Map of Openness

Description

A versioned database of open projects, open initiatives and the organisations and individuals behind them. A publicly editable directory and knowledge base of information about these projects and groups. A visual interface to explore and analyse the material.

Aims

  • practical:
    • as a resource to help find out who is working in different areas
    • to help share experience and expertise
    • for funders to find out about existing projects
  • theoretical/research:
    • to understand relationships between different projects and different groups
    • to learn more about IPR regimes, sustainability and stakeholders in open projects
    • to examine public perceptions of open projects

Plan

  • start to develop an information structure/domain model
  • build a list of test cases (projects/orgs) to help refine information structure/domain model
  • build a list of use cases (users of map) to help communicate value and to refine information structure

Partners

Interested parties include:

  • Panagiota Alevizou, London School of Economics
  • Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation
  • Michael Carroll, Creative Commons
  • Juan Carlos De Martin, COMMUNIA
  • Heather Ford, iCommons
  • Jonathan Gray, The Open Knowledge Foundation
  • Jennifer Jenkins, Centre for the Study of the Public Domain
  • David J Patrick, Linuxcaffe

  • Peter Suber, SPARC and Open Access Directory

  • Mark Surman, Shuttleworth Foundation and soon of the Mozilla Foundation
  • Nathan Yergler, Creative Commons

Information structure

Basic idea could be to have lowest common demoninator of metadata + more specific metadata.

  • Organisation (research about what kinds of fields are common?)
    • type (is there a standard taxonomy for this?)
    • area of work (initially unstructured text/tags?)
    • date started
    • number of people
    • link to projects
    • link to persons
    • income
    • mission statement
    • url
    • blog/news feed url?
    • mailing list url
    • contact details
  • Project
    • link to organisations
    • link to persons
    • funding/income
    • url
    • mailing list url
    • contact details
    • project description
    • tags
  • Person
    • link to organisations
    • link to projects
    • link to other

To do list

  • look into existing work in this area
  • start list of test cases
  • start list of use cases
  • start to develop information structure

Existing work