Hey Jo! It would be great if you could pop a quick post about this on the OKF blog if you have a chance!
Good to see all the progress being made on the front ... J. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Jo Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > dear all, > > A group of us in Edinburgh are organising a mini-OKCon in the Informatics > Forum, with support from IDEA Lab and EDINA. > May 13th, 3-7pm. A couple of "clinics" planned on open data licensing and > Linked Data, plenty of space for lightning talks. > Please consider contributing a talk, or forward this mail to those you know > who might be interested. Looking forward to it... > > Open Knowledge Scotland > ----------------------- > > Where: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh > When: Thursday May 13th, 3-7pm (coffee & registration from 2:30) > How much: Free > Register: http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/ > > > This event brings together interested parties from across the open knowledge > spectrum based in Scottish educational institutions, Scottish research > organisations, Scottish local and national government, and members of the > public for the purposes of teaching, learning and discussion. > > Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a wide > range of areas from governance to science, culture to technology. Opening up > access to digital content can radically increase access and reuse, improving > transparency, fostering innovation and increasing societal welfare. > > In addition to high profile initiatives such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and > the Human Genome Project, there is enormous growth among open knowledge > projects and communities at all levels. Moreover, last year, the UK > government began opening up their data on the Linked Data cloud through > data.gov.uk. > > In academia, open access to both publications and data has been gathering > momentum, and similar calls to open up learning materials have been heard in > education. This gathering flood of open data and content is the creator and > driver of massive technological change. > > During the event we will consider questions such as: What data can be made > available? Are there privacy or ethical concerns? How can we connect it > together? How can we use it to collaborate and share our work? How can > Scotland benefit from open data? Are there public implications for > entrepreneurial or ‘big business’ participation? > > In the spirit of openness and exchange we invite participants to offer > contributions on any aspect of creating, publishing or reusing open content > in accordance with http://opendefinition.org/ . > > We hope that this event provides an open forum for discussion amongst > researchers and practitioners about open knowledge in Scotland. > > Potential topics for discussion could include: > > ¨ Open educational resources and tools > > ¨ Business models for open content > > ¨ Semantic Web and Linked Data in relation to open knowledge > > ¨ Platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and curating open > knowledge > > ¨ Open Licensing, Legal Tools and the Public Domain > > ¨ Open government data and content (public sector information) > > ¨ Supporting scientific workflows with open knowledge models > > ¨ Open models for scientific innovation, funding and publication > ('open-access') > > ¨ Tools for analysing and visualizing open data > > We welcome contributions in the form of short 10 minute lightning talks, > posters or demonstrations. If you are interested please register your > attendance and optional short talk at http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/ > > We look forward to meeting with you soon. > > The Open Knowledge Scotland Team > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://blog.okfn.org http://twitter.com/jwyg http://identi.ca/jwyg _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
