[OSGeo-Discuss] Workshop on "Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards"
## Workshop on "Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards" You are invited to attend a workshop titled [Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards][og] organized jointly by [Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla][hr], Horizon Digital Economy Research and [Puneet Kishor][pk], Creative Commons The workshop will be held in conjunction with the annual [Open Source GIS Conference][oc], June 21, 2011, Nottingham, United Kingdom, and will be held at the [School of Geography/Centre for Geospatial Science][cg] at the University of Nottingham. [og]: http://punkish.org/opengov/index.html [hr]: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/Hanif.Rahemtulla [pk]: http://punkish.org [oc]: http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html [cg]: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/index.aspx This workshop builds on the [Law and the GeoWeb][lg] workshop held recently at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, and will bring together speakers from across industry, research and academia to contribute toward some of the fundamental theoretical and technical questions emerging in the Open Data space (i.e., how to mark up and release open data; licensing models for governments and how to interface them to other open source and commercial licensing regimes; conflicts between data protection and transparency and structuring access to data by different groups). [lg]: http://punkish.org/geoweb/index.html The following speakers and topics have been confirmed: * Dr. Peter Mooney, Geotechnologies Research Group, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth (NUIM), Co. Kildare. Ireland > Producing and consuming open data * Professor David Martin, School of Geography, University of Southampton, Southampton > Mapping the UK population over time: a universe of new possibilities * Zach Beauvais, Talis > Linked data * Dr. Chris Parker (GeoVation and Community Propositions) and Ian Holt (Web Services), Ordnance Survey, Southampton > Tackling global challenges through open innovation and geographic information * Dr. Catherine Souch, Royal Geographical Society > The Open Data revolution and data literacy in higher education * Dr. Katleen Janssen, Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI), Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium > Privacy and legal implications of open data * Professor Derek McAuley, Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham > Exercising our rights over information about us ## Proceedings Proceedings of the Redmond and Nottingham workshops along with selected longer papers will be published in a special issue of the open-access [International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research][ij] published by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. [ij]: http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu ## Contact Please register for the workshop at the main [OSGIS web site][rg]. [rg]: http://osgis2011.wufoo.com/forms/third-open-source-gis-conference-osgis-2011/ For further information please contact either [Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla][eh] or [Puneet Kishor][ep]. [eh]: mailto:hanif.rahemtu...@nottingham.ac.uk [ep]: mailto:punk...@creativecommons.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
On Openness (was: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] workshop on "Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards")
Puneet, thanks for posting this. All, this is perfect timing to further our own understanding on openness. We are working on this from several ends and as we do, notice that there are many different takes on openness. There are for example noticeable differences in how the OGC uses the term openness when it comes to standards development. But they are not wrong in how they use it, just different. The same applies to OpenStreetMap who also have a broad understanding of what they mean with Openness. Even the public administration starts to develop and understanding of what openness could mean. This again proves that truth, just like time are relative. For a very short definition check this OSGeo page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/The_definition_of_Open_in_OGC,_OSGeo_and_OSM In order to better communicate which aspect of openness OSGeo promotes and how it relates to OGC activities the OGC has asked us whether we would be interested to produce a joint white paper. We discussed this at a board of directors meeting last year but never finished this because it is quite an involved topic. At the last meeting we decided that it makes sense to involve the whole community in defining what this is. To this effect we have created a Wiki page with a first shot at this White Paper. It also contains the take that the OGC has developed around openness and how this relates to us. The page is available here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:Open_Source_and_Open_Standards Please go to this page and hack it. Write whatever you think is relevant from our point of view. We should not change the OGC's definition, even if we feel that it is not complete or differs from our understanding. The idea is to allow for different takes. Diversity makes the world go round. It would be great if we could come up with a comprehensive paper that we can publish together with the OGC. It will always be a compromise but it will show that we have matured as an organization to a level where we can interact strategically. Apart from this please also feel free to maintain our own definition of Openness which has been defined here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Openness If my presentation for FOSS4G gets accepted this might also become a presentation which we can give at SOTM, FOSS4G and the Denver OGC TC Meeting. Have fun, Arnulf On 03/16/2011 04:24 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote: ## Open Government Announcing