Working Groups/odol/buttons

= People to Contact re. Open Definition and the Web Buttons =

This section is for communications to organisations who make available material that is open in accordance with the Open (Knowledge) Definition (OD) - i.e. free to use, reuse and redistribute - to see if they: (a) know about the it and (b) might be interested in displaying one of the Open Knowledge or Open Data web buttons.

There are some template letters available on http://www.opendefinition.org/resources

To contact

 * http://pleiades.stoa.org/ -- ancient geodata
 * DONE by RP (wrote but as yet no update)
 * List of chemistry databases: http://depth-first.com/articles/2007/05/07/free-chemistry-databases-on-the-web-creating-a-comprehensive-guide
 * first might want to look at Murray-Rust's post: Repositories or Lists of Open Molecules
 * Open Context
 * Locationary
 * DBLP
 * Wikipedia
 * Mutopia -- contacted by RP in early 2007 and need to refollow up
 * PLoS

Worth going through ckan.net. See also the dataset listings on the Linking Open Data dataset page and MIT's Simile project RDF data collection.

Awaiting response

 * Appropedia
 * Jonathan in touch with Chris on 2008-08-09
 * Citizendium
 * Jonathan in touch with Larry on 2008-08-09
 * FHSST
 * who: Jonathan
 * initial e-mail: 2007-08-29
 * Wordnet
 * who: Jonathan
 * initial e-mail: 2007-08-29
 * follow up 2008-03-18
 * Alt Law
 * who: Jonathan
 * initial e-mail: 2007-08-29
 * response 2007-08-30: will bring it up at next meeting
 * follow up 2007-09-01
 * The 2000 U.S. Census: 1 Billion RDF Triples
 * who: Jonathan
 * initial e-mail: 2007-08-29
 * response 2007-08-30: added to govtrack, and will add to census
 * follow-up 2007-09-01
 * Wikipedia3
 * who: Jonathan
 * date: 2007-08-30
 * Open Street Map
 * who: Jonathan
 * date: 2007-08-30
 * initial e-mail
 * response 2007-09-02: already have CC button
 * follow up 2007-09-02
 * Sound Transit
 * who: Jonathan
 * contacted 2007-07-04
 * as yet no response
 * follow up 2007-09-09
 * Music Brainz
 * who: Jonathan
 * contacted 2007-07-04
 * as yet no response
 * follow up 2007-09-09
 * follow up 2008-03-28
 * Biomed Central
 * who: Jonathan
 * initial e-mail 2007-07-04.
 * response 2007-07-05: say they do not reciprocate links
 * follow-up 2007-07-06
 * response 2007-07-09: passed message on to marketing department, they will contact us
 * follow up 2007-09-09
 * Connexions
 * who: Jonathan
 * initial e-mail: 2007-07-04
 * response 2007-07-04: forwarded message on to executive team
 * follow up 2007-09-09
 * Freedict
 * who: Jonathan
 * contacted 2007-07-14
 * as yet no response
 * follow up 2007-09-09
 * Choral Domain Public Library
 * who: Jonathan
 * contacted 2007-07-20
 * as yet no response
 * follow up 2007-09-09
 * follow up 2008-03-28

Button displayed

 * Open Dictionary
 * Jonathan in contact 2008-08-07
 * buttons diplayed 2008-08-09
 * dbtune
 * who: Jonathan
 * 2007-09-10: Yves wrote saying he had added the open knowledge button to the dbtune page
 * Quotations Book
 * who: Jonathan
 * initial e-mail: 2007-08-29
 * response 2007-08-31: have added open content button to disclaimer page
 * AMEE
 * who: Jonathan
 * contacted 2007-08-24
 * response 2007-08-24: open knowledge button displayed on blog and wiki
 * dbpedia
 * who: Jonathan
 * contacted 2007-07-14
 * response 2007-07-14: say they will display OK button
 * response 2007-07-18: open knowledge button displayed
 * npemaps and their post-code data: http://www.npemap.org.uk/data/
 * http://www.ckan.net/package/read/npemap

Button not displayed

 * Geonames
 * who: Jonathan
 * contacted 2007-07-04
 * response 2007-07-06: no mention of buttons
 * follow up 2007-07-06
 * response 2007-07-07: prefer not to have too many buttons as too confusing for user
 * follow up 2007-07-29