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Fwd: [glam] Call for contributions to a openknowledge manifesto for Wales

Daniel Mietchen — 2012-05-23T11:26:20

Perhaps something OKF can weigh in on?
d.

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From: Fae <faenwp-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org>
Date: Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM
Subject: [glam] Call for contributions to a open knowledge manifesto for Wales
To: GLAM <glam-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r< at >public.gmane.org>, WMUK-L <wikimediauk-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r< at >public.gmane.org>

I have started <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge_manifesto_for_Wales>
and would appreciate some thought and expansion. With our current
contacts in Wales, we are in a position to lobby the Welsh Assembly
Government to adopt firm open knowledge policies for future heritage
funding criteria. Having a Wales-specific document in our back pocket
supported by our community would be incredibly helpful and may avoid
future Welsh heritage projects being unnecessarily locked down with
license restrictions.

* Blog post about Monmouthpedia day -
http://faenwp.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/monmouthpedia-case-study-of-open.h

Re: Suggestions for datasets that you'd like to see available as linked data

Christian Chiarcos — 2012-05-23T03:39:05

Hi Darwin,

one data set may be the Europarl corpus, i.e., a linguistically
annotated version of the EU documents, distributed under an open
license, with word- and sentence-level alignment and 1 mio tokens for
most EU languages (original corpous: http://www.statmt.org/europarl/,
annotated version: http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/).

The difference to ParlTrac data are the linguistic annotations (so,
it's really a huge chunk of structured data, not just plain text plus
meta data), that the Europarl data sets are heavily used in
linguistics and NLP, e.g., in machine translation, and that they
actually represent a "classical" resource in a number of ways. Having
these as Linked Data would promote Linked Data in linguistics and NLP
substantially. I have already worked out most aspects of converting
the English-French language pair plus its annotations to RDF, if
you're interested in cooperating on these efforts, applying them to
other languages, and hosting the data afterwards, please let me know.

Best,
Christian

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Re: Suggestions for datasets that you'd like to see available as linked data

stef — 2012-05-22T21:59:26

hey,

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:03:04PM +0100, Darwin Peltan wrote:

i don't know if i want to seem the suggested data below as linked data, but
i'm certainly interested in experimenting with it. ;)

you might want to have a look at the parltrack European parliament data:
http://parltrack.euwiki.org/dumps - schema is here:
http://parltrack.euwiki.org/dumps/schema.html
also there's a json api for all objects.

also you might want to have a look at some other data we liberated:
http://data.liberit.hu/

cheers,s

Ontology Site

Kevin Carter — 2012-05-22T13:52:35

Hello there,

I have just created a vocabulary as part of my PHD, the focus of which  
is a definition of community art practice. Due to my inexperience i  
was unsure about where to host it - obviously the Data Hub, but are  
there any other hostings options. And once
hosted, are there some useful methods for integrating files which  
reference the ontology ? Any help greatly appreciated.

cheers

kevin

Vocabulary is currently hosted here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16463134/LOD/cultural_project.owl
and a description of artwork Landscape-Portrait which makes use of the  
Vocabulary:
http://thedatahub.org/en/dataset/landscape-portrait


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booktype job opening

adam — 2012-05-22T09:32:57

please pass this around...:

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Re: OKFestival Topic Streams of 2012 and Last Callfor Proposals

Kat Braybrooke — 2012-05-21T12:54:16

Hello Kevin,

I think that your topic would fit quite well into two different Topic
Streams, actually - either the one on Open Design, Hardware + Making or the
one on Open Visualisation - it's really up to you to decide which one fits
best. Both will have designers and artists of different kinds involved.

If I can do more to help, or if you'd like me to introduce you to the Guest
Programme Planners for these topics so you can talk to them further,
definitely let me know :)

Hope you're well!

