[okfn-discuss] Open Knowledge Scotland, May 13th, 3-7pm, Edinburgh

Thu Apr 8 14:52:12 UTC 2010

Hey Jo!

It would be great if you could pop a quick post about this on the OKF
blog if you have a chance!

Good to see all the progress being made on the front ...

J.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org> wrote:
> dear all,
>
> A group of us in Edinburgh are organising a mini-OKCon in the Informatics
> Forum, with support from IDEA Lab and EDINA.
> May 13th, 3-7pm. A couple of "clinics" planned on open data licensing and
> Linked Data, plenty of space for lightning talks.
> Please consider contributing a talk, or forward this mail to those you know
> who might be interested. Looking forward to it...
>
> Open Knowledge Scotland
> -----------------------
>
> Where: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
> When: Thursday May 13th, 3-7pm (coffee & registration from 2:30)
> How much: Free
> Register:  http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/
>
>
> This event brings together interested parties 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.
>
> Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a wide
> range of areas from governance to science, culture to technology. Opening up
> access to digital content can radically increase access and reuse, improving
> transparency, fostering innovation and increasing societal welfare.
>
> In addition to high profile initiatives such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and
> the Human Genome Project, there is enormous growth among open knowledge
> projects and communities at all levels. Moreover, last year, the UK
> government began opening up their data on the Linked Data cloud through
> data.gov.uk.
>
> In academia, open access to both publications and data has been gathering
> momentum, and similar calls to open up learning materials have been heard in
> education. This gathering flood of open data and content is the creator and
> driver of massive technological change.
>
> During the event we will consider questions such as: What data can be made
> available? Are there privacy or ethical concerns? How can we connect it
> together? How can we use it to collaborate and share our work? How can
> Scotland benefit from open data? Are there public implications for
> entrepreneurial or ‘big business’ participation?
>
> In the spirit of openness and exchange we invite participants to offer
> contributions on any aspect of creating, publishing or reusing open content
> in accordance with  http://opendefinition.org/ .
>
> We hope that this event provides an open forum for discussion amongst
> researchers and practitioners about open knowledge in Scotland.
>
> Potential topics for discussion could include:
>
> ¨       Open educational resources and tools
>
> ¨       Business models for open content
>
> ¨       Semantic Web and Linked Data in relation to open knowledge
>
> ¨       Platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and curating open
> knowledge
>
> ¨       Open Licensing, Legal Tools and the Public Domain
>
> ¨       Open government data and content (public sector information)
>
> ¨       Supporting scientific workflows with open knowledge models
>
> ¨       Open models for scientific innovation, funding and publication
> ('open-access')
>
> ¨       Tools for analysing and visualizing open data
>
> We welcome contributions in the form of short 10 minute lightning talks,
> posters or demonstrations. If you are interested please register your
> attendance and optional short talk at http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/
>
> We look forward to meeting with you soon.
>
> The Open Knowledge Scotland Team
>
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