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= Working Group on Open Historical Data =

Purpose

 * 1) Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open historical data.
 * 2) Identify relevant projects and practices. Promote best practices as well as legal and technical standards for making data open (such as the Open Knowledge Definition).
 * 3) Develop technologies to represent historical data using maps, timelines and other visualisation technologies.

Members

 * Working Group Coordinator: Michael Johnson, Univerisity of Edinburgh, UK
 * Jonathan Gray, University of London + Open Knowledge Foundation, UK
 * Rufus Pollock, Cambridge University + Open Knowledge Foundation, UK
 * John Dalziel, The Computus Engine, UK

Participate

 * Join the open-history mailing list. Email info [at] okfn [dot] org.

Weaving History

 * http://www.weavinghistory.org/

Related links

 * http://wiki.okfn.org/DigitalHistory
 * http://wiki.okfn.org/OpenHistory