Kat

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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:40 AM, kevin carter <info-N+a22lGP340dnm+yROfE0A< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

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Re: Suggestions for datasets that you'd like to see available as linked data

Sebastian Hellmann — 2012-05-20T09:16:49

Dear Darwin,
please have a look at our work in the Working Group on Open Data in 
Linguistics (OWLG).
Until now we have produced:
- Several joint publications  - 
http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/linguistics/publications
- Resources: http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/
including a list of over 100 potential candidates for triplification
and a list of related literature: 
http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/linguistics/Bibliography
- An image of our envisioned LLOD cloud: 
http://linguistics.okfn.org/resources/llod/
- A guide how to add new Bubbles: 
http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/linguistics/llod#How_to_contribute
Currently, we are working on the triplification of about 6 to 10 data 
sets. Furthermore, we are trying to get funding to boost the process.
Please feel free to use any of the material for the deliverable.


Furthermore two additions:
- Best practices produced by the LATC project: 
http://latc-project.eu/best-practices/
- OKCon 2012 should  have a special call for progress reports of the 
individual working groups. It is a

Suggestions for datasets that you'd like to seeavailable as linked data

Darwin Peltan — 2012-05-18T13:03:04

Hi,

As part of the LOD2 project[1] we are looking to transform several datasets
to RDF.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for particular datasets
(that are already open) that you would like to see available as RDF. These
datasets should be from within the EU region.

Many thanks,

Darwin

[1] http://lod2.eu/

Re: OKFestival Topic Streams of 2012 and Last Callfor Proposals

kevin carter — 2012-05-17T08:40:01

Kat,

cheers for this  -  i have to say i think it is a shame not to have a
stream on artists creating and working with open data, i obviously think
its really important, the cultural heritage stream is, I am guessing is
more about accessibility to existing archives, whereas the initial proposal
I submitted (http://okfestival.okfnpad.org/helsinki?) constituted a
critical approach to  open data, including its ideology, production,
dissemination and the demography of its users - can't really see how this
fits with any of the stream though ?

Be interested on your thoughts,

Cheers

Kevin

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke-wKZDxAJnXxE< at >public.gmane.org>wrote:

OKFestival Topic Streams of 2012 and Last Call forProposals

Kat Braybrooke — 2012-05-16T16:43:31

Hello OKFN folk,

A quick note from the OKFestival Core Organising Team. This week, we are
happy to announce the 13 Topic Streams for 2012, all organised by Guest
Programme Planning teams from around the world, and our 2nd (and last!)
Call for Proposals.

Now is the time to submit your ideas to share with a truly global community
in Finland this September - and I believe many of you working within open
data and open knowledge communities will be inspired by this year's topics
of focus. The deadline is June 1st, so be sure to get your ideas in by then.

Blog post with all details, including a public-domain Slideshare
presentation that explains OKFestival 2012 in 14 slides, can be found here:
http://bit.ly/2ndCallAnnouncement

Looking forward to seeing many of you in Helsinki this fall!

Kat

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Manchester: Open Knowledge Drinks Meetup thisThursday

Kat Braybrooke — 2012-05-14T13:53:39

Hello OKFN folk,

In case any of you are in Manchester this week, either as residents or as
participants of the 2012 Future Everything festival, we're holding an
informal meetup over drinks at Briton's Protection around 7pm this Thursday
and would love to see your faces there.

As usual at OKFN meetups, we'll probably be talking about open knowledge
and sharing some of our coolest tools, and you'll be able to meet some of
our community members who are in town from places as disparate
as Cambridge, London, Scotland and Finland. Most importantly, though, we
hope to learn more from Mancunians themselves about the local open data
initiatives happening in Manchester right now. This is our first hangout in
the area, so it's a good opportunity for us to say hello and meet each
other in-person!

For details and to let us know you're coming, go to the Meetup link here:
http://ow.ly/aTpW9

Looking forward to meeting many of you on Thursday!

Kat

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Farm Subsidies

Patricio Molina — 2012-05-13T04:01:32

I can't open that site. Am I the only one having this problem?

