Open Knowledge Foundation
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Ίδρυση | 2004 |
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Ιδρυτής | Rufus Pollock Martin Keegan Jo Walsh |
Τύπος | Μη κερδοσκοπική οργάνωση |
Έδρα | Λονδίνο et Κέιμπριτζ, Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο |
Πεδία | Ανοικτά Δεδομένα |
Ιστότοπος | http://www.okfn.org/ |
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To Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) (στα Ελληνικά: Ίδρυμα Ανοικτής Γνώσης) είναι μία μη κερδοσκοπική οργάνωση που προωθεί την ανοικτή γνώση και τα ανοιχτά δεδομένα. Ιδρύθηκε στις 24 Μαΐου 2004 στο Κέμπριτζ. Το ίδρυμα δημοσίευσε το Open Knowledge Definition και έτρεξε αρκετά πρότζεκτ, όπως το CKAN, το λογισμικό που χρησιμοποιείται από πολλές κυβερνήσεις για τα δικά τους πρότζεκτ ανοικτών δεδομένων όπως το Where Does My Money Go, τρόπος για την παρακολούθηση των κυβερνητικών εξόδων. Εκτός από τα τεχνικά εργαλεία, το ίδρυμα παρέχει πληροφορίες και συμβουλές γύρω από τα ζητήματα ανοικτών δεδομένων. Για παράδειγμα, συνέβαλε στη δημιουργία του Open Database Licence (ODbL) και του Open Knowledge Definition.
Στόχοι
Οι στόχοι του Open Knowledge Foundation είναι:
- Προώθηση της ιδέας της ανοικτής γνώσης, τόσο το τι είναι, αλλά και γιατί είναι μία καλή ιδέα.
- Δημιουργία εκδηλώσεων για την ανοικτή γνώση, όπως το OKCon.
- Συνεισφορά
- Promoting the idea of open knowledge, both what it is, and why is it a good idea.
- Running open knowledge events, such as OKCon.
- Working on open knowledge projects, such as Open Economics or Open Shakespeare
- Providing infrastructure, and potentially a home, for open knowledge projects, communities and resources. For example, the KnowledgeForge service and CKAN.
- Acting at UK, European and international levels on open knowledge issues.
It was co-founded[1] by Rufus Pollock who remains a director,[2] along with Martin Keegan and Jo Walsh. The company Open Knowledge Foundation Limited was incorporated on May 20, 2004.
People
The current Open Knowledge Foundation Board is made up of:
The Open Knowledge Foundation Advisory Board includes people from the areas of open access, open data, open content, open science, data visualization and digital rights, such as:
Operations
Most of the foundation's projects are technical in nature. Its most prominent project, CKAN, is used by many of the world's governments to host open catalogues of data that their countries possess.[3]
The organisation tends to support its aims by hosting infrastructure for semi-independent projects to develop. This approach to organising was hinted as one of its earliest projects was a project management service called KnowledgeForge, which runs on the KForge platform. KnowledgeForge allows sectoral working groups to have space to manage projects related to open knowledge. More widely, the project infrastructure includes both technical and face-to-face aspects. The organisation hosts several dozen mailing lists[4] for virtual discussion, utilises IRC for real-time communications and and also hosts events.
Advocacy
OKFN is an active partner with organisations working in similar areas, such as open educational resources.[5]
OKFN has produced the Open Knowledge Definition, an attempt to clarify some of the ambiguity surrounding the terminology of openness[6] as well as the Open Software Service Definition[7]
Outside of technology, the foundation plays a role in advocating for openness broadly. This includes supporting the drafting of reports, facilitating consultation[8][9] and producing guides.[10]
Rufus Pollock, one of OKFN's founders, and current board member sits on the UK government's Public Sector Transparency Board.[11]
Technical

The foundation places a strong interest in the use of open source technologies. Each of its software projects are hosted on Bitbucket, which utilises the Mercurial version control software. Some of the projects are listed below:[12]
- CKAN, a tool that provides store for metadata. This enables governments to quickly and cheaply provide a catalogue of their data.
- Data Hub,[13] a community-run catalogue of useful sets of data on the Internet.Depending on the type of data (and its conditions of use), the Data Hub may also be able to store a copy of the data or host it in a database, and provide some basic visualisation tools.
- Open bibliography, broadly construed as efforts to catalogue and build tools for working with and publishing bibliographic resources,[14][15] with particular emphasis on those works that are in the public domain and public domain calculators. Examples include the Bibliographica,[16] Public Domain Works,[17] Open Shakespeare,[18] Open Text Book[19] and The Public Domain Review[20] projects.