a workshop on *Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards* organized jointly by [Dr Hanif. Rahemtulla][hr], Horizon Digital Economy Research and [Puneet Kishor][pk], Science Fellow, Creative Commons, in conjunction with the annual Open Source GIS Conference, June 21, 2011, Nottingham, United Kingdom. The workshop will be held at the [School of Geography/Centre for Geospatial Science][cg]> at the University of Nottingham. [hr]: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/people/Hanif.Rahemtulla [pk]: http://punkish.org [cg]: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/index.aspx This meeting follows and builds upon the [Law and the GeoWeb][lg] workshop on intellectual property issues with geographic data in the internet era, colocated with the annual meeting of Association of American Geographers, April 11, 2011 at the campus of Microsoft Research, Seattle, Washington. [lg]: http://punkish.org/geoweb/index.html The *Open Government* workshop will bring together speakers from across industry, research and academia to contribute towards some of the fundamental theoretical and technical questions emerging in the Open Data space (i.e., how to mark up and release open data; licensing models for governments and how to interface them to other open source and commercial licensing regimes; conflicts between data protection and transparency and structuring access to data by different groups). The session will be a series of presented papers with a lively explorative session which will inform, provoke and encourage discussion. Proceedings of the Seattle and Nottingham workshops along with selected longer papers will be published in a special issue of the open-access [International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research][ij] published by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. [ij]: http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu ## Speakers Speakers reflect the broad spectrum of constituencies in the Open Data domain from across academia, research and the industrial sector. The following speakers are confirmed: * Professor David Martin, School of Geography, University of Southampton * Professor Derek McAuley, Director of Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham * Dr. Peter Mooney, Department of Computer Science, University of Maynooth * Dr. Richard Mortier, Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham * Dr. Catherine Mulligan, Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham * Mr Ian Holt, Senior Technical Product Manager, Ordnance Surve
[OSGeo-Discuss] workshop on "Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards"
## Open Government Announcing a workshop on *Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards* organized jointly by [Dr Hanif. Rahemtulla][hr], Horizon Digital Economy Research and [Puneet Kishor][pk], Science Fellow, Creative Commons, in conjunction with the annual Open Source GIS Conference, June 21, 2011, Nottingham, United Kingdom. The workshop will be held at the [School of Geography/Centre for Geospatial Science][cg]> at the University of Nottingham. [hr]: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/people/Hanif.Rahemtulla [pk]: http://punkish.org [cg]: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/index.aspx This meeting follows and builds upon the [Law and the GeoWeb][lg] workshop on intellectual property issues with geographic data in the internet era, colocated with the annual meeting of Association of American Geographers, April 11, 2011 at the campus of Microsoft Research, Seattle, Washington. [lg]: http://punkish.org/geoweb/index.html The *Open Government* workshop will bring together speakers from across industry, research and academia to contribute towards some of the fundamental theoretical and technical questions emerging in the Open Data space (i.e., how to mark up and release open data; licensing models for governments and how to interface them to other open source and commercial licensing regimes; conflicts between data protection and transparency and structuring access to data by different groups). The session will be a series of presented papers with a lively explorative session which will inform, provoke and encourage discussion. Proceedings of the Seattle and Nottingham workshops along with selected longer papers will be published in a special issue of the open-access [International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research][ij] published by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. [ij]: http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu ## Speakers Speakers reflect the broad spectrum of constituencies in the Open Data domain from across academia, research and the industrial sector. The following speakers are confirmed: * Professor David Martin, School of Geography, University of Southampton * Professor Derek McAuley, Director of Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham * Dr. Peter Mooney, Department of Computer Science, University of Maynooth * Dr. Richard Mortier, Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham * Dr. Catherine Mulligan, Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham * Mr Ian Holt, Senior Technical Product Manager, Ordnance Survey, Southampton * Dr. Chris Parker, GeoVation and Community Propositions, Ordnance Survey, Southampton ## Contact Registration for the Open Source GIS conference and workshop will commence shortly (see below for conference website). for further information please contact either [Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla][eh], Horizon Digital Economy Research at the University of Nottingham or [Puneet Kishor][ep], Science Fellow, Creative Commons. [eh]: mailto:hanif.rahemtu...@nottingham.ac.uk [ep]: mailto:punk...@creativecommons.org ## Further Reference * [OSGIS Conference][oc], University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK * [Law and the GeoWeb][lg], Microsoft Research, Seattle, USA [oc]: http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
