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Open Space Proposals

To propose a presentation or workshop at OKCon please add the details below or email us direct via info [at] okfn [dot] org.

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A provisional schedule is available at the open space schedule page.

Proposals

Format: Who (including email in suitably obfuscated form). Title: XXX. Additional information (This can be as short as a sentence of two or as long as a full abstract)

• Rufus Pollock (rufus dot pollock at okfn dot org)
  • Title: Producing a Dead-Tree Edition of Open Shakespeare (and other open literature)
  • With Open Shakespeare and Open Milton going strong online what are the challenges of producing a dead-tree version?
• Andrius Kulikauskas (ms AT ms DOT lt) with help from Zenonas Anusauskas for live video link with Edward Cherlin in Silicon Valley
  • Title: Open source learning materials
• Ana Ilic Lagundzin and Zdenka Mrkailo with help from Zenonas Anusauskas for live video link with Sasha Mrkailo in Sombor, Serbia
  • Title: Public Domain Fashion
• Pamela McLean
  • Title: New Patterns of Collaboration and Learning
• Graham Knight
  • Title: Open Source Hardware: DIY Solar
• Rachel Wambui Kungu
  • Title: Independent Peacemakers Working Openly
• Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton (hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
  • Title: Linking Open Knowledge in the Semantic Web

     Some things I could talk about:

• The problem of linking between repositories, and our current solution, as used at something like eprints.rkbexplorer.com
• Browsing through resources linked (in the Semantic Web) to other resources, as at www.rkbexplorer.com

       Would this fit your interests? I would also be happy to talk about feeding the system with metadata about open knowledge (which may itself be open knowledge, of course).

• Paola Di Maio, University of Strathclyde (paola.dimaio AT GMAIL)
  • Title: Open Ontology Requirements

        I gave a talk and wrote a few copyrighted briefings on this topic for private clients,
        such as this but this is definitely an open topic, and I would like to give an open talk about a few key points, and get feedback on discussions also it would be a good  chance to meet up with the OK community, at last¬

• Humphrey Southall (Humphrey dot Southall at port dot ac dot uk)
  • Title: From the Great Britain Historical GIS ... to this great big lump of everything
  • The talk will briefly describe how an Arc/Info-based GIS got turned into a geospatial ontology and ended up as A Vision of Britain through Time. This gets around 80,000 unique visitors a month and a re-launch is imminent, so this is one of the few academic "digitisation projects" which is engaging with a wide audience. I hope we can then discuss the potentials for opening our structure up to user content while keeping parts of it "authoritative".
• Worknets (?)
  • Note: WorkNets http://www.worknets.org participants are meeting in London thanks to Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt and COMMUNIA and wish to actively participate at the Open Knowledge Foundation conference! Andrius Kulikauskas (ms AT ms DOT lt)
• Hugh Barnard hugh dot barnard at [remove-this]gmail.com
  • People-owned financial systems: Where are we? Commentary on technology and possible directions
  • Partial presentation of paper submitted to the Bhuddist Economics conference in Ubon
• Adrian Walker adrian dot walker at [remove-this]gmail.com
  • A Wiki for Executable English and its Use to Reason about CO2 Emission Reduction
  • (Please place this talk early on the afternoon list if possible. Thanks.)]]
• Pete Ferne, Jiva Technology, petef@...
  • Happy To Help - a social messaging tool for informal learning
  • HTH is a tool for asking questions of a pool of subject experts and getting answers in real time. It can also be used for peer to peer learning support.
• Peter Froberg, Freemium, peter # freemium(dot)eu
  • Freemium as a business model for open. About promoting openness by showing companies they can make a profit from it.
• Adnan Hadzi, Department of Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK -- (a dot hadzi at gold dot ac dot uk)
  • Why Openness Matters: the Deptford.TV Project
  • Deptford.TV is an online media database documenting the urban change of Deptford, in South-East London. (more details)
• Andrea Rota (Xelera and Liquid Culture, a at xelera dot eu) + Yuk Hui (Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre)
  • Title: uTagIt: a free web service for spontaneous, multi-dimensional, time-bound tagging
  • this presentation will introduce the development of uTagIt, a web service which provides a completely free and open infrastructure for tagging of URI-addressable resources and media objects - it can be used as a traditional tagging service, as a audio/video annotation system, to develop media edit decision lists collaboratively, and so on, using a REST API or a Jabber (XMPP) command line interface
• Sebastian Hellmann from AKSW
  • Title: DBpedia: A crystalization point for the Web of Data
  • The presentation will focus on DBpedia, a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia. DBpedia is a multi-domain dataset in structured form and allows new ways to ask queries and create mash-ups with other data as e.g. in the LOD Cloud. If some time is left at the end, I will give some pointers to other projects like LinkedGeoData(OpenStreetMaps) or xOperator, OntoWiki, Openresearch
• Julian Todd (undemocracy.com, publicwhip.org.uk) julian AT goatchurch.org.uk
  • Title: Towards realization of the ScraperWiki (CodeWiki)
  • The CodeWiki will be a functional development environment that runs through a browser and is capable of being used to develop, maintain and run webscraping scripts. It is the answer all our problems caused by data being irretrievably embedded in webpages.
  • Visibly exposing this vital piece of the information infrastructure means it's possible to educate people about what real code is and does. Promotion of the project could be done by holding coding competitions.
• Minhaaj ur Rehman, minhaaj AT gmail DOT com
  • Flat classroom project
  • Virtual presentation: http://www.archive.org/details/Okcon09PresentationMinhaaj
• John Dalziel, john at crashposition dot c0m
  • Title: The Computus Engine: Exploring digital horology
  • An open source project exploring temporal visualisation in Actionscript and Flash.

David Bollier (onthecommons.org, bollier.org, david/at/bollier.org)

• Title: Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own [www.viralspiral.cc]
• This presentation will describe my new book, a history of the rise of free and open source software, the invention of the Creative Commons licenses, the rise of the "sharing economy" in its many guises (wikis, remix, mashup, blogosophere, social networking, etc.), and the many interconnected commons-based "viral spirals" now underway in open education, open science, open business models and direct citizenship.
• Title: "History-Making" Citizenship as a Breakthrough in Democratic Practice.
• This talk will explore how new forms of direct citizenship are empowering citizens to set national political agendas and speak in the own voices, by enabling them to bypass traditional intermediaries such as the press, political parties and centralized institutions. Although still in an early stage, this capacities of direct citizenship hold great potential for improved transparency and institutional accountability, more inclusive political processes and more responsive political agendas.

Harry Halpin (http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin)

• Title: "Opening Up Patent Data"
• This talk will explain how the world of patents works, and how data on patents is kept purposefully difficult to access and interpret. While Google Patents has made some progress in opening up patent data, there is much to be done. First, there are many sources of patents, and an exploration of British and European patents is needed. For example, individual patents themselves are not that interesting - what is more interesting is how patents are made to cover entire technology platforms. In order to understand this, we need data and API level access to patent data. Lastly, we will briefly discuss current efforts to release patent data onto the Semantic Web using the Linked Data approach.

Richard Quarrell (quarrell@tiscali.co.uk)

• Title: "Accessing, Using, Reusing Public Sector Content and Data" or "Enabling access to PSI for reuse"
• This talk is about enabling access to public sector information for reuse and will describe PSIKEY, the value of a market place for the reuse of PSI, and how to achieve this. Taking the title "Accessing, Using, Reusing Public Sector Content and Data" of the 5th Communia Workshop of the day before, this talk will describe the practical difficulties and propose some realistic solutions to overcome them. These issues need to be recognised and discussed openly, if any progress can be made in this area.