[open-linguistics] Is this group doing anything for Open Data day?

Tue Jan 21 07:53:36 UTC 2014

Hi Saul, Christian, OpenLinguists,

Quick Note Re Open Data Day:

Open Data Day in London: The Open Knowledge Foundation is organising an
OpenData Day event in London at the Centre for Creative Collaboration,
details can be found on the OKFN England
page<http://en.okfn.org/open-data-day-2014/> (where
you can sign up to attend) and if you would like to propose a topic, the
discussion is happening on the OKFN EN mailing list
<okfn-en at lists.okfn.org>, although
I am sure you can also arrive on the day and propose a topic as well! We
would love to see some Open Linguists attending.

This was just announced yesterday so it is quite possible we haven't
updated the wiki, I will make sure to do that today!

Looking forward to seeing you there.

All the best,
Katelyn

On 20 January 2014 21:14, Saul Albert <saul.albert at eecs.qmul.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 08:46:00PM +0100, Christian Chiarcos wrote:
> > But if you want to push it, your initiative is highly appreciated and
> > should be discussed over the list or at the next telco.
>
> Excellent! I'm pleased to hear it - but didn't want to push something
> that might not fit. I'm not a linguist by any stretch, but hey. Open
> data makes for a motley research community.
>
> > Linked Open Data stuff). But in any case, everyone on the list would
> > welcome discussions about the legal situation.
> >
> > The type of data you describe would be very similar to datasets from
> > typology and language documentation, and a workshop on such kind of
> > data could continue, e.g., earlier activities such as the Linked
> > Data in Typology track of the ALT conference organized by Sebastian
> > Nordhoff this summer. If you want to organize something in this
> > direction under the umbrella of the OWLG, we can add this as a topic
> > for discussion to the agenda for the next telco, and you may get in
> > direct touch with the typology (etc.) folks on the list.
>
> This sounds encouraging. I have some background list archive reading to
> do to get up on the context so far, but I think the small
> ethnolinguistic data sets I've seen and the language typology /
> documentation data sets I just found look identical in terms of their
> rights requirements, although I imagine there will be different academic
> cultures of access/sharing.
>
> For the ODD all I was hoping to achieve was to find out who is doing
> something in this area and what the state of play is with small
> linguistic/ethno data sets. So far all I've seen in the various
> conferences / departments / workshops I've visited is frustration at the
> situation and total lack of awareness of open data initiatives.
>
> > I would personally discourage starting an new OKFN working group as
> > long as your area of expertise and your interests overlaps with the
> > scope of an existing one -- unless you already have strong community
> > ties you can build on. Founding is easy, but not all groups I joined
> > are equally active, and those that are seem to live from the energy
> > of very few dedicated people, so you would have to prepare for a
> > huge investment of time and energy if you want to really keep it
> > alive ;)
>
> I hear that loud and clear :) I haven't organised an OKFN working group
> since the dark ages (well, 2005) and I'm not in a hurry to shovel time
> and energy into new initiatives - especially when existing ones are so
> welcoming.  Thanks!
>
> So, I'd be very pleased to participate in the next telco and have this
> item on the agenda.
>
> There's nobody self-identifying as being in London on the wiki page. Any
> locals on this list? Or anyone planning to do anything for their local
> ODD already?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Saul.
>
>
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