People/jwyg

= jwyg =

jwyg is Jonathan Gray, who:


 * is Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation
 * studied Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Social Sciences at the Open University and is now studying German Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London

Interests

 * Using maps, timelines and visualisation technologies to help people understand the world around us - e.g. political institutions, international development, the environment, the economy, etc.
 * How can we use digital technologies to aid research in the humanities? E.g. the relationships between texts and authors, text-mining technologies for scholarship (e.g. automated recognition of proper names), and so on.
 * Promoting reuse of public domain works - from new editions of literary works, to radio shows/podcasts featuring obscure/interesting public domain recordings, to collages using public domain images.

OKF projects

 * Where Does My Money Go?
 * Bibliographica
 * CKAN

OKF working groups

 * Working Group on EU Open Data
 * Working Group on Open Knowledge in International Development
 * Working Group on Open Resources in the Humanities
 * Working Group on the Public Domain
 * Working Group on Open Government Data
 * Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data

Ideas

 * Data Hunt
 * Public domain request service
 * Public domain collage competition
 * New small press editions of public domain works
 * Blog/video series on the future of open data
 * Who Read Who?
 * New recordings of public domain musical works
 * Digitising public domain sound recordings