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OKF role in Digital Agenda for Europe?

Daniel Mietchen — 2012-05-25T13:05:28

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 & cheers,

Daniel

booktype job opening

adam — 2012-05-22T09:32:57

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.

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/

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

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

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

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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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

--
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/

Fwd: [Talk-ca] geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post

elf Pavlik — 2012-04-13T18:14:39

sounds like a nasty story =(
i don't know much about that project but maybe we could support them with spreading a word about that case?

~ elf pavlik ~

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Pour :     talk-ca-3+rWM/WnaLOn4i5uJCXUsti2O/JbrIOy< at >public.gmane.org <talk-ca-3+rWM/WnaLOn4i5uJCXUsti2O/JbrIOy< at >public.gmane.org>



Here is an outrageous story.  A tiny little website called geocoder.ca
is being sued by Canada Post.  Geocoder.ca has created a crowd-sourced
database of postal codes that is distributed for free under the Open
Database License (ODbL).  Canada Post is suing to have the data taken
down and for lost revenue.

 

Ervin Ruci is the sole operator and owner of geocoder.ca.  Ervin has
indicated that his free postal code data is used by OSM.  For more info
and to donate to geocoder.ca's defense please visit -
http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1  Please help support open data!

 

Thanks,

Bernie.

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Practical reproducible science;implications for data storage

Matthew Brett — 2012-04-11T07:15:55

Hi,

I just wanted to point out this paper in case y'all have not seen it:

http://ged.msu.edu/papers/2012-diginorm/

In particular see here for instructions on running the code yourself,
on Amazon's web services:

http://ged.msu.edu/angus/diginorm-2012/pipeline-notes.html

The short story is that the Amazon virtual machine images and public
data storage allow you to run the exact analysis used for the figures
in the paper.

Starcluster [1] and the IPython notebook and parallel machinery [2]
makes it much easier to use Amazon clusters for this purpose.

According to the author, setting this up was relatively easy:

http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/apr-12/replication-i.html

My question was - what implication does this have for sites dedicated
to data storage?  Is practical data storage going to have to live in
the same network as the cloud CPUs on which we run the analysis?  And
will the data storage have to include virtual machine images?

Thanks for any thoughts,

Matthew

[1] STAR: Cluster - http://web.mit.edu/star/cluster/
[2] IPython - http://ipython.org/

Free Software and Knowledge Initiatives inAgricultural Research

Sridhar Gutam — 2012-04-09T10:28:21

Greetings!!!

Efforts are being made for conducting sensitization and capacity building
workshop on 'Free Software and Knowledge Initiatives in Agricultural
Research for Development' <https://sites.google.com/site/fskiard/home> in
the month of May, 2012 at Hyderabad, India.

Support solicited.

Thanks & Regards
Sridhar
__________________________________________________________
Sridhar Gutam PhD, ARS, Patent Laws (NALSAR), IP & Biotech. (WIPO)
Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology)
Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture <http://www.cishlko.org>
Rehmankhera, Kakori Post
Lucknow 227107, Uttar Pradesh, India
Phone: +91-522-2841022/23/24; Fax: +91-522-2841025
Mobile:+91-9005760036/8005346136
<https://www.facebook.com/gutamsridhar>
<http://www.linkedin.com/in/sridhargutam>
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funding for open data project

Carlos Perez-Brito — 2012-04-04T21:51:48

Dear colleagues from OKF,
I would like to develop an open data initiative in Central America
as personal project and I am looking for funding, ideas ideas on where I
can get some initial support?  your help would be highly appreciated,

Thanks and hello from Central America.

Research project: "Histories of open knowledge"

Antti Halonen — 2012-04-04T13:04:31

Dear all,

I have been planning to start a research project on the history of open
data and open knowledge movements (i've only recently finished a report on
the contemporary open data policies -
http://finnish-institute.org.uk/images/stories/pdf2012/being%20open%20about%20data.pdf
).
Sam Leon from OKF encouraged me to post a rough draft proposal to this list
for feedback and possible ideas. In a nutshell the idea is to write a
communal history of open knowledge movement, that is a narrative of how
community members themselves perceive the conceptual development of open
knowledge and its significance for the society.
I think the most urgent issues are the overall feasibility of the project
and also identifying potential funding sources.
Please find the draft attached below. I'd be very glad for all the comments
and ideas and am happy to tell more.

Best wishes,
Antti

*Project proposal*



*Title*:

Histories of open knowledge



*Project coordinator: *

Antti Halonen



*Contact email: *

antti.halonen.10-hclig2XLE9Zaa/9Udqfwiw< at >public.gmane.org



*Project description: *



Purpose of the project is to write a history of the open knowledge
movement, as perceived by the open knowledge community itself. Now that
open knowledge movement has increasingly started to gain leverage and the
principles of transparency are being introduced in both governmental and
civil-society levels, it is time to compile a narrative of how open
knowledge has emerged as a global movement.



