Projects

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Contents 1 Projects guide 2 Projects 3 Active 4 Incubating 5 Retired 6 Archived 7 Incubated Projects Not Taken Forward 8 Starting a new project

Projects guide

For more information on managing a project and how the Open Knowledge Foundation can assist your project, visit the Projects Guide.

Projects

Current projects are listed at: http://okfn.org/projects/. This also includes a list of projects in which the Foundation is a partner.

Wiki pages for individual projects can be found at: http://wiki.okfn.org/Category:Project. There is also a partial list below.

Active

• Get the Data
• Open Data Manual
• DataCatalogs.org
• Data Commons
• CKAN
• Where Does My Money Go
• Open Spending
• Europe's Energy
• Open Shakespeare
• Open Textbooks
• Distributed Storage
• OED Full Text
• Data Distribution
• Is It Open Data?
• Open Theses
• Textus
• JISC Open Bibliography 2

Incubating

The projects listed here are still in early stages.

See also: http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks/query?component=incubator -- incubator component on the tasks tracker (as of 2009-11)

• /Distributed_Storage
• OedFullText
• /Data_Distribution
• /Is_It_Open_Data_Service
• /OpenTheses
• /OpenMethods

Retired

• WipoWatching -- semi-retired as 2008-02
  • watch and attend wipo
• DigitalRightsNetwork
  • LocalGroups/CambridgeGroup
• OpenGeoData - see also OKFN/geo
• PublicGeodata.org
• The Information Accessibility Initiative

Archived

• OpenKnowledgeRegistry -- open knowledge projects and groups listing as well as data releases. Also known as Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN)
  • Now http://ckan.net/
• Microfacts ( MicroFacts incubation page)
• ShakespeareKnowledgePackage
  • Part of p/Open_Shakespeare
• OpenMetadata -- open database of metadata for cultural works (books, music, films)
  • Old PublicDomainRegister - see http://www.okfn.org/fcd/wiki/PublicDomainRegister
  • Part of http://www.publicdomainworks.net/ and http://bibliographica.org/

Incubated Projects Not Taken Forward

• UniversalEditor -- Not Taken Forward
• OpenAudiobooks -- Not Taken Forward
• CommunityWifi -- Not Taken Forward
• Prior Art Registry -- Not Taken Forward
  • registry for prior art (particularly for software). Probably focused on one particular area (e.g. audio streaming to start with).
• Roman Economy Data
  • data on the roman economy
  • good because small (not that much data)
• Web app to allow editing of subversion repository files from a web interface (wiki like)
  • work was started in sciki but not taken forward

Starting a new project

Please see Proposing a project for details about how to bring a new project to OKF.