1 Sep 10:38
1 Sep 18:03
Open Knowledge Conference Logo
Since the conference hasnt had a
logo, i quickly created a working logo to be used for the time being untill a
better one is made or if this one is suitable then it can be used in the long
term if you guys wish.
The logo can be found at: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OKCON_logo.svg
Its not perfect yet as I havnt ensured the
positions are all aligned as they should be, but comments on the look, feel and
general thinking on the logo would be appreciated.
Many Thanks
Joseph
Seddon
Conferences Director
Wikimedia UK
Conferences Director
Wikimedia UK
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2 Sep 01:01
Re: Making The OKF Blog Better: Featured Projects, Guest Posts, ...?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Rufus Pollock<rufus.pollock@...> wrote: > All sound good -- I guess we can also start looking through the list > of fully open items on CKAN. I wonder - is there a URL to retrieve a list of all open packages on CKAN? > If people have suggestions for projects we should cover please let us > know -- it would be particularly nice to cover smaller projects which > aren't so well-known. Indeed - and in general if anyone has anything they'd like to blog about, pop me a note! > Do we already have a tag on the blog for this or do we want a new one? > It would be useful to have this so we can easily aggregate such > information. We've now got a "Featured Projects" category. > Rather than have people email or post stuff here I was wondering if > there is a way we can harness del.icio.us, twitter, identi.ca etc for > this purpose -- i.e. people just tag stuff on there and we can then > pick it up. > > To that end what unique tag should we use? #oknews? #okstuff? #oknews sounds good! Will start using this... -- -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org
2 Sep 11:09
Re: Site down?
2009/9/1 Jordan's Lists <lists <at> twitchgamer.net>: > Can't access it -- I get a "connection was reset" error. IS it down? Don't think so. At least when I checked an hour or so after getting this message it was fine. Connection reset very occasionally happens if apache gets overloaded and is rebooted (but this is *very* rare on eu0 - the machine on which www.okfn.org, www.ckan.net, etc run). Rufus _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss <at> lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
2 Sep 12:22
Re: Site down?
Jordan - wonder when you experienced problems? Martin and I noticed the server was down/very slow yesterday late afternoon/evening so we reset it. Jonathan On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Rufus Pollock<rufus.pollock@...> wrote: > 2009/9/1 Jordan's Lists <lists@...>: >> Can't access it -- I get a "connection was reset" error. IS it down? > > Don't think so. At least when I checked an hour or so after getting > this message it was fine. > > Connection reset very occasionally happens if apache gets overloaded > and is rebooted (but this is *very* rare on eu0 - the machine on which > www.okfn.org, www.ckan.net, etc run). > > Rufus > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > okfn-discuss@... > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > -- -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org
2 Sep 21:38
doi equivalent?
Hi, I'm new to this list so this may be a faq - if so please point me in the right direction! Is there any free equivalent to the DOI naming system (http://doi.org/) ? I'm looking for something to generate unique ids for a potentially large set of publications in .epub format. I'd like something which would let them be part of a larger ecology when released (as with doi numbers) but which doesn't cost money (don't have any) and isn't a proprietary system (not certain about doi - it's certainly copyrighted and trademarked) Thanks Graham
3 Sep 09:43
Re: Site down?
Yes -- that's probably when it was. I'll take more detailed notes and send if it happens again. Thanks! ~Jordan On 2 Sep 2009, at 11:22, Jonathan Gray wrote: > Jordan - wonder when you experienced problems? Martin and I noticed > the server was down/very slow yesterday late afternoon/evening so we > reset it. > > Jonathan > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Rufus > Pollock<rufus.pollock@...> wrote: >> 2009/9/1 Jordan's Lists <lists@...>: >>> Can't access it -- I get a "connection was reset" error. IS it >>> down? >> >> Don't think so. At least when I checked an hour or so after getting >> this message it was fine. >> >> Connection reset very occasionally happens if apache gets overloaded >> and is rebooted (but this is *very* rare on eu0 - the machine on >> which >> www.okfn.org, www.ckan.net, etc run). >> >> Rufus >> >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> okfn-discuss@... >> http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >> > > > > -- > Jonathan Gray > > Community Coordinator > The Open Knowledge Foundation > http://www.okfn.org
3 Sep 10:05
Re: doi equivalent?
