Local Groups/US Group

A group of okfn fans, supporters, devs in the US are interested in forming a national group and eventually a Chapter. We are starting online discussions about what projects we want to work on, here on the wiki. And planning a regular Skype session for those interested -- currently spanning Boston, SF, and NYC. If you are interested in joining the US group, please add your name below and projects you are interested in or already working on.

Interested people
see the meetup page for ~25 so far Sj 00:25, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Coordinate systems / namespaces for knowledge

 * Publishing mappings across namespaces and types of headings

See also annotation; and making it easier to align across docs and variations

Annotation

 * Annotation markers (location?)
 * Substring matching
 * Rap Genius -- get a similar tool out there
 * Find ways to enhance and enrich annotations with related context.
 * Spatial annotation
 * AR crossover; we should get back to this
 * NB: jisc is still funding Augmented Reality (like QR and more)
 * Check What's Up and G! goggles and the like


 * Open Shakespeare

Forkable texts

 * Gitenberg.
 * something similar for 'single'-source documentation


 * LOC python module: give it a code, get the subject heading
 * Making this more useful/accessible: important! JSON, &c.

Collating data sets

 * FOSsil Bank support

A curation camp

 * Something for everyone: help them see how to hire and work with developers.
 * Connecting H libs (which are thinking about change) with others, and local data geeks.
 * See David Malan's CS50 tools for sharing and gathering project ideas (to propose as challenges for students!): Sj 00:33, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Lessons for the future "when you build a tower that high..."

Clarifying technical docs

 * Allowing people to collaboratively build technical knowledge into a searchable system that allows knowledgeable users to find "exactly what they need, presented exactly when they need it"

Beer pool

 * Comics reference: ||
 * AR reference: |
 * Git: ||
 * Jerry Springer: |

Todo

 * OKFN-Boston (via SethW)
 * Annotation hub (HUIT, HL, MindInf)


 * Curation Camp background (via CfA and harvard) ---> see the Library Lab annotation proposal.