- Open Economics
- Open Knowledge Forums
- Information Accessibility Initiative
- Open geodata
- Guide to open data licensing
- The annual Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon)
- "Get the Data" — a web-site for questions and answer on how to get data sets.
Events
Much of the collaboration with other related organisations occurs via events that the foundation hosts.[21] Its premier event is the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon), which has been held annually since 2007.[22] Other events have been organised within the areas of data visualisation[23] and free information network infrastructure.[24]
Annually, OKF opens the biggest event internationally for Open Data called International Open Data Hackthon.
See also
References
- ↑ Quilty-Harper, Conrad (July 2010). «The Government has unlocked the open data safe – now we must open it». London: The Telegraph. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/conradquiltyharper/100046396/the-government-has-unlocked-the-open-data-safe-now-we-must-open-it/. Ανακτήθηκε στις 27 April 2011.
- ↑ Naone, Erica (2011). «Bye-bye, Open Data?». Ανακτήθηκε στις 27 Απριλίου 2011. Unknown parameter
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ignored (βοήθεια) - ↑ data.govt.uk. «Project Info: Who is Involved with the project?». HM Government.
These include the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN): CKAN stores the catalogue behind data.gov.uk and a growing number of open data registries around the world.
- ↑ Open Knowledge Foundation. «lists.okfn.org Mailing Lists». Ανακτήθηκε στις 27 Απριλίου 2011.
- ↑ Open Educational Resources Commons. «About». Ανακτήθηκε στις 27 Απριλίου 2011.
Strategic Development and Outreach Partners ... Open Knowledge Foundation
- ↑ «Open Definition». Open Definition. 17 Ιουνίου 2011. Ανακτήθηκε στις 15 Μαΐου 2012.
- ↑ «Open Software Service Definition Launched». Ανακτήθηκε στις 25 Αυγούστου 2008.
- ↑ Open Society Foundations (2010). «Public Feedback Solicited on Access to Information and Open Government Data». Ανακτήθηκε στις 27 Απριλίου 2011.
Information Program grantee Access Info Europe, together with the Open Knowledge Foundation, are holding a public consultation on open government data and the right of access to information.
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ignored (βοήθεια) - ↑ Electronic Frontier Foundation. «Digital Rights Management: A failure in the developed world, a danger to the developing world». Ανακτήθηκε στις 27 Απριλίου 2011.
- ↑ Dietrich, Daniel. «Open Data Manual».
- ↑ data.govt.uk. «New Public Sector Transparency Board and Public Data Transparency Principles». HM Government. Ανακτήθηκε στις 27 Απριλίου 2011.
- ↑ «projects - The Open Knowledge Foundation». Ανακτήθηκε στις 14 Φεβρουαρίου 2008. Open Knowledge Foundation Projects
- ↑ datahub.io
- ↑ «Open Bibliography». JISC. Ανακτήθηκε στις 15 Μαΐου 2012.
- ↑ «Open bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data | Open Bibliographic Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation». Openbiblio.net. Ανακτήθηκε στις 15 Μαΐου 2012.
- ↑ «Open bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data». Bibliographica. 20 Μαΐου 2010. Ανακτήθηκε στις 15 Μαΐου 2012.
- ↑ «Home». Public Domain Works. Ανακτήθηκε στις 15 Μαΐου 2012.
- ↑ «Open Shakespeare». Open Shakespeare. 27 Απριλίου 2012. Ανακτήθηκε στις 15 Μαΐου 2012.
- ↑ «Open Text Book». Open Text Book. Ανακτήθηκε στις 15 Μαΐου 2012.
- ↑ «ABOUT». The Public Domain Review. Open Knowledge Foundation. Ανακτήθηκε στις 16 Απριλίου 2013.
- ↑ Holloway, Michael (2008). «PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION: OFFICIALLY BETTER WHEN SHARED». Digital Rights Group. Ανακτήθηκε στις 27 Απριλίου 2011.
And if you get excited by material that's free to access, reuse or re-distribute, then please come down to tomorrow's OKCon, for a day of seminars and workshops around the theme of 'Applications, Tools and Services'.
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ignored (βοήθεια) - ↑ Open Knowledge Foundation. «About». Ανακτήθηκε στις 27 Απριλίου 2011.
The Annual [sic] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon)
- ↑ Gehelenborg, Nils. «Workshop on Open Visualization». Nature Network. Ανακτήθηκε στις 27 Απριλίου 2011.
- ↑ Doctorow, Cory. «Free Information Infrastructure event in London next weekend». Ανακτήθηκε στις 27 Απριλίου 2011.