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The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is an organization aiming to promote open content (referred to by the foundation as open knowledge). It was founded 24 May 2004[1] in the UK. The foundation has published the Open Knowledge Definition and runs several projects.
[edit] AimsThe aims of the Open Knowledge Foundation are:[2]
It was co-founded by Rufus Pollock who remains a Director of the Company, along with Martin Keegan and Jo Walsh. The company Open Knowledge Foundation Limited was incorporated in 20 May 2004. [edit] The Open Knowledge TrailThe Open Knowledge Trail [3] addresses issues in the following areas, and is at the core of the Foundation's ethos:
[edit] ConferencesThe Open Knowledge Foundation held the first Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) in 2007, and the second in in March 2008. In Autumn 2005 the Foundation had co-organized together with Node.London and others a similar entitled the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures. All of conferences have so been held London, UK. It appears that the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon)[4] is intended to become a regular event. The theme of the 2007 conference was Atomisation and Commercial Opportunity.[5] Some of the talks were as follows:[6]
Charles Arthur spoke about the Free Our Data campaign, which aims to encourage the UK government to make 'impersonal government data available at cost'. Other speakers include Steve Coast of OpenStreetMap and Ed Parson who said that current licensing of Ordnance Survey data was unsatisfactory.[11] [edit] ProjectsSome of the projects are listed below:[12]
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