Regards

On Thursday, May 10, 2012, David Hirst wrote:

Farm Subsidies

David Hirst — 2012-05-10T16:54:36

An inspiring example of the value and virtue of data transparency. See
http://www.farmsubsidy.org/ The short film  is worth watching.
David

David Hirst
Mobile:  +44 7831 405443

Inclusive Social Media for Civic Engagement Evaluation Report, May 16 Webinar, New Knight Grant and Locals Online Community

Steven Clift — 2012-05-09T13:09:36

Greetings,

I wanted to let you know we've published our 60 page evaluation report
on inclusive online community engagement in lower income, highly
diverse, high immigrant neighborhoods. The Inclusive Social Media
pilot project was funded by the Ford Foundation.

Read the executive summary and full report here:

  http://blog.e-democracy.org/posts/1420

RSVP for an online event/teleconference on May 16 for a Q and A discussion here:

  http://inclusivesocialmedia.eventbrite.com

Also, we've just launched a "take it to scale" project in St. Paul
with major funding from the Knight Foundation! Our goal is to
_inclusively_ engage 10,000 residents ~daily across a network of
online neighbors forums. By inclusion we mean forums that reflect the
local racial and ethnic diversity in each of the 16 neighborhood
forums we host with local volunteers. Reaching lower income residents
is important as well. St. Paul is 44% people of color. It is all about
creating _bridges_ among diverse neighbors.

  http://beneighbors.

The Open Knowledge Foundation is recruiting!

Laura Newman — 2012-05-08T11:44:54

Hi all,

As announced on our blog today, the Open Knowledge Foundation are currently
recruiting for a *Data Wrangler* and a *Data Visualisation Developer*.

Full details of both positions can be found here:
http://blog.okfn.org/2012/05/08/were-recruiting/

Please do circulate this information through any appropriate channels and
to anyone you think may be interested. Any questions, just drop me a line!

Kind regards,
Laura

Re: Open Data in Business

Kat Braybrooke — 2012-05-01T10:10:21

Hello Salman,

Regarding your query, I'm CC'ing Juho Lindman from Helsinki, a professor at
the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Along with several
colleagues, Juho is co-ordinating a topic stream at our upcoming Open
Knowledge Festival [1] this September on 'Research on Open Data in
Business' and has written extensively about the connections between open
data, business and Open Source movements in his work. I have a feeling he
may be a good contact to speak to in this case :)

Kat

[1] http://okfestival.org

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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Haq, Salman <Salman.Haq-3faZrbwzjXmpwFb5G8XvHQ< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

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Open Data in Business

Haq, Salman — 2012-05-01T03:11:03

Anybody doing research on "open data in business"? If so, please get in touch with me off-list. I'd like to get up to speed on the state of the art.

Thanks,
Salman
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Re: Componentization of data - Literature?

Rufus Pollock — 2012-04-29T18:12:51

Perfect! That was just what I'd gone off to search for!

< at >Melanie: thanks for being so quick to the email.

Rufus

Re: Componentization of data - Literature?

Stefano Costa — 2012-04-29T17:49:42

Il 29/04/2012 19:41, Rufus Pollock ha scritto:

Yes, I can see the deep irony. At the same time, the rotting of web 
resources is an awful reality. I was reviewing a paper I had written 
only a few years ago, and half of the websites I cited were only 
available through archive.org. The more Javascript becomes pervasive, 
the more we will loose that resource too I'm afraid.

Thanks,
steko

Re: Componentization of data - Literature?

Rufus Pollock — 2012-04-29T17:41:00

Hmmm. I think it did end up somewhere more formal but need to check --
of course it is an irony that one needs a "proper" publication to get
cited in academic work (blog posts don't really count ;-) )


+1 for BibSoup ...

Rufus

Componentization of data - Literature?

Stefano Costa — 2012-04-27T10:11:09

Dear Rufus,
I am writing a paper about open data and archaeology, and I would like to cite
the writings you and others at OKFN have done about componentization and open
data. Is there any academic article I can cite, instead of the web page below?

http://blog.okfn.org/writings/componentization-and-open-data/

And on a more generic level, it would be nice to have a single place to find
academic references to published works (Bibsoup?).

Thanks, ciao
steko

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Stefano Costa

Coordinator, Working Group on Open Data in Archaeology
http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/archaeology
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org · http://opendefinition.org/