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Founded in 2004 we #8217;re a not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge: that #8217;s any kind of information – sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata – that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed.
We organize events like OKCon, run projects like Open Shakespeare, and develop tools like CKAN and KnowledgeForge to help people create, find and share open material. See our full list of events » and projects ».
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CKAN
CKAN is a registry or catalogue system for datasets or other #8220;knowledge #8221; resources. CKAN aims to make it easy to find, share and reuse open content and data, especially in ways that are machine automatable.
Visit CKAN.net Service ndash; Visit CKAN Software Home Page
The Open Definition Site
The Open (Knowledge) Definition sets out principles to define the #8216;open #8217; in open knowledge. The term knowledge is used broadly and it includes all forms of data, content such as music, films or books as well any other types of information.
Visit the Open Definition
Open Shakespeare
Open Shakespeare provides the complete works of Shakespeare, along with textual apparatus (introduction, notes) and tools (concordance, search, annotation, word frequency, etc.) all in an open form.
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Weaving History
Create #8216;factlets #8217; — places, people, events — and string them together into #8216;threads #8217; at the click of a button. Automatically visualize the results temporally and spatially, search by any attribute, automatically import Wikipedia articles and much more #8230;
Visit Weaving History
Where Does My Money Go?
Find out where UK public finance goes with this open-source, embeddable web application. Explore the data using maps, timelines, and best of breed visualisation technologies.
Visit Where Does My Money Go?
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Latest Posts from the BlogOpen data in public private partnerships: how citizens can become true watchdogs October 29, 2010Design Meets Data, Berlin, 29th November 2010 October 27, 2010Where are the cuts in your country? October 26, 2010What people say #8230;BetweenMyths: #CKAN #CORS Check - HTTP Header Logs for #LOD http://bit.ly/9Q59Ox more CKAN #Data packages http://bit.ly/btCRGc #Linkeddata 9 hours ago
hauschke: RT @rufuspollock: Open data in public private partnerships: how citizens can become true watchdogs http://bit.ly/9ulffM #opendata #okfn 10 hours ago
rufuspollock: Open data in public private partnerships: how citizens can become true watchdogs http://bit.ly/9ulffM #opendata #okfn 11 hours ago
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RT @kevingashley On data ownership amp; giving it up: @jordanhatcher on Public Domain assertion / dedication http://bit.ly/bH98yq #jiscmrd 1 week ago
RT @wdmmg Awesome! Do check this out. RT @kamaradclimber: here is what #opendata produces : http://bit.ly/djMR2f 1 week ago
Richard Poynder interviews Jordan Hatcher http://bit.ly/aYtLce 1 week ago
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OKFN Activity AggregatorIf you care about public sector information in Europe - speak up now! October 22, 2010Ticket #740 (Get copy of harvested metadata for a given package) created October 22, 2010Ticket #739 (The system shall support retrieving a copy of the harvested metadata for a ...) created October 22, 2010
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