From Open Knowledge Foundation

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

• CKAN - for open knowledge projects + packages
• 'Open' category on P2P Foundation wiki
• Diagram from Heather Ford
• Mapping Open page on OpenEverything wiki
• Open Access Directory
• Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations