Map of Openness

= Map of Openness =

Description
A versioned database of open projects, open initiatives and the organisations and individuals behind them. A publicly editable directory and knowledge base of information about these projects and groups. A visual interface to explore and analyse the material.

Aims

 * practical:
 * as a resource to help find out who is working in different areas
 * to help share experience and expertise
 * for funders to find out about existing projects
 * theoretical/research:
 * to understand relationships between different projects and different groups
 * to learn more about IPR regimes, sustainability and stakeholders in open projects
 * to examine public perceptions of open projects

Plan

 * start to develop an information structure/domain model
 * build a list of test cases (projects/orgs) to help refine information structure/domain model
 * build a list of use cases (users of map) to help communicate value and to refine information structure

Partners
Interested parties include:


 * Panagiota Alevizou, London School of Economics
 * Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation
 * Michael Carroll, Creative Commons
 * Juan Carlos De Martin, COMMUNIA
 * Heather Ford, iCommons
 * Jonathan Gray, The Open Knowledge Foundation
 * Jennifer Jenkins, Centre for the Study of the Public Domain
 * David J Patrick, Linuxcaffe
 * Peter Suber, SPARC and Open Access Directory
 * Mark Surman, Shuttleworth Foundation and soon of the Mozilla Foundation
 * Nathan Yergler, Creative Commons

Information structure
Basic idea could be to have lowest common demoninator of metadata + more specific metadata.


 * Organisation (research about what kinds of fields are common?)
 * type (is there a standard taxonomy for this?)
 * area of work (initially unstructured text/tags?)
 * date started
 * number of people
 * link to projects
 * link to persons
 * income
 * mission statement
 * url
 * blog/news feed url?
 * mailing list url
 * contact details
 * Project
 * link to organisations
 * link to persons
 * funding/income
 * url
 * mailing list url
 * contact details
 * project description
 * tags
 * Person
 * link to organisations
 * link to projects
 * link to other

To do list

 * look into existing work in this area
 * start list of test cases
 * start list of use cases
 * start to develop information structure

Existing work

 * CKAN - for open knowledge projects + packages
 * 'Open' category on P2P Foundation wiki
 * Diagram from Heather Ford
 * Mapping Open page on OpenEverything wiki
 * Open Access Directory
 * Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations