Handbook/Recommended Reading

From Open Knowledge Foundation

Reading

General

• We Think - Charles Leadbeater (first three chapters and animation on it available here)
• The Power of Open - Creative Commons
• The Open Data Manual
• Digitize Me, Visualise Me, Search Me, collection including works on open knowledge from Living Books
• An Introduction to Openness - Rufus Pollock
• 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - Hans Rosling

The Economics of Open Knowledge

• The Value of the Public Domain, by Rufus Pollock
• Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm - Yochai Benkler

Open Government

• The Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks
• UK Open Government Data Commitments Spreadsheet

Open Culture

• New Renaissance Report - Elisabeth Niggemann, Maurice Lévy, Jacques De Decker
• Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig

Open Science

• Panton Principles Discussions: Interview Series on Open Data in Science

Open Knowledge and the Semantic Web

• Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web
• The Meaning and Future of the Semantic Web - Nova Spivack