As part of the COMMUNIA Association (http://www.communia-association.org/) – presentation on Friday – Maarten Brinkerink is chairing a Working Group on Galleries, Libraries, Museums and Archives (GLAM).
The Association’s mission is to educate about, advocate for, offer expertise and research about the public domain in the digital age within society and with policy-makers.
The COMMUNIA GLAM WG is a continuation of the former Working Group 3 from the EU funded COMMUNIA project (http://communia-project.eu/WG3/) and looks at the digital public domain from the perspective of the cultural heritage sector.
For anyone interested in participating, please meet Maarten at the get together on Thursday for an (informal) meetup and possible dinner (at own cost) to further discuss possibilities to collaborate.
OKCon will be buzzing with open knowledge and open data enthusiasts and is an excellent opportunity to comes together, discuss the future of open knowledge and to things. We have put together Information you might need in our FAQs.
This year we have put together a great schedule with many knowledgeable speakers. Richard Stallman, Michel Bauwens, Brewster Kahle, Nigel Shadbolt and many many more… See the full line up of OKCon Speakers here.
From Open Data Technology to Data Driven Journalism, from Open Science to Open Education, from Open Research to the free culture Movement. We are delighted to announce the release of the OKCon 2011 programme: See the full programme line up here.
On June 27th and June 28th, as part of the Pre-OKCon 2011 events we are inviting You (yes: you!) to a Screen Scraping Day with ScraperWiki! We are delighted to have Julian Todd in Berlin who will chair the Workshop.
Is your data spread over the web? In different formats? Messy? Then come to the ScraperWiki workshop to find out how to make your data work for you. Bring data you want to dig.
We will focus on Berlin Local Public Sector Information and other available Data. Participants will be led to take available public sector data, convert it to an open, structured format, and publish the result on the Web so that others can build on their work (Just as our friends did with the Big Clean).
It`s a one-day workshop dedicated to improving the quality of the data produced by the public sector bodies. Its aim is to transform unstructured data (e.g., HTML pages) that can be found on the websites of public institutions into richer, structured data. Such data can processed automatically with a greater efficiency, can be fed directly into data analysis and information visualisation tools to discover new insights, provide a source for a newspaper article or a report, or power a new application.
Shouldn’t all the publicly accessible data be also legally and technically re-usable?
The German government is starting to move towards open government data, but the change will take time.
* What kind of data my city or local government has?
* How screen scrapers are programmed, is it difficult?
* Is it legal to make a screen scraper and republish the data, how to avoid juridical problems?
The Twitter hash-tag for the workshop is #okcon2011
OKCon2011 is glad to announce that registration has now opened for the pre-OKCon workshops. More details can be found below.
Pre-OKCon2011 CKAN Workshop
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 from 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM (GMT+0100)
A chance to get hands-on with the technical side of working with CKAN. In each session, a core CKAN developer will talk through the aspect, giving a live demo. Subjects will cover installing CKAN, through customising its theme and forms and go on to extending it in several ways. We welcome participants bringing a laptop and having a go with the examples provided, or work on your own stuff, whilst drawing on the support of CKAN developers.
Workshop leaders: James Gardner, David Read
Sessions will cover:
using the API
installing a CKAN instance
theming CKAN
introduction to the architecture
form customisation
writing extensions
CKAN core code sprint (participants pairing up with core devs)
To register for the workshop, please use the event’s eventbrite page
Getting Involved with OpenSpending
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 from 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM (GMT+0100)
The workshop will deliver in-depth working sessions on the features of OpenSpending. We will work with EU spending data, modelling, visualizing and exploring interesting features of the data. The workshop is aimed at journalists, researchers, developers and anyone else who’s interested in public spending!
Workshop leader: Friedrich Lindenberg
Working sessions will include:
Financial data types, sources & acquisition, refinement
Visualization, analysis and exploration of data
Contextualising the data: story telling and analysis
To register for the workshop, please use the event’s eventbrite page.
For any queries regarding the workshops please contact: daniel [dot] dietrich [at] okfn [dot] org
Although the list of keynote speakers and presentations is not set in granite yet, it is crystallizing and the names are already carved on a wooden tablet. We are so exited that we just had to give a sneak preview of this amazing list (alphabetically):
Please note that submission is still open until May 1st. You can either submit a presentation or workshop proposal or submit a (5-10 page) paper to the Academic Track. Details can be found on the Call for Participation page.
Hope to see you all on 30th June & 1st July, 2011 in Berlin
