[okfn-discuss] introducing… yours truly

Wed Aug 3 13:33:38 UTC 2011

Hi daniel, thanks for the links. I'll have a look at the working groups.  

Cheers
-Z

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Zach Beauvais | @zbeauvais (http://www.twitter.com/zbeauvais)zachbeauvais.com (http://www.zachbeauvais.com/)

On Tuesday, 2 August 2011 at 19:01, Daniel Dietrich wrote:

> Hey Zach
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> Great to hear from you! Have you joined the Working groups of Open Government Data[1] and Open Data in the EU [2] ? If not please consider joining low volume mailing lists.
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> All the best and welcome to the party!
> Daniel
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> 1. http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/government
> 2. http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/euopendata
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> Daniel Dietrich
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> On 02.08.2011, at 15:49, Zach Beauvais wrote:
> > Hiya,
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> > I have recently joined this list, and the OKF itself after attending the OKCon in Berlin a few weeks back.
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> > It seems like I'm a bit late joining the party, so thought I'd make a beeline to the drinks table and introduce myself and what I've been working on for the past couple years.
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> > I'm Zach, and work for Talis, a UK-based data company. For several years, I edited Nodalities (http://www.talis.com/nodalities)magazine, the final edition of which just went out last month. It was a wonderful project to work on, and I'm hoping to bring some ideas from that to the OKF group.
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> > I currently work on Kasabi (http://www.kasabi.com/), which is a startup within Talis, and is essentially a place to publish and access data. It's built on top of Linked Data, but is aimed at a wide variety of publishers and developers. One of the goals is to provide ways to access data in a powerfully flexible way with the technology that you're most comfortable with. It is important to us to have a sustainable place for open data. Leigh Dodds, Kasabi's programme manager, blogged about Kasabi on the OKFN blog (http://blog.okfn.org/2011/06/25/open-data-and-kasabi/), and I'll nick one of his paragraphs for a useful summary:
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> > Data hosting in Kasabi is free. This means anyone can use Kasabi as a way to publish Open Data for others to use. A number of the core APIs and services, including basic Linked Data publishing will also always be a free part of the service. Data is most useful when it can be quickly and easily accessed and linked to other sources. This means the service provides a completely free platform for sharing Linked Open Data.
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> > I look after the developer community building up around Kasabi, and run hackdays/events etc around the datasets we host—for example. We have some things coming up which might be of interest to the OKF network, including the Culture Hack Day (http://kasabi-culture.eventbrite.com/) on 21 September in London (http://kasabi-culture.eventbrite.com (http://kasabi-culture.eventbrite.com/)), which is aimed at developers wanting to build applications on top of open datasets themed around culture: art, music, food, theatres, museums… and the rest. I am hoping that some folk within the OKF group would be interested in joining us.
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> > I'm also looking for ideas around interesting datasets that need a sustainable home online, so this might be helpful for folk with datasets too.
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> > Anywho, I'm glad to be joining up, and look forward to ideas, data, and hopefully some coffee sometime.
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> > All my contact info follows too,
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> > Cheers,
> > -Z
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> > ---Zach Beauvais | @zbeauvais (http://www.twitter.com/zbeauvais)
> > Community Manager, Kasabi
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> > email: zb at talis.com (mailto:zb at talis.com)
> > skype: zbeauvais
> > phone: 07775 870 362
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> > Zach Beauvais | @zbeauvais (http://www.twitter.com/zbeauvais)zachbeauvais.com (http://www.zachbeauvais.com/)
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