According to one widely accepted view of historiography history is
necessarily a combination of many different histories and several
recollections of the past (for instance, Kalela 2012). Therefore this
project aims at presenting a history of open knowledge like the members of
the global open knowledge community perceive it. Community members are
encouraged to take part in research circles and provide their recollections
on the past. A young historian (project coordinator) will facilitate the
project and conduct the final editing process. The outcome of the project
will be a communal narrative of the conceptual development of open
knowledge.



Methodology of the project will be based on the idea of history as a joint
communal project. The sole authority of a historian is questioned and
instead, the community itself will be given a voice on about what is
relevant and how the subject should be reviewed. Effectively, participants
will be asked to “write their own histories” What kind of issues have
influenced their own thoughts and opinions? Why have they decided to take
part in the open knowledge movement? What events have influenced their own
thought and ideas about the society and the open knowledge movement?



*Timeline*:



Phase 1:



Project coordinator conducts a literature review on the emergence of open
knowledge as a concept and drafts a methodology on how to study the history
of open knowledge in an open manner.  (May – June 2012)



Phase 2:



Open knowledge community members are asked to provide their own
recollections on how they got involved in the movement and what are their
perceptions of the open knowledge concept. (June – September 2012)



Phase 3:



During Open Knowledge Festival the project coordinator will lead a history
workshop where the community recollections and perceptions are discussed
and compiled into a draft version of the history. Before the workshop a
renowned professor of history (for instance Jorma Kalela) will give a
keynote speech on history as a joint communal project. (September 2012)



Phase 4:



Project coordinator edits the draft and conducts the final narrative. Final
work is approved by the community and published under open access
regulations. (September – October 2012)



*What is needed:*



Financial support to enable six months’ part-time work (50%, May-October
2012) of the project coordinator (€8.000)

Space for the history workshop at OKFest (two days)

Publisher for the final report

API for candidates of the Irish parliament (Dáil)

Frederik Röse — 2012-04-03T15:23:14

To whom it may concern,

Parliamentwatch.org is launching a platform in Ireland, allowing citizens to publicly pose questions to the parlament´s candidates.
Questions and answers are, after they are moderated according to our code of conduct, saved in the online archive and available to the public.

Parliamentwatch strives for more transparency in politics and stronger citizen participation.
In Germany we have already been operating a platform at www.abgeordnetenwatch.de since 2004.

As we want to allow the Irish citizens to ask questions to their members of parliament, we are in need of an API with all the members of the Dáil.
I was wondering whether an API exists that features the candidates of the Irish parliament (the Dáil) and whether anyone could provide me with such an API or knows where I could find it?


For hints or suggestions I would be very grateful.

Kind regards,
Frederik Röse


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OKFestival Call for Proposals Open!

Kat Braybrooke — 2012-03-28T17:02:35

Greetings - we are happy to inform you that OKFestival's Call for Proposals
is now officially released!

You can find the Call for Proposals (submission deadlines April 20th and
June 1st) here [1] and our blog posting with the details here [2].

This year, we're opening up more than 2/3 of the programme to you as Guest
Organisers - and I'm hoping much of that programming will come from OKF
networks and the many great projects you're all involved with. This move is
based on our belief that when an event is crowdsourced through a
co-operative combination of civil society representatives, programmers,
data wranglers, students and members of government, the most interesting
results (and relationships!) are facilitated.

Also, if any of you are in Estonia next month, we'll presenting OKFestival
at the Free City Festival [3] in Tallinn – and in the meantime, we’ll see
you online. Looking forward to working with many of you more as you become
Guest Organisers and join us in Helsinki!

Kat [apologies for imminent cross-posting!]

[1] http://okfestival.org <http://www.okfestival.org/>
[2]
http://blog.okfn.org/2012/03/28/okfestival-call-for-proposals-released-with-a-twist/
[3]
http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/2012/free-city-vaba-linn-26-27-april-2012-in-tallinn/

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Bulletin update

Laura Newman — 2012-03-26T16:24:43

Hi all,

Here's the most recent news:

*Events
* *The Open Science Hackday will take place in London and online this
Saturday 31st March. Sign up here:
http://okfnpad.org/sciencewg-hackday-mar12

*News*
* Read the Open-Science/Open-access working group's response to Hargreaves:
http://science.okfn.org/blog/
* The Open Metadata Handbook is nearly complete. Please offer final
feedback on the draft: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Metadata_Handbook
* OpenBiblio has had a busy few weeks! Check out their blog for details:
http://openbiblio.net
* OKFest Call for Submissions will be going public later this week.
* Panton Fellows have been appointed, and will be formally announced later
this week.

