg Budney, describing a major milestone just achieved by the Macaulay Library archive at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. All archived analog recordings in the collection, going back to 1929, have now been digitized and can be heard at www.MacaulayLibrary.org
Title: The Rise and Fall of an Online Project: Is Bureaucracy Killing Efficiency in Open Knowledge Production? Authors: Nicolas Jullien (LUSSI-iSchool, ICI-M@rsouin, Télécom Bretagne), Kevin Crowst...
(this is a copy of the post I originally published on my own blog, with a CC BY-ND license. The original version, with updates, other comments etc.. is here) Almost ten years ago, I wrote about Free Software’s surprising sympathy with Catholic doctrine, noting that, albeit certain statements sound “as if they could have been written by …
During the “Open Knowledge: Potentials of Digital Publishing in the Academic World” conference, the Global Young Faculty III working group spoke with Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA/NY University) on April 27, 2015 about the future of digital scholarly publication, peer review, and the Media Commons platform.
In October 2013, ahead of the annual Open Government Partnership (OGP) summit in London, Open Knowledge launched the Open Data Index, the first major assessment of the state of open government data in the world. The Index ranked 70 countries according to the availability and accessibility of data in ten key categories.
Almost ten years ago, I wrote about Free Software's surprising sympathy with Catholic doctrine, noting that, albeit certain statements sound "as if they could
For the last decade, we have been pioneers and leaders in the open data and open knowledge movement. We wrote the original definition of open data in 2005, we’ve helped unlock thousands of datasets. And we’ve built tools like CKAN, that powers dozens of open data portals, like data.gov in the US and data.gov.uk in the UK. We’ve created a network of individuals and organizations in more than 30 countries, who are all working to make information open, because they want to drive insight and change.
The combination of innovative technology and new business models underlie the most exciting developments coming out of start-ups and large organizations, and the innovators creating these disruptions have influence that extends into the global...
« This briefing paper presents an overview of the international repository landscape. The paper has been produced by COAR on behalf of the Aligning Repository Networks Committee, a group of senior representatives from repository networks around the world. While principally intended for the Global Research Council (GRC), the paper has also been written with a broader audience in mind.
"There are many areas where we can expect open data to be of value, and where examples of how it has been used already exist. There are also many different groups of people and organisations who can benefit from the availability of open data, including government itself. At the same time it is impossible to predict precisely how and where value will be created in the future. The nature of innovation is that developments often comes from unlikely places."
Addis Ababa University Libraries in collaboration with Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) have conducted a full day workshop on “Open research data” on 21, July 2015. The workshop gathered participants Researchers, Librarians, ICT professionals from Addis Ababa University and Consortium of Ethiopian Academic and research libraries. Zanele Mathe of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology Library, and Matthew Buys, the ORCID Regional Director: Africa & Middle East, both from South Africa, were among the invited speakers. There were also speakers from AAU who are all members of Open Knowledge Ethiopia.
Digital impressions of the "Open Knowledge? Potentials of Digital Publishing in the Academic World" Conference at the University of Duisburg-Essen, 27 April 2015. Speakers: Dr. Thomas Ernst, Prof. Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Markus Neuschäfer and Dr. Thomas Stäcker.
This briefing paper, Promoting Open Knowledge and Open Science – Report on the current state of Repositories, presents an overview of the international repository landscape as of May 2015.
Yarra room, Melbourne Town Hall 90-120 Swanston Street Melbourne, AU
40 open enthusiasts Attending
What's on:
This week we'll be introducing potential GovHack participants to the owners and custodians of the data that will be available for use in projects. Each owner or custodian will give a brief overview of the data they're making available, and after the presentations are done, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the ow...
What's on: This week we'll be introducing potential GovHack participants to the owners and custodians of the data that will be available for use in projects. Each owner or custodian will giv
[image] Hi, I'm opening this thread to discuss the experimentations around mapping resources with open knowledge currently ongoing at Mouans Sartoux through the Inventaire project.
I used this presentation slide during the "Half Day Seminar on Open Standards" which was organized by Open Knowledge Nepal on the occasion of Document Freedom …
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