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Open Knowledge Scotland event at Inspace in Edinburgh, May 13th 2.30 - 7pm.

Held in the contemporary Inspace area at the Informatics Forum the first Open Knowledge Scotland event was organised with support from iDEAlab and EDINA at the University of Edinburgh. In the true spirit of openness and exchange participants were invited to offer contributions on any aspect of creating, publishing or reusing open content in accordance with http://opendefinition.org/  and as such the event brought together open knowledge practitioners from from across the open knowledge spectrum based in Scottish educational institutions, Scottish research organisations, Scottish local and national government, and members of the public for the purposes of teaching, learning and discussion.

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The event itself was full to capacity and took the form of ‘lightning’ talks, each 7 minutes in duration arranged into three topical groupings culminating in a clinic session where Charlotte Waelde and Andres Guadamuz of SCRIPT discussed 'Open Data Licensing: Legal Challenges.'

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Eventbrite registration page

When you have registered please do say "Hello!" on the OK Scotland Introductions page.

If you are not able to join us you should be able to view a live stream of the event on UStream and/or view the Twitter hashtag #okscotland and archived Tweets.

Welcome 2:55
In essence there will be a lot of short talks, at 5 minutes a bell will go off and the speaker has the option of asking for questions or speaking for two more minutes, after which it is the next speaker's turn.

Introduction 3:00 - 3:10

 * Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation

Open Research Practise 3:10 - 3.55

 * Charles Duncan : What is the difference between Open Knowledge and Open Education?
 * Angus Whyte : Six degrees of open working: case studies in open science.
 * Matt Ogston : Sharing Environmental Knowledge as a Regulator.
 * Ellen Collins : Researchers' use of web 2.0 resources.
 * Branwen Hide : UK researchers and data sharing: unlikely bedfellows.
 * Paola di Marco : OK Scotland: 4 Case studies & scottish linked data interest group.
 * 10 mins Q&A plus break

Open Data for Scotland 4:05 - 4.50

 * Chris Fleet : Open historical georeferenced maps and applications.
 * James Stewart and Tim Foster : Open Street Map - Scotland - state of the map.
 * Stuart Macdonald : AddressingHistory - Crowdsourcing historical data and maps.
 * Ben Plouviez : Opening up Scottish Government data. No slides
 * Michael Fourman : Digital Scotland.
 * Peter McKeague : Information provision at RCAHMS No slides
 * 10 mins Q&A plus break

Open Knowledge and Linked Data 5:00 - 5:40

 * James Stewart : Open source participation to open data.
 * Derek Mills : Getting value out of undiscovered knowlege wealth.
 * Tom Kane : Mr Benn Adventures for School Pupils and Students in Worlds of Open Knowledge.
 * Bill Roberts : Linked data for people first, machines second.
 * Kate Byrne : Text to RDF - and thence to the Web of Data.

Open Data Licensing: Legal Challenges, a Clinic 5.45 - 6.10

 * Clinic session with Charlotte Waelde and Andres Guadamuz of SCRIPT entitled 'Open Data Licensing: Legal Challenges.'

Closing remarks 6.10 - 6.15

 * Michael Fourman, iDEA Lab.

Drinks 6.15 - 7.00

 * Potentially on the roof terrace, weather permitting.

Slide Wall During breaks
There is a slide wall to one side with the option of showing 3 simultaneous slideshows / videos during the breaks and drinks. One should contribute about 5 minutes of slides optimised for display at 1024*768.
 * AQMeN - Advanced Quantitative Methods Network (Scotland)
 * Unlock (EDINA geospatial web service)
 * Bibliographica - an Open Knowledge Foundation project
 * Edinburgh Research Archive \ Repository Publications Service (University of Edinburgh)
 * Edinburgh Data Share - an open data repository for the University of Edinburgh
 * RCAHMS - Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland