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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/467 Thought this might be of interest. Tim Clark, Director of Informatics, Mass General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, is presenting a seminar at the Oxford eResearch Centre on 4th December called Data, Community and Discourse: a Framework for Science Web 3.0 . Science Web 3.0 is an emerging system of semantically linked data, integrated with the Social Web, in support of science collaboration and scientific knowledge integration. This powerful environment for capturing, organizing and sharing scientific knowledge is now beginning to be taken up in real projects in the form of Scientific Social Communities. Tim Clark will explore critical elements of a common framework for Web 3.0 in scientific research, including an ontology of scientific discourse tractable to working scientists, ontology-driven text mining, and the development of computing-linked communities of scientists, computing researchers, software engineers, philanthropies and scientific publishers. Link to event Iain Emsley 2008-11-28T11:32:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/465 Saw this interesting site on priorities for Obama's CTO: http://www.obamacto.org/ You can vote on these here: http://ideas.obamacto.org/ Including: * Open government data - http://ideas.obamacto.org/pages/general/suggestions/68532 * Require open access for publicly-funded research - http://ideas.obamacto.org/pages/general/suggestions/72264 J. Jonathan Gray 2008-11-24T20:43:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/458 circus foundation's "one click organisations" project has been shortlisted for social innovation camp. the final selection is being made by a public vote which runs until sunday. this is a great opportunity to get a prototype developed. if you've got a moment please cast a vote at http://www.sicamp.org/?page_id=300 (scroll to the bottom of the page and select "one click organisations" from the drop-down menu). one click organisations will provide a free web service to create and manage a legal structure for a social project or group. users will select from several options (eg how new members join and how formal decisions are made) and the system will do the rest. it will maintain a constitution, a register of members and manage the voting process for collective decisions. the project grew out of circus foundation's emergent democracy workshops. if you're interested in contributing please get in touch. we're currently looking for a project manager, an expert in constitutional law charlesarmstrong 2008-11-21T23:54:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/456 Open Everything Berlin will take place on Saturday 6th December. More details at: http://blog.okfn.org/2008/11/21/open-everything-berlin-saturday-6th-december-2008/ Jonathan ---- After the success of Open Everything London a few weeks ago, we're now involved in putting on Open Everything Berlin, which will take place in early December. It will be a great opportunity to meet people interested in open knowledge, open source software, and so on. Details are as follows: * When: Saturday 6th December 2008 * Where: newthinking store, Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin-Mitte (map) * Programme: http://openeverything.mixxt.de/networks/wiki/index.Programm * Registration: Attendance is free! Sign up on the mixxt network! The event will start with a handover from Open Everything Hong Kong and finish with a handover to Open Everything Madison - both of which will also take place on the 6th. In addition to talks, presentations and discussions, the event will feature the launch of Ivo Gormley's Us Now, a Cr Jonathan Gray 2008-11-21T13:39:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/455 Thanks largely to the efforts of Iain Emsley we now have an Open Milton package and an associated site: <http://www.openmilton.org/> As people will notice from e.g. the 'Why Open Shakespeare' section on the front page we haven't quite finished converting everything over but we still hope to have this ready to be launched properly by 9th December (Milton's birthday). If anyone would like to help out list of tickets for current iteration is at: <http://knowledgeforge.net/shakespeare/trac/query?milestone=0.7> We particularly need assistance preparing a timeline of Milton's life plus finishing off the the proof-editing of the Encyclopaedia Britannica entry for Shakespeare: <http://okfn.org/wiki/tmp/BritannicaShakespeare> Regards, Rufus Rufus Pollock 2008-11-20T20:03:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/454 _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss N.L.Scantlebury 2008-11-19T18:46:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/453 Final cross posting from me this evening! -----Original Message----- From: owner-dcc-associates-DNOXQ1Wj7szQzY9nttDBhA< at >public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-dcc-associates-DNOXQ1Wj7szQzY9nttDBhA< at >public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Chris Rusbridge Sent: 19 November 2008 11:50 To: dcc-associates-DNOXQ1Wj7szQzY9nttDBhA< at >public.gmane.org Subject: [dcc-associates] Research Data Management email list created At JISC's request, we have created a new list to support discussion amongst those interested in management of research data. 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I was specifically asked not to include the word "curation" in the descriptio N.L.Scantlebury 2008-11-19T18:41:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/452 _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss N.L.Scantlebury 2008-11-19T18:38:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/451 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss N.L.Scantlebury 2008-11-19T18:33:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/449 For anyone who's in Berlin, this looks like a really interesting event: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/482-Copyright-Regulation-in-Europe.html Unfortunately I'll be in London still! J. Jonathan Gray 2008-11-14T11:20:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/445 "Not satisfied with controlling the world's largest source of book information, it wants to take over all the smaller ones as well. It's now demanding that every library that uses WorldCat give the copyright to all its catalog records to OCLC. It literally is asking libraries to put an OCLC copyright notice on every book record in their catalog. It wants to own every