*Plus...
* *BMC are holding the 2011 Open Data awards for researchers who
'demonstrate leadership in the sharing, standardisation, publication, or
re-use of biomedical research data'. All articles that have been published
in BioMed Central or Chemistry Central are eligible for nomination. For
more details, see:http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/countdown_to_the_data_oscars

Have a great few weeks, and a wonderful Easter!

All the best,
Laura

open data and tangled data

adam — 2012-03-26T07:40:08

hi,

Sorry I am a bit out of context since I just joined to put this into the 
mix:
http://worrydream.com/#!/Tangle
http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/

and an implementation:
http://www.jengibre.com.ar/ecofacts/

I throw it in because I know you guys are big on open data and when I 
saw it I thought I should send it on since it has interesting 
applications and implications for open data modeling.

Probably its already widely known and discussed here so apologies if I 
just sound like a rather late echo :)


adam

OKFN Coders and Coder Dojo

Sam Leon — 2012-03-23T07:58:46

Dear Discussion List,

Please see the email below from our friends over at Coder
Dojo<http://www.coderdojo.com>
.

They're looking for coders who might want to give some free time to help
teach young kids to code *this Saturday*. It's a London event, so you'll
need to be around the capital this weekend if you want to go.

Do email Vicky on vicky-ixmnxAxiBfqgSpxsJD1C4w< at >public.gmane.org if this takes your fancy.

Sam

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Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: Victoria meet James Re: OKFN and Coder Dojo
To: Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke-wKZDxAJnXxE< at >public.gmane.org>
Cc: james.harriman-smith-wKZDxAJnXxE< at >public.gmane.org, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers-wKZDxAJnXxE< at >public.gmane.org>,
Sam Leon <sam.leon-wKZDxAJnXxE< at >public.gmane.org>, laura.newman-wKZDxAJnXxE< at >public.gmane.org, Jonathan Gray <
jonathan.gray-wKZDxAJnXxE< at >public.gmane.org>


Hi all,

This Saturday in London, Coder Dojo (www.coderdojo.com) is running a free
coding/ programming session for youths at Forward Technology, London NW1
0DU. We are looking for developers to come along as volunteers and teach
the kids some coding basics and help them create something cool like a game
or website. Age is usually 8- 12. It's a pretty open brief and we would
love to have as many mentors to teach the kids as possible. Please email
vicky-ixmnxAxiBfqgSpxsJD1C4w< at >public.gmane.org if you are free and would like to come along. We would
be delighted to welcome you to our team of volunteers! Further details at
http://zen.coderdojo.com/dojo/74.

Best regards,

Vicky

+44 (0)7780185449
< at >CoderDojoLondon
www.coderdojo.com

Libraries, Media & The Semantic Web hosted by the BBC

Adrian Stevenson — 2012-03-22T15:38:52

Hi All

I'm a newbie to this list, though I have been tracking OKFN activities for a while. I attended an excellent OKFN licensing clinic recently, and have had a few chats with Sam Leon about working with OKFN on some workshops that the JISC funded 'Discovery' initiative is proposing to run. Info on Discovery at http://discovery.ac.uk/

I had hoped to invite you to a meeting I'm speaking at, and have helped organise, along with folks from the New York Times, Schema.org, the BBC, History Pin and KONA:

'Libraries, Media & The Semantic Web hosted by the BBC' - 

http://www.meetup.com/LondonSWGroup/events/56987682/

I'm afraid that by the time I was able to get this message out, the meeting was fully booked, although there is a waiting list for anyone who's keen.  I was travelling when the announcement came out, and it booked up very quickly.

I hope this of some interest at least.

Adrian
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I-Semantics deadlines approaching (research/application papers and Linked Data Cup)

2012-03-18T15:13:30

Dear all,
Several deadlines regarding the I-Semantics 2012 are approaching and I  
would like to give a gentle reminder to all who are thinking about a  
submission that *now* would be a good time to start writing ;) Please  
note that I would not have sent this email, if the topic was not  
relevant to this list, especially if you have worked with linked and  
open data. This might also be interesting for the individual working  
groups.

The deadline for research and application papers (8 pages for full  
papers) is April 13th, 2012. Note that the abstract deadline on April  
2nd, 2012 is strict. The full call for papers can be downloaded here:  
http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/I-Semantics-2012-CfP.pdf

We would also like to draw you attention to the 5th Linked Data Cup  
(formerly the triplification challenge). Submission deadline is April  
13th, 2012 and the 4 page papers will be included in the ACM  
proceedings.
Please have a look at the evaluation criteria for the Linked Data Cup.  
We are hoping that you will find them truly challenging:  
http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/i-challenge/call-for-submissions

All the best,
Sebastian

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