http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2562 <pre>Hi Daniel, On 25 May 2012, at 15:05, Daniel Mietchen wrote: I will be there but for reporting purpose (ePSI platform). I think so far there is direct or official involvement of the OKF as an Organisation. Correct me if I am wrong. However I think its a good question and I would like to further discuss if and how a possible involvement might look like. All best Daniel </pre> Daniel Dietrich 2012-05-25T13:23:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2561 <pre>Dear all, I am in an Open Data Week workshop ( http://www.slideshare.net/mgarrigap/presentation-of-da12data-initiative-in-the-open-data-week-nantes ) with Marc Garriga ( https://twitter.com/mgarrigap ) on a rewrite of the Digital Agenda (cf. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm ). He seeks feedback on the Data chapter therein. Is anyone from OKF involved, or will any of you attend the Digital Agenda Assembly on June 21-22? Thanks &amp; cheers, Daniel </pre> Daniel Mietchen 2012-05-25T13:05:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2560 <pre>Hi Stef It might be worth talking to the OECD people who provide iLibrary. These are stats that currently are available for export and download into xls. If these could be published as linked data it could be a very exciting prospect for students mashing related data from different tables. I went to a recent ALPSP (Association of learned and professional society publishers) event on data publishing attended by Toby Green their Head of Publishing . Might be worth an approach? http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/36/52/46060301.pdf Non Scantlebury The Open University Library Services -----Original Message----- From: stef [mailto:s&lt; at &gt;ctrlc.hu] Sent: 22 May 2012 22:59 To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Suggestions for datasets that you'd like to see available as linked data 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 -- gpg: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/stef.gpg gpg fp: F617 AC77 6E86 5830 08B8 BB96 E7A4 C6CF A84A 7140 otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss </pre> N.L.Scantlebury 2012-05-25T09:21:49 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2559 <pre>Perhaps something OKF can weigh in on? d. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fae &lt;faenwp-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Date: Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM Subject: [glam] Call for contributions to a open knowledge manifesto for Wales To: GLAM &lt;glam-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt;, WMUK-L &lt;wikimediauk-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; I have started &lt;http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge_manifesto_for_Wales&gt; 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.html * Interview on BBC World Update on iPlayer at &lt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00rzzmw&gt; &lt; at &gt;8'40'' (for the next 7 days) Cheers, Fae -- http://enwp.org/user_talk:Fae http://enwp.org/user:Fae/events Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/faetags _______________________________________________ glam mailing list glam-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam </pre> Daniel Mietchen 2012-05-23T11:26:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2558 <pre>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 2012/5/23 stef &lt;s&lt; at &gt;ctrlc.hu&gt;: _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss&lt; at &gt;lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss </pre> Christian Chiarcos 2012-05-23T03:39:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2557 <pre>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 </pre> stef 2012-05-22T21:59:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2556 <pre>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 ----------------------------- Kevin Carter ----------------------------- PHD Researcher Westminster University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Head of Research &amp; Production co-lab projects: Studio: 2b Swanfield Street, London E2-7DS Mobile: +44 [0]7970-680029: Tel: +44 [0]20 7193 0317: Web: www.co-lab.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Blog: http://landscape-portrait.blogspot.com/ Current Projects: &gt; Landscape/Portrait 2010. Info: http://www.co-lab.org/Landscape_Portrait_Kevin_Carter_2008.htm Recent Projects: &gt; ThePublic Gallery - West Bromwich 2008 Regional Voice 2008. Black Country software voice. &gt; Burnley Public Art Projects 2008. Info: http://www.co-lab.org/commissions/BurnleyPublicArtProject2008.htm Press Review: http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/casestudies/housing/burnley/description.php &gt; Remembering &amp; Forgetting 2008. Info: http://www.co-lab.org/Remembering_Forgetting_2008_Kevin_Carter.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss </pre> Kevin Carter 2012-05-22T13:52:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2555 <pre>please pass this around...: Sourcefabric is looking for a new Booktype programmer to add to our team. Booktype is the software originally developed by FLOSS Manuals called Booki. Please send your resume and cover letter to adam.hyde at sourcefabric dot org with jobs at sourcefabric dot org in cc. Details at the following URL and below. http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/about/jobs/1222/ =================== Booktype Programmer =================== Sourcefabric is currently looking for an intermediate programmer to join our team. You'll be working on Booktype, our open source book production platform and its rendering software Objavi. Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, Lulu, iBooks and almost any e-reader within minutes. You can create books on your own or with others via an easy-to-use web interface or build a community around content with social tools. Of the software, Forbes said "Booktype will make it easier for companies and people to collate, organise and edit content, and make it ready for publication." GoodEReader said it was a "unique crowd-sourced ebook authoring toolkit," while ReadWriteWeb explained it as "Wordpress for books" and The Digital Reader proclaimed it "Inkling Habitat for the rest of us." Booktype works with a renderer known as Objavi for producing book formatted PDF, EPUB, ODT, templated HTML and MOBI and other formats. This position will focus on Objavi development but the applicant is expected to also work on Booktype. We offer you the opportunity to... * Work on open source software. * Build an application that make the world a better place. * Work with a friendly and enthusiastic team. * Here's what we're looking for from you... * You are passionate about E-book production. * You have a good knowledge of print production document requirements. * You have a bachelors or masters degree in computer science. * You have been growing your skills continuously through your career. * You are a team player and have a strong work ethic. You get along with others easily. * You don't mind working with users on mailing lists to help them figure out their issues. * You are excited about open source software and about changing the world. * Technical skills You primarily need to be a good software developer and understand electronic book formats and PDF documents. The following skills are what will be needed for this job: * Python - Intermediate/advanced level * C++ - Intermediate * QT * PDF document structure * EPUB * wkhtmltopdf * Webkit * HTML * CSS * Ubuntu Linux Skills that would assist this application greatly include experience with: * Ebook formats other than PDF and EPUB * Online print on demand services * Ghostscript Please provide CV, code samples, screenshots, references, and your proposed salary. You may be based anywhere and work remotely. In the interview you will be asked to program small snippets of code on the fly. Please send your resume and cover letter to adam.hyde at sourcefabric dot org with jobs at sourcefabric dot org in cc. </pre> adam 2012-05-22T09:32:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2554 <pre>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 | Kat Braybrooke | Community Coordinator | Local Chapters and OKFestival | Open Knowledge Foundation | London | OKFN.org &lt;http://okfn.org/&gt; | Twitter &lt; at &gt;kat_braybrooke&lt;http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke&gt; On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:40 AM, kevin carter &lt;info-N+a22lGP340dnm+yROfE0A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss </pre> Kat Braybrooke 2012-05-21T12:54:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2553 <pre>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 perfect way to document progress and it has some scientific benefits also, see e.g. first publication in the OKCon 2011 proceedings: http:///ceur/-ws.org/Vol-739 All the best, Sebastian On 05/18/2012 03:03 PM, Darwin Peltan wrote: </pre> Sebastian Hellmann 2012-05-20T09:16:49 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2552 <pre>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/ </pre> Darwin Peltan 2012-05-18T13:03:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2551 <pre>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 &lt;kat.braybrooke-wKZDxAJnXxE&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt;wrote: </pre> kevin carter 2012-05-17T08:40:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2550 <pre>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 | Kat Braybrooke | Community Coordinator | Local Chapters and OKFestival | Open Knowledge Foundation | London | OKFN.org &lt;http://okfn.org/&gt; | Twitter &lt; at &gt;kat_braybrooke&lt;http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke&gt; _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss </pre> Kat Braybrooke 2012-05-16T16:43:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2549 <pre>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 | Kat Braybrooke | Community Coordinator | Local Chapters and OKFestival | Open Knowledge Foundation | London | OKFN.org &lt;http://okfn.org/&gt; | Twitter &lt; at &gt;kat_braybrooke&lt;http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke&gt; _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss </pre> Kat Braybrooke 2012-05-14T13:53:39 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2548 <pre>I can't open that site. Am I the only one having this problem? Regards On Thursday, May 10, 2012, David Hirst wrote: </pre> Patricio Molina 2012-05-13T04:01:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2546 <pre>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 </pre> David Hirst 2012-05-10T16:54:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2545 <pre>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.org - Public outreach   http://e-democracy.org/inclusion - Dry project info, grant details   http://e-democracy.org/se - Example Minneapolis forum with about 1,000 members or 20%+ of households Part of the three year grant also includes lesson sharing. We are planning future webinars and exploring e-training options for 2013. While we will host neighbors forums based on volunteer capacity in communities beyond the 17 we currently serve (US, UK, and NZ currently), we see sharing lessons for independent adaptation as key to our mission. Our "free" option for peer to peer knowledge sharing that is open now is the Locals Online community of practice. I encourage you to join us if you either host a local online group, blog, social net, etc. or if you'd like to start one and have access to 300+ of your peers.    http://e-democracy.org/locals We also host the global Digital Inclusion Network online community which is related:   http://e-democracy.org/di We look forward to your input and questions on the report. Sincerely, Steven Clift Founder and Executive Director, E-Democracy.org </pre> Steven Clift 2012-05-09T13:09:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2544 <pre>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 </pre> Laura Newman 2012-05-08T11:44:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2543 <pre>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 | Kat Braybrooke | Community Coordinator | Global Chapters and OKFestival | Open Knowledge Foundation | London | OKFN.org &lt;http://okfn.org/&gt; | Twitter &lt; at &gt;kat_braybrooke&lt;http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke&gt; On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Haq, Salman &lt;Salman.Haq-3faZrbwzjXmpwFb5G8XvHQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss </pre> Kat Braybrooke 2012-05-01T10:10:21 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2542 <pre>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 _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss </pre> Haq, Salman 2012-05-01T03:11:03 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/2541 <pre> Perfect! That was just what I'd gone off to search for! &lt; at &gt;Melanie: thanks for being so quick to the email. Rufus </pre> Rufus Pollock 2012-04-29T18:12:51 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general