The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open knowledge in all its forms. It is a leader in this field nationally and internationally.
Talis, the UK market leader in providing academic and public library solutions, and LibLime, the leader in open solutions for libraries, are pleased to announce a partnership to make available over five million bibliographic records to the library community on the ‡biblios.net platform.
The Talis Connected Commons scheme is intended to directly support the publishing and reuse of Linked Data in the public domain by removing the costs associated with those activities.
DISC-UK (Data Information Specialists Committee - United Kingdom) is a forum for data professionals working in UK Higher Education who specialise in supporting their institution's staff and students in the use of numeric and geo-spatial data
The Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies service enables both humans and machines to programmatically access authority data at the Library of Congress via URIs.
The Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) sets out principles to define the 'open' 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 type of information.
Today's announcement by the Open Knowledge Foundation of the release of version 1.0 of the Open Database License (ODbL) will create resentment in both professions- information technologists need to understand some of its complications, and lawyers will need to understand some technological limits of the license. In this post, I will try to articulate what some of the hard bits are.
We believe that dedicating data to the public domain is the best way to ensure that data is universally reusable and remixable. When data is public domain it means that it can be reused automatically without needing to check terms and conditions or track the source of every statement to provide attribution. These kinds of things act as friction to reuse, wasting energy that could be better spent creating inspiring things.
Dewey.info is an experimental space for linked DDC data. The initial data set available is a
linked data version of the DDC Summaries in nine languages. The intention of the dewey.info prototype
is to be a platform for Dewey data on the Web.
Data Incubator is focussed on creating and publishing Linked Data, particularly where that data is converted from pre-existing sources. Its approach is to organise people around popular datasets to create mappings to RDF, write conversion code and publish the resulting data. The goal of each of these projects is to use the skill and experience of the community to develop the conversions so the original data provider can very simply adapt the work and emit the linked data themselves.
M. de Cock Buning, A. Ringnalda, and T. van der Linden. (July 2009)This legal guide was produced for SURFdirect, SURF’s digital rights Expertise Community for higher education, by the Centre for Intellectual Property Law (CIER).
This publication is published under Creative Commons Licence Attribution 3.0 Netherlands..
A. Pohl, and F. Ostrowski. Semantic Web & Linked Data. Elemente zukünftiger Informationsinfrastrukturen, volume 14 of Tagungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis (DGI-Tagungen), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis, Frankfurt am Main, (August 2010)