Listing of other organizations and individuals interested in, or working on, open knowledge issues (including those affiliated with the OKF). Please put contact details and a summary of the organization's/individual's activity.
Organizations
Affiliated
Linux Centre - http://www.gnucentar.org.yu/
- work on:
- free software, training, translation, dissemination
- open access to information and knowledge
- human rights in cyberspace: legal and political aspects
Free Culture UK - http://www.freeculture.org.uk/
Public Geodata - http://www.publicgeodata.org/
OSGeo - http://www.osgeo.org/
- Open Source Geodata work
In Contact With
Roughly in alphabetical order!
[http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/ Alexandria Archive] -- open archaeology
RufusPollock had email contact with Eric Kansa in spring 2007 and met him in person at iCommons 2007
[http://blog.co2.dgen.net/ AMEE] (Gavin Starks)
CJD Alliance - http://www.cjdalliance.net/ Contact was made with OKF in April 2007. CJD Alliance's co-founder Graham Steel acts as a Patient Advocate in several fields and is a strong proponent of Open Access/Knowledge/Data
[http://communia-project.eu/ COMMUNIA]
- COST A32 (Paolo D'Iorio)
Creative Commons (UK and elsewhere) - http://www.creativecommons.org.uk/ and http://creativecommons.org/
[http://dbpedia.org/docs/ dbpedia]
In contact with Chris Bizer (also of [http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData Linking Open Data]) and Sören Auer (also of [http://aksw.org/About AKSW])
Dropping Knowledge - http://www.droppingknowledge.org/
- In email contact with Ian Manheimer
- ePSIplus (Chris Corbin)
Free Culture US - http://www.freeculture.org/
http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ -- Free Our Data UK (a campaign set up by the Guardian)
iCommons: http://icommons.org/
- Internet Archive
- JISC (Fred Friend, Alastair Dunning)
Knowledge Politics - http://www.knowledgepolitics.org.uk/
- "think-tank dedicated to exploring the implications and possibilities of the development of an ‘information society’, and to influencing the debate over its meaning and future."
[http://www.libre.org/fkf Free Knowledge Foundation] (FKF)
Email contact on okfn discuss. JonathanGray met Kim Tucker at OpenLearn 2007.
Local Government Asset Management ( http://lgam.wikidot.com ) is a wiki set up to allow Australian Councils share Asset Management Information.
[http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/ OAK law project]
- OPSI (John
- Open Library
- Open Knowledge Society, Kerala
[http://pleiades.stoa.org/ Pleiades] -- ancient geodata
- RP: in contact Jan 2008
[http://www.public-domain.org/ Union for the Public Domain]
Science Commons - http://sciencecommons.org/
- work on:
- publishing (open access)
- licensing
- data (Neuro Commons -- launched 2005-12-12)
- John Wilbanks is on the OKF Advisory Board + direct contact with Chris Surridge (2008-05) whose is based in Cambridge UK
- work on:
- SPARC
Wikimedia - http://www.wikimedia.org/
- Wikipedia etc
WorkNets http://www.worknets.org a culture of, by and for independent thinkers, organized by Andrius Kulikauskas (ms AT ms DOT lt) of Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt
To Contact
http://www.iosa.it/ -- Open Archaeology. Should get in contact with them especially to explain CC NC is *not* open.
[http://www.ibiblio.org/index.html iBiblio] (and the Center for the Public Domain)
[http://www.dfc.org/ Digital Future Coalition]
Other
http://web.mit.edu/cet/strategy/commons.html - Bolster the commons of the mind
- OSLO group - OPEN SUSTAINABLE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- The Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities Group carries out research and development focused on increasing access to educational opportunity.
Individuals
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Chris Armbruster (Innovation study of knowledge overlay services based on open source, open content and open access, Berlin, Germany) - http://ssrn.com/author=434782 (for research articles and reports). Also Founder and Executive Director of the Research Network 1989 (EastWest flow of knowledge) - http://www.cee-socialscience.net/1989/ (homepage). For contact: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisarmbruster
Jordan Hatcher, lawyer and legal consultant conducting the study [http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007 Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations] and working on [http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/ an open data licence].