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Rufus Pollock | 19 Nov 14:19
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Re: Open Environmental Data

Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Ben Harden (at the new Grantham Institute for Climate Change [1]) and I 
> have started putting together a few wiki pages about environmental data:
> 
>    http://www.okfn.org/wiki/OpenEnvironmentalData

This looks great.

> So far we've got a brief section on relevant law/policy [2] and 
> commented lists of datasets [3], dataset distributors [4], research

Those dataset items:

   http://www.okfn.org/wiki/OpenEnvironmentalData/Datasets

look perfect for adding to CKAN (you've already got tags notes etc).

> groups [5], and  F/OS software packages that can be used to 
> analyse/represent the data [6].
> 
> Links to datasets are going to be added to CKAN.

Aha!

> I think we're going to start writing to researchers/distributors where 
> licenses or terms of use are unclear or absent.

Great idea. One could start using specific tags on CKAN. I'm using 
license-not-specified a lot and you could probably add a tag something 
like todo-contact to list those you specifically want to contact.
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Jordan Hatcher's lists | 20 Nov 11:30

Survey on open content and the UK cultural heritage sector out

Apologies for crossposting

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With the support and funding of Eduserv, we have completed a study on  
the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector.  
The main focus of the study was on the Creative Commons and Creative  
Archive licences.
"Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK  
cultural heritage sector"

The survey report, and appendices are available from the study  
website at:

<http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007>

Thanks!

~Jordan
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Rufus Pollock | 20 Nov 13:21
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Re: Survey on open content and the UK cultural heritage sector out

Great work Jordan, and we put up a blog post last friday:

<http://blog.okfn.org/2007/11/16/eduserv-study-on-open-content-licensing-in-cultural-heritage-sector-published/>

The thing that really struck me here was actually how many cultural 
heritage organizations were thinking about, or actually implementing, 
some form of open licensing for parts of their collection.

~rufus

Jordan Hatcher's lists wrote:
> Apologies for crossposting
> 
> ____
> 
> With the support and funding of Eduserv, we have completed a study on  
> the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector.  
> The main focus of the study was on the Creative Commons and Creative  
> Archive licences.
> "Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK  
> cultural heritage sector"
> 
> The survey report, and appendices are available from the study  
> website at:
> 
> <http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> ~Jordan
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Tim Cowlishaw | 20 Nov 13:32
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Re: Survey on open content and the UK cultural heritage sector out

Hi all,

Jordan's going to be discussing this report at this evening's CC- 
Salon in London if anyones interested in attending. Details here:  
http://ccsalon-london.org.uk/?p=9

Thanks!

Tim

On 20 Nov 2007, at 12:21, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> Great work Jordan, and we put up a blog post last friday:
>
> <http://blog.okfn.org/2007/11/16/eduserv-study-on-open-content- 
> licensing-in-cultural-heritage-sector-published/>
>
> The thing that really struck me here was actually how many cultural
> heritage organizations were thinking about, or actually implementing,
> some form of open licensing for parts of their collection.
>
> ~rufus
>
> Jordan Hatcher's lists wrote:
>> Apologies for crossposting
>>
>> ____
>>
>> With the support and funding of Eduserv, we have completed a study on
>> the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector.
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Jonathan | 20 Nov 18:59

IPCC + environmental data licensing

For the record, I've just posted a blog about the IPCC and environmental
data licensing:

http://blog.okfn.org/2007/11/20/the-ipcc-data-distribution-centre-environmental-data-licensing/

Regards,

Jonathan
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Jonathan Gray | 20 Nov 02:48

IPCC + environmental data licensing

For the record, I've just posted a blog about the IPCC and environmental 
data licensing:

http://blog.okfn.org/2007/11/20/the-ipcc-data-distribution-centre-environmental-data-licensing/

Regards,

Jonathan
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Jo Walsh | 27 Nov 22:45
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value transmission / open transport

dear all,

The following is a nearly-done draft of something i mean to post on
the OKFN blog. It comes to the list because it is a bit speculative
and i would appreciate some feedback / pointers to common references
that i may be missing here, as well as is this OT for the okfn blog. 

The thrust is that an interesting 2000 report on "money transmission"
services and payment networks identifies structural problems in
collective maintenance of infrastructure for competing services, which
can be generalised to "transport" networks of many if not all kinds,
more specifically than "things 'utility-like'"

Is it possible there is a whole class of enterprises that are "natural
collectives" which have been filled by different monopolies or "small
oligopolies" in the past, but where increasingly-virtual instances of
them arise (like the payments networks, like the internet) they tend
to be nonprofit collectives run with varying degress of openness?

I have been grumbling a lot about "transport" being seen as an
application or sub-topic of "environment" but perhaps we can also see
it as, "environmental" issues tend to be applications of a collective
action problem over transport networks?

Is this like way abstract, or stating the obvious? I can't tell.
The longer version of the above:

I ran across the Cruickshank Report, a review written in 2000 of the state of
payment information systems in the UK, and enjoyed what it had to say about
"money transmission" (Think ATM networks, point-of-sale networks in shops,
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Jonathan Gray | 29 Nov 03:43

Re: more specific ideas for ok2 streams

Hey Saul, Hi Ilze, Hi all,

This all sounds fantastic!

I guess three options are:

  (a) 'Open Media' and 'Free Youth Culture' panels
  (b) a 'Culture and Media' panel
  (c) a plethora of talks and workshops, apart from the panels

I'm easy, but think we should get call for proposals out ASAP before 
Christmas season fully kicks in (partly my fault - revised version to 
follow).

Just to recap, suggested panels so far include:
  * 'Transport and Environment' (or separate 'Transport' and 
'Environment' panels, as was originally suggested)
  * 'Visualization and Analysis'
  * 'Education and Academia'

As Rufus said a few weeks ago:

"Realistically, if we allow a decent amount of time for the 'open' 
session in the afternoon (with speakers coming from the CFP) this leaves 
us with around 3 specific sessions (4 max). For example last year we had 
3 (Geodata, Media and Content and Civic Info and Science)."

It would be great to hear more people thoughts on this - come on 
lurkers! :-)
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Jonathan Gray | 29 Nov 03:45

Re: OKCon 2008

Hi,

For the record, third iteration of draft announce for next OKCon is 
inline below.

I've worked in Rufus' comments, but not adjusted to account for recent 
discussions of panels (cf. my last post, and Saul's before that).

Regards,

Jonathan

Subject: OKCon 2008: London School of Economics, 15th March 2008

# OKCon 2008 - 'Open Knowledge: Applications, Tools and Services'
# where: London School of Economics
# when: 15th March 2008
# www: <http://www.okfn.org/okcon/>
# wiki: <http://www.okfn.org/wiki/okcon2008/>

We're pleased to announce that the second Open Knowledge conference 
(OKCon) will take place in March 2008, following on from the success of 
our inaugral conference last year. 'Open knowledge' is material that 
others are free to access, reuse or re-distribute and may include 
anything from sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata.

We've seen the growth of successful open knowledge projects - from peer 
reviewed journals to community edited encyclopaedias - but what impact 
can open licensing have in education, research and commerce? Does open 
licensing have benefits for researchers? Is sharing the key to scaling?
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Saul Albert | 29 Nov 09:25
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Re: OKCon 2008

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 06:45:35PM -0800, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> For the record, third iteration of draft announce for next OKCon is 
> inline below.

Hey, Jonathan - that's brilliant. Informative, attractive, concise. Well
done!

I reckon that's ready to go.

Cheers, and thanks for all your work on this!

Best,

Saul.

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