[open-science] OKFN & Environment Data

[Jenny Molloy]

For anyone not on okfn-discuss with an interest in climate and
environmental data, I would encourage you to sign up and join in the thread
below!
http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss

Jenny

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From: James Smith <james at floppy.org.uk>
Date: Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:17 PM
Subject: [okfn-discuss] OKFN & Environment Data
To: okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org


 Hi everyone,

If you saw James Cameron or Hans Rosling's speeches at OKFestival, you'll
have heard them both call for Open Data to tackle environmental problems,
particularly around opening up emissions data and so on.

There is a huge list of things that could be done, from opening up
environmental methodologies (AMEE recently opened their datasets, for
example), to improving scientific climate data, to national emissions
reporting, to visualisation, and there are some things going on in all
these areas already.

I know a few people have been talking about maybe doing some of this within
OKFN, but I thought I'd try to pull the conversation together so we can all
work together instead of stepping on each others' toes!

So, who's interested in this sort of thing, and what would you be
interested in doing? Are you already doing it? Are there parts that are
more or less appropriate for OKFN's mission? What fits, and what should be
handled elsewhere?

We can discuss here initially, but could then move to a smaller list; there
are some fairly dormant-seeming OKFN WGs and lists that might be relevant
homes for the conversation, and we also have the cleanweb-uk list which is
full of people interested in this sort of thing (see http://cleanweb.org.uk
).

cheers,
James


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