Open Knowledge Foundation Ideas Incubator - latest ideas

A web community of academics with the aim of killing the current journal publishing model

Easy_now — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:36:30 +0100

Several publishers and academic institutions have tried to make community-based tools that crowd-source academics (or hand-pick them, which is worse...) to recommend good journal articles or encourage discussion of articles as they're published. By and large they've failed, but the tools are out there and it may very well not be long before the ultimate journal-killing web resource comes along which allows publication of results and the discussion and distillation of them into something much easier to digest than your average paper. The main thing that's missing is a system which actually encourages discussion so that there is a lively debate going on around each publication or result. I don't think anyone's been able to make this happen yet. I have some ideas for how to do this which I think are blindingly obviously the way to do it, but so far no one in the publishing world seems to have thought of them, so maybe they're wildly impractical.

It would be great if the OKF could get hold of some government funding and have a go at making this thing though, as I think you're a) the right organisation to be trusted to do it right; and b) in a very good position to be in with a chance of making it work - you've got the skills and I expect you've also got the contacts, or if you don't have the contacts I expect it'd be easy to get them.

Wikigrid - a platform for research in the Digital Humanites

Olaf Simons — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:11:20 +0100

A Semantic Media Wiki serving the digital humanities (and everyone interested) as a collective repository of primary information

designed to collect metadata from research institutions, archives, libraries
inviting researchers to modify, augment and create information and to use the grid as a collective card box for preliminary and sketchy information (as long as items can be linked to primary sources)
inviting users to set links between items and to analyze the connections
offering visualizations such as
the distribution of search results on maps
the configuration of networks
timeline statistics
quantifying diagrams

for more: http://wiki-grid.org/wikigrid-project.pdf

Cron in the Cloud

rgrp — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:45:24 +0000

Want a service where I can give it a piece of code (including a pointer to git or mercurial repo) and have it run that code on a regular basis.

Wishlist of features:

Language: python, js (node.js)
Notification of run and results
Store results locally and remotely (files and databases)
Logging support (possibly using XUnit)
Workflow support (do this after that has run successfully)
Spin up workers on demand

This is result of long-running discussions of Friedrich Lindenberg and Rufus Pollock and is almost certainly not original. (See also this post: http://notebook.okfn.org/2011/04/18/25k-spending-etl-process/)

irc.okfn.org

jwyg — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:11:14 +0000

Web based client for #okfn IRC channel on irc.oftc.net.

Options:

Embed Mibbit in a basic Wordpress site (pro: very easy, con: has ads)
Deploy CGI/Java script at irc.okfn.org (pro: clean/customisable, con: takes time)

Open data for mobile health services

markherringer — Mon, 28 May 2012 22:04:47 +0100

This project seeks to establish an open development business model focused on mobile health services.

As a pilot/demonstrator project in the run op to the OKFestival it will show how open source, open data and open business models can support a development outcome.

Mobile services are primarily about linking – connecting people to information, services, and people who can help. If there are not adequate services, systems, or trained people to connect to, then mobile services are weak.''

Peter Benjamin - MD of Cell Life. http://www.healthunbound.org/content/%E2%80%9Cwe-have-real-chance-revolutionise%E2%80%9D

This proposal aims to establish a set of open data services that link to people and services who can support mhealth.

Through these data services the project will build a business case to support the project.

The project focuses on the following Millennium Development Goals:

MDG 3 on empowering women

MDG 4 on reducing child mortality

MDG 5 on improving maternal health

MDG 6 combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.

The outputs of the project and members of the project team will present their findings and knowledge to the open development stream at: http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/open-development-okfest2012

PDF / TIFF / Scan to Text Conversion Service

rgrp — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:47:23 +0100

Dedicated service to do PDF to text extraction (or from TIFF or from other image scan formats).

(Originally: http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/182)

A Public Domain Reader & Dynamic Anthologies

DaveClark — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:59:00 +0000

Description: A regularly-updated library of curated excerpts from texts in the public domain, and a tool for creating dynamic anthologies. The site would feature not complete works (like Public Domain Review), not quotations, and not just page images, but deliberately selected and edited passages no shorter than a paragraph, no longer than a short article or story, tagged in various ways to create a library of interconnected selections.

