Research

= Research =

This page is intended to give an overview of the Open Knowledge Foundation's research activities and publications - whether big or small.

TableOfContents

General Intro to Open Knowledge Issues

 * The Open Knowledge Trail

Economic

 * The Value of the Public Domain (published 2006, IPPR)- "This paper calls for a re-orientation of innovation and information policy. In our current paradigm, monopoly rights, in the form of intellectual property, displace all else from our thinking on this subject making access a peripheral issue. According to Pollock, it is high time we restored the balance, in particular by taking proper account of the public domain and open approaches to knowledge production."
 * Response to WIPO Consultation on Performing Impact Assessments for IP in the Creative Industries (blog post)

Knowledge Development

 * Open Data and Componentization (slides from talk at XTech 2007)
 * Atomisation and Open Data (wiki page of talk at XTech 2007)
 * What Do We Mean by Componentization (for Knowledge)? (blog post)
 * The Four Principles of (Open) Knowledge Development (blog post)
 * Thinking about Annotation (blog post)

Knowledge Sharing

 * Openness, Web 2.0 and the Ethic of Sharing (blog post of talk at Law 2.0)
 * The Need for More Openness (slides from talk at British Academy/AHRC conference)
 * Dead knowledge: why being explicit about openness matters (blog post)
 * Give Us the Data Raw, and Give it to Us Now (blog post)

Legal & Licensing

 * Guide to Open Data Licensing (collaborative draft) - "This a guide to licensing data aimed particularly at those who want to make their data open."
 * A guide to open licensing (draft) - This is a brief and basic overview of open licensing.
 * Keeping “Open” Libre (blog post)

Media & Communications

 * Joint response of the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Open Rights Group and Free Culture UK to OfCom’s 'A new approach to public service content in the digital media age' (collaborative document)
 * Response to OfCom’s Public Service Publisher Consultation (blog post)
 * Zoetropes and Nickelodeons: A response to OFCOM’s ‘Public Service Publisher’ proposal (blog post)
 * Talk at IIC Telecommunications and Media Forum (blog post)

Networks

 * On data transport through payment networks (blog post)

Bibliographic data

 * ‘The Future of Bibliographic Control’ and Licensing Policies for Bibliographic Data (blog post)
 * Future of Bibliographic Control - Reponse and Appendix (wiki pages)

Environmental data

 * Open Environmental Data (notes) - overview of datasets, distributors, and a brief section on related legislation and policy
 * The IPCC Data Distribution Centre - environmental data licensing (blog post)

Geodata

 * INSPIRE: Where Next? (blog post)
 * publicgeodata (website)
 * Copyright not applicable to geodata? (blog post)
 * Mashing up is hard to do (blog post)
 * Open Geo Data (wiki pages)

Historical/heritage material

 * Big Art Mob, public art and open heritage resources (blog post)
 * Open History (notes)

Instructions

 * Open Instructions (notes)

Media Metadata

 * The re:transmission of video data (blog post)

Public Sector Information

 * Giving us our own information (blog post)
 * Euro Directive on Re-Use of Public Sector Information: What Is Actually Happening at the Local Level? (blog post)

Standards

 * Towards an Open Service Definition (blog post)
 * We need an Open Service Definition (blog post)
 * Open Service Definition (collaborative draft)
 * Open Knowledge Definition (collaborative document - v. 1.0)
 * Open APIs Don’t Equal Open Knowledge (blog post)

Technological

 * Tools We Need (notes) - "Dumping ground for ideas for applications, services, and infrastructure needed for open knowledge development."
 * Software Tools (notes) - notes on open source software tools
 * Storing and Visualizing Open Data: II
 * Storing and Visualizing Open Data