From Open Knowledge Foundation

1st Meetup

Details

• When: Wednesday 30th April, 19:00-21:00
• Where: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QS.

Agenda

• Brief introductions and descriptions of work/interest
• What is Open Knowledge? - Jonathan Gray
• Towards Text Analysis and Literary Mapping - Iain Emsley

Publicity

• Upcoming
• The Register
• London Knowledge Lab

Notes

The following are notes that were drafted on the projector throughout discussion:

• project/event ideas
  • use cases or ideas for re-using closed data (and/or open data?)
  • evidence about how we can best promote open knowledge?
• what could you do if x was open? (cf. us project - what could you do with a million books)
• workshops
  • open licensing
  • visualisation
  • text analysis
• cultural heritage
• digital methods
• social aspects of open knowledge projects?
  • advocacy
  • barriers/problems?
• toolkit for data providers
  • video with different examples
  • different domains showing best practices
• open knowledge projects
  • libraries
    • opening times (bottom up? like rail tuck)
    • where collections are (bibliographic data?)
• economics of open knowledge?
  • commercial viability of open content?
  • business models
  • funding models
• psi re-use
  • awards for opening up psi?
  • awards for exemplary open knowledge projects?