<N.L.Scantlebury>
2009-09-03 08:05:38 GMT
2009-09-03 08:05:38 GMT
Hi Graham You might find this useful http://www.purlz.org/ Non -----Original Message----- From: okfn-discuss-bounces@... [mailto:okfn-discuss-bounces@...] On Behalf Of graham Sent: 02 September 2009 20:38 To: okfn-discuss@... Subject: [okfn-discuss] doi equivalent? Hi, I'm new to this list so this may be a faq - if so please point me in the right direction! Is there any free equivalent to the DOI naming system (http://doi.org/) ? I'm looking for something to generate unique ids for a potentially large set of publications in .epub format. I'd like something which would let them be part of a larger ecology when released (as with doi numbers) but which doesn't cost money (don't have any) and isn't a proprietary system (not certain about doi - it's certainly copyrighted and trademarked) Thanks Graham _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss@... http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
3 Sep 15:10
Re: doi equivalent?
Hi Graham, You should consider OpenURL (a NISO standard since 2005), <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL Here's an argument that OpenURL is superior to DOI, <http://www.chemspider.com/open-chemistry-web/openurl.html>http://www.chemspider.com/open-chemistry-web/openurl.html Good luck, Peter At 03:38 PM 9/2/2009, graham wrote: >Hi, > >I'm new to this list so this may be a faq - if so please point me in the >right direction! > >Is there any free equivalent to the DOI naming system (http://doi.org/) ? > >I'm looking for something to generate unique ids for a potentially large >set of publications in .epub format. I'd like something which would let >them be part of a larger ecology when released (as with doi numbers) but >which doesn't cost money (don't have any) and isn't a proprietary system >(not certain about doi - it's certainly copyrighted and trademarked) > >Thanks >Graham > >_______________________________________________ >okfn-discuss mailing list >okfn-discuss@... >http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
3 Sep 17:15
Re: doi equivalent?
The two suggestions so far are PURLs and OpenURLs. I'm pretty sure openURLs are out. As I understand it these basically summarise the metadata associated with a publication and depend on one metadata item already being a unique id (eg an ISBN), which is just what I don't have. I'm also not sure about the interaction I'd have with link resolvers which don't recognize my site as a valid data source. PURLs sound more promising, but I still don't think they're quite right. They assume a permanent location associated with a particular publication, whereas if the ebooks I generate are free I don't care what their location is (in fact it would be better for me if others host them), though I do care if two copies in different locations are the same (and so have the same uniqueid). I think I want two things: a unique id independent of location (a URN), which would be stored in the epub metadata, and a PURL which would give a constant reference to my particular copy of the epub, for use by library link resolvers. And I still haven't found a suitable URN type. ISBNs, NBNs and ISSNs are out. So are DOIs. OIDs (http://www.oid-info.com) sound possible, but I can't work out how to find a registering authority. So far of the ones I've looked at UUIDs seem the best as not needing a central registration authority, just ironic they're a Microsoft-derived standard. How does CKAN id its entries? Or does it just reference external urls and rely on the external hosts to manage their own URNs? Graham Peter Suber wrote: > Hi Graham, > > You should consider OpenURL (a NISO standard since 2005), > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL > > Here's an argument that OpenURL is superior to DOI, > <http://www.chemspider.com/open-chemistry-web/openurl.html>http://www.chemspider.com/open-chemistry-web/openurl.html > > > Good luck, > Peter > > > At 03:38 PM 9/2/2009, graham wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to this list so this may be a faq - if so please point me in the >> right direction! >> >> Is there any free equivalent to the DOI naming system (http://doi.org/) ? >> >> I'm looking for something to generate unique ids for a potentially large >> set of publications in .epub format. I'd like something which would let >> them be part of a larger ecology when released (as with doi numbers) but >> which doesn't cost money (don't have any) and isn't a proprietary system >> (not certain about doi - it's certainly copyrighted and trademarked) >> >> Thanks >> Graham >> >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> okfn-discuss@... >> http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >
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