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[okfn-announce] Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No. 3 Thu Sep 20 12:38:45 BST 2007

Welcome to the third Open Knowledge Foundation newsletter. Scroll below for information about:


 * an Open Service Definition
 * KForge v0.13
 * a new advisory board member

AN OPEN SERVICE DEFINITION

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Following extensive discussions in the last couple of months on the okfn-discuss mailing list, a first draft of an `Open Service Definition‘ is now available.

The definition has been kept simple - and builds on the Open Knowledge Definition and definitions of open source software.

Further notes and comments are available on the definition's web page, which is world editable to allow contributions and amendments from the community!

Open Service Definition 

KFORGE V.0.13

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After another six months of work we’ve released a new version of the KForge software. KForge/KnowledgeForge is one the OKF’s main activities with the KForge software being used to run the KnowledgeForge service.

Over two and half years after work first started the project is now fairly mature with a growing number of projects hosted on KnowledgeForge as well as a substantial number of ‘outside’ users. Given the stability of the codebase and the service we’ll be looking to go “1.0″ in the near future.

The 0.13 release of KForge provides several new features and bugfixes including support for installing KForge on a single virtual host.

KForge 

A NEW ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER

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We are pleased to welcome Dr. Sören Auer onto our advisory board. He leads the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web at Universität Leipzig. His research interests are semantic technologies and knowledge representation aspects of Open Knowledge environments.

Sören is founder of the open-source, adaptive knowledge engineering framework OntoWiki, founding member of the DBpedia project and chair of the first Social Semantic Web conference.

Sören Auer  OKF Advisory Board page  DBpedia 

FURTHER INFORMATION

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If you would like to know more about what we are up to, please take a look at our active projects page.

http://www.okfn.org/projects/

If you are interested in participating in any of the OKF's projects, please see our participate page, or join the OKF discuss list.

http://www.okfn.org/participate/ http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss

For further news and comments, see our blog:

http://blog.okfn.org