[OKFN-AU] blog posts for humanity

Tue Dec 11 01:46:12 UTC 2012

This just came across this in my stream as well... ideas abound :)

http://blog.okfn.org/2012/10/04/worlds-first-real-commercial-open-data-curation-project/

On 11 December 2012 11:17, Pia Waugh <pia.waugh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice!
> On Dec 11, 2012 9:31 AM, "Kylie Pappalardo" <kylie.pappalardo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I would add one more item to Pia's excellent list - the ABC releasing 22
>> files of archival news footage to Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons
>> Attribution (CC-BY) licences
>> http://www.abc.net.au/archives/projects.htm
>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_the_Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation
>>
>>
>> Kylie
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Pia Waugh <pia.waugh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, I don't think these are the top 10 necessarily, just something to
>>> start with :) I'm sure others have great examples too :)
>>>  On Dec 11, 2012 9:06 AM, "David F. Flanders" <
>>> david.flanders at ands.org.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A great start Pia - 9 in total, one more and we'll have a top ten...
>>>> though would love it if we could all think of even more :)  /dff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11 December 2012 05:29, Pia Waugh <pia.waugh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This sounds like a great idea Dave!
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll have a think, but off the top of my head here are a few:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Launch of righttoknow.org.au
>>>>> - 30th anniversary of FOI in Australia
>>>>> http://www.oaic.gov.au/news/events/2012_anniversary_main.html
>>>>> - launch of dataACT (first actual open data platform in Australia,
>>>>> though more may be launched before years end...)
>>>>> - launch of various HacksHackers communities around Australia
>>>>> - GovHack 2012 http://govhack.org/ and all the datasets that were
>>>>> published for that
>>>>> - "Experimental Environmental Linked-data published by the Bureau of
>>>>> Meteorology' http://lab.environment.data.gov.au/
>>>>> - NSW Government did real time bus competition - developers still have
>>>>> access and they are opening up the API properly soon
>>>>> http://www.spatialsource.com.au/2012/10/09/article/Real-time-bus-data-competition-NSW/ZCVREGNYVY.html
>>>>>  <http://www.oaic.gov.au/news/events/2012_anniversary_main.html>-
>>>>> launch of the crunch blog
>>>>> http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-crunch/welcome-to-the-crunch-data-journalism-blog-20120628-21525.html -
>>>>> and a good article on the topic generally is here
>>>>> http://www.smh.com.au/data-point/from-stolid-to-sexy-vive-la-data-revolution-20120915-25zir.html
>>>>> - launch of OKFNau ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:33 PM, David F. Flanders <
>>>>> david.flanders at ands.org.au> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Wondering if anyone on list would like to co-author a post with me on
>>>>>> what (if any) Open Knowledge efforts they have seen this past year - a kind
>>>>>> of New Year's reflection piece aka a 'Top Ten Open Knowledge' moments of
>>>>>> 2012 for Australia?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In my mind this post is not really about the OK Foundation, but more
>>>>>> about helping chart any 'Open Knowledge' that is occurring in Australia and
>>>>>> (perhaps even more importantly) re-iterating those occurrences that have
>>>>>> actually resulted in doing things in a better way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The type of thing I am thinking of:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For me the Open Knowledge moment worldwide in 2012 was the UK
>>>>>> Government finally agreeing that research (as paid by the UK taxpayer)
>>>>>> should by default be open (there are some caveats, but it was a big
>>>>>> acknowledgement of the Open Access movement none the less).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The question is: are there any moment in your mind for Australia that
>>>>>> we could point to... moments like launching an FOI request website...
>>>>>> moment such as opening up dataset not previously opened... moments of
>>>>>> declaration or manifesto... or even more personal moments when two or more
>>>>>> decided to get together and be activists for a more open Australia?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If not looking to write the post with me, any shared OK moments are
>>>>>> also greatly appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~Flanders
>>>>>>
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