[open-science] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) in London on 24th April 2010

Thu Apr 15 02:20:03 UTC 2010

Any plans for webcasting or otherwise making sessions available online
afterwards for those unable to attend?

Jessy

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A quick reminder that this year's Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) is
> taking place in London on 24th April 2010 - in 10 days time! There are
> still tickets left - and you can register at the following link:
>
>  http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/
>
> Speakers and sessions include:
>
>  * 'State of the Nation' Keynotes:
>     - Matthias Schindler, Wikimedia (Germany) on 'Bibliographic Data
> and the Public Domain'
>     - Glyn Moody, on the 'Post-Analogue World'
>     - Peter Murray-Rust, on 'Recent Developments in Open Science'
>     - Chris Taggart, on 'Open Local Government Data'
>     - Sören Auer, on 'Linked Open Data'
>     - Jordan Hatcher, on 'Open Licensing for Data'
>  * Ideas and Culture with talks on analyzing 'Dickens Letters' and
> 'Making the Physical from the Digital'
>  * Open Bibliographic Information with talks on 'The Itinerant Poetry
> Library' and the 'Journal Commons'
>  * Community Driven Research with talks on 'Climate data' and 'Open
> Archaeology'
>  * Civic Information with talks on 'Using Open Government Data to
> Profile Politicians' and the 'Straight Choice'
>  * Open Government Data and PSI in the EU which looks at the current
> state of play in France, Norway, Germany, the UK and elsewhere
>  * Tools with talks on 'Large-scale data handling and revisioning'
> with the Genome, Ontowiki, CKAN and more
>  * Open Data and the Semantic Web with talks about South Korean
> DBPedia and Thesaurus Management Tool ‘Pool Party’
>  * Open Data in International Development including talks from
> PublishWhatYouFund and on OpenStreetMap in Haiti
>
> Further details are available at:
>
>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2010/04/14/okcon-2010-nearly-here-24th-april-2010-in-london/
>  http://www.okfn.org/okcon/programme
>
> More information:
>
>  * Main conference page: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
>  * FAQ: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/faq
>
> If you have any questions please email Sara Wingate-Gray at
> sara.gray at okfn.org.
>
> We look forward to seeing people there!
>
> All the best,
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://blog.okfn.org
>
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>
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Jessy Cowan-Sharp
http://jessykate.com
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