library." http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/oclcscam Rob Myers 2008-11-13T11:42:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/444 -------- Original Message ------- Hi! We wanted to bring your attention to the National Freedom of Information Coalition's blog on all things open government, which we recently moved to our newly designed web site: http://www.nfoic.org/issues We'd be forever appreciative if you could alert your readers to the blog. If you could link to it or add it to your blogroll, that would be even better. It's a daily compilation of all the news in the world of open government.... Jonathan Gray 2008-11-13T01:38:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/443 -------- Original Message ------- Dear Open Knowledge Foundation, Greetings from Boston Review! We thought you and your blog readers might be interested in an article in the new issue of Boston Review. Richard M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and GNU developer, chastises One Laptop Per Child for backing away from its promise to run only free software in favor of a Microsoft-subsidized version of Windows. "Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco—in a world where only one company sells tobacco," he writes. "Even the OLPCs delivered with GNU/Linux will be easy to convert subsequently to Windows. It only requires a small card that is supposed to cost $7. (I expect Microsoft will hand these out to the kiddies like free samples of cigarettes.)" You can read the article here: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.6/stallman.php Please feel free to forward this piece along as you see fit. Thanks for your time and attention. Best, Katie Koch Editori Jonathan Gray 2008-11-13T00:49:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/442 Hi all, I thought this could be of interest! J. -------- Original Message ------- The gnowledge.org <http://gnowledge.org> lab of Homi Bhabha Centre (HBCSE) launched a new community portal on 31st October 2008 to make concept maps of all areas of knowledge. We are beginning with establishing dependency relations between concepts and activities. Soon we will extend the site for TypeMap, PartMap, InteractionMap, ProcessMap etc. Soon, a version of SELF Platform will be made that will automatically create structure of courses based on dependency map. The site is waiting for community contributions and suggestions at http://www.gnowledge.org/. Could you please announce this to your out reach community. Announcing and linking to http://www.gnowledge.org <http://www.gnowledge.org/> will be appreciated. Jonathan Gray 2008-11-13T00:45:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/441 A reminder that our regular IRC meet up will take place tonight from 1900 *GMT* on the #okfn channel at oftc.net! You can connect via a standard irc client or using the mibbit web client available at: <http://ur1.ca/4fh> If anyone's got anything they'd like to discuss, propose or work on, please drop in! (Very) draft agenda at: <http://okfn.org/wiki/meetings/2008-11-12> Rufus Rufus Pollock 2008-11-12T16:58:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/439 Hey Jonathan, Looks like your Where Does My Money Go? submission partly succeeded: http://www.showusabetterway.com/ 'Ideas where we will develop the idea further' http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/2008/07/where-does-my-2.html What will they do next, do you think? (And does the The Free Legal Web idea have anything to do with mySociety or the Free Our Bills campaign?) Best wishes, John. John Bywater 2008-11-10T18:33:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/438 As announced earlier this month tomorrow we're running a workshop on "Finding and Re-using Open Scientific Resources". Just like last week's workshop on Public Information this should be both informal, interesting and fun. The workshop will focus on finding and re-using open scientific resources - including public domain data, open access journal articles, and open educational materials. Anyone can come along and details are as follows: wiki page: http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenScience/Workshop when: Saturday 8th November 2008, 1100-1600 where: London Knowledge Lab 23-29 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QS. (more info on wiki page) attendance: Free but good to sign up on the wiki page (or just email me) Look forward to seeing people tomorrow. Regards, Rufus Rufus Pollock 2008-11-07T15:51:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/437 A final reminder that Open Everything London is tomorrow (6th November). Details are are at: http://blog.okfn.org/2008/10/30/open-everything-london-speakers-confirmed/ http://openeverything.wik.is/London Look forward to seeing people there! Jonathan Jonathan Gray 2008-11-05T23:57:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/436 Hi all, A quick reminder of our events in London this November, including: * Workshop on Finding and Re-using Public Information - Saturday 1st November 2008, London Knowledge Lab - http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicInformation * Open Everything London - Thursday 6th November 2008, The Roundhouse - http://openeverything.wik.is/London * Workshop on Finding and Re-using Open Scientific Resources - Saturday 8th November 2008, London Knowledge Lab - http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenScience/Workshop It would be great to see people there! If you plan to attend a workshop, please add your name to the wiki. If you plan to come to Open Everything London it might be advisable to book a ticket as there is limited space. We've just confirmed the main speakers for Open Everything: http://blog.okfn.org/2008/10/30/open-everything-london-speakers-confirmed/ Please circulate as appropriate! Warm regards, Jonathan Jonathan Gray 2008-10-30T17:37:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/435 A reminder that our weekly IRC meet up will take place tonight from 1900 *GMT* on the #okfn channel at oftc.net! You can connect via mibbit at: http://ur1.ca/4fh If anyone's got anything they'd like to discuss, propose or work on, please drop in! http://okfn.org/wiki/meetings/2008-10-29 Rufus Rufus Pollock 2008-10-29T17:48:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general/433 _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss-6A+mB+4cr9F9rwYpqGo9+w< at >public.gmane.org http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss charlesarmstrong 2008-10-28T02:25:52 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.misc.open-knowledge-foundation.general