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Jonathan Gray
- is Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation
- studied Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Social Sciences at the Open University and is now studying German Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London
- can be contacted at: <<MailTo(jonathan DOT gray AT okfn DOT org)>>
Interests
- Using maps, timelines and visualisation technologies to help people understand the world around us - e.g. political institutions, international development, the environment, the economy, etc.
- How can we use digital technologies to aid research in the humanities? E.g. the relationships between texts and authors, text-mining technologies for scholarship (e.g. automated recognition of proper names), and so on.
- Promoting reuse of public domain works - from new editions of literary works, to radio shows/podcasts featuring obscure/interesting public domain recordings, to collages using public domain images.
OKF projects
- Where Does My Money Go?
- Bibliographica
- CKAN
OKF working groups
- Working Group on EU Open Data
- Working Group on Open Knowledge in International Development
- Working Group on Open Resources in the Humanities
- Working Group on the Public Domain
- Working Group on Open Government Data
- Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
Ideas
- Data Hunt
- Public domain request service
- Public domain collage competition
- New small press editions of public domain works
- Blog/video series on the future of open data
- Who Read Who?
- New recordings of public domain musical works
- Digitising public domain sound recordings
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