Category Archives: Open Data

Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide

By Fred | Published: November 6, 2011

From: TED

Posted in Open Data | Leave a comment

Release of DataCatalogs.org to map open data around the world

By Fred | Published: July 1, 2011

The following post is from Jonathan Gray, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. We’re very pleased to announce an alpha version of datacatalogs.org, a website to help keep track of open data catalogues from around the world. The project is being launched to coincide with our annual conference, OKCon 2011. You can see the [...]

Posted in Open Data | Leave a comment

Open Data in Science

By Fred | Published: May 5, 2011

By Peter Murray-Rust Abstract: Open Data (OD) is an emerging term in the process of defining how scientific data may be published and re-used without price or permission barriers. Scientists generally see published data as belonging to the scientific community, but many publishers claim copyright over data and will not allow its re-use without permission. [...]

Also posted in science | Leave a comment

Open Data

By Fred | Published: April 22, 2011

What is open government data? What is it good for? Find out more by watching the #opendata film. #opendata from Open Knowledge Foundation on Vimeo. A short film about #opendata from the Open Knowledge Foundation. For more information, please see: opengovernmentdata.org. Open Government Data Film okfn

Posted in Open Data | Leave a comment