Passages could be connected by topic, genre, date, location, school of thought or artistic movement, theme, influences -- any commonalities that arise. The goal would be to produce a wide variety of strands, while keeping each on organized enough that users could follow or browse a strand without becoming overwhelmed.
Users could subscribe to an RSS feed for regular exposure to new passages; could spread a passage through social media; could reproduce it on their blogs; could save it with Instapaper or Evernote to read later. By excerpting public domain resources in chunks short enough to be widely read and shared, we would be adding thousands of years to the range of ideas, sensibilities, and styles that Internet readers encounter.
There could be different RSS feeds for different readerly interests -- one for literary excerpts, another for philosophy, another for poetry, another for weird science, another for famous or "important" texts (such as those that would be included in scholarly print anthologies from publishers like Norton, Longman, or Oxford), and so on.
There could be various ways to browse, bookmark, group, share, and comment upon selections.
Users could create their own anthologies and browse those created by other users or by experts. In fact, one of the main reasons to build this site is to improve upon the traditional book-bound anthology model.
Teachers (many of whom still find it difficult to productively utilize the public domain) could create custom anthologies for their classes.
Any user could submit passages that she's gathered on her own, thanks to idiosyncratic interests, experiences, and expertise.
This project could coordinate with lots of existing projects, such as Public Domain Review, text collections like Project Gutenberg and Open Archive, curated collections of contemporary readings like Arts & Letters Daily.

Project Coordinator: David Clark

Resources Needed:

Help with web development. At its most basic level, this project could be started with a simple CMS like Wordpress; but more in-depth programming would be needed, I think, to implement all the functional possibilities (such as those listed above) that would make the site particularly valuable.
Money that would allow for time that could be devoted to content development, to gathering and classifying and editing, etc.
Other people interested in hunting out and gathering worthwhile excerpts of works in the public domain.
If the site got going, we would need to spread the word to get people interested and active, since the success of the project (beyond just being an RSS feed of public domain excerpts) would depend in part upon a participatory readership.

We agree to the OKF project criteria.

Creating an online discussion, knowledge sharing, voting and project development platform.

Erik Willekens — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:47:53 +0100

http://www.quora.com/Online-Governance -> related projects, general information and principles http://www.quora.com/Erik-Willekens/Online-governance-The-Basic-Setup -> my personal concept, ideas and mockups

How could we build a discussion platform to solve complex and international problems? How could the structure of discussions on complex problems be translated to an online interface in order for a community to collaborate on solving those problems?

I think our world needs an online governance platform. A platform which allows people to facilitate, discuss, mediate, structure, build up and understand issues, solutions and knowledge. A collaborative platform where everyone could work on policy and debate and make things happen.

This could be all areas: personal, community, political, corporate and organisational, NGO and non-profit governance.

The idea is to weigh, discuss, structure and mediate projects/questions/problems that arrive from a community-based website comparable to, yet more complex than Quora. I'm developing a workflow which could serve as an example. Please let me know if you'd like to join the brainstorm.

ErikWillekens@gmail.com Skype: erikwillekens 0486 66 10 84

Show me my money (Government money expenditure tracking system via data)

Tajoa — Mon, 07 May 2012 08:22:24 +0100

This project will help Tanzania journalists to use data in tracking government money expenditure .

Histories of open knowledge

ajhalo — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:27:23 +0100

Principles of open knowledge have been accepted by the civil society and governments alike, but there is a certain lack of historical research on the subject. This project would give a voice to the community itself, by creating a communal narrative of the development of open knowledge. Below is attached a rough draft proposal of the project. All feedback and ideas are very much appreciated.

Best, Antti Halonen

Project proposal

Title: Histories of open knowledge

Summary (for crowdfunding proposal only):

Help writing a history of one of the most rapidly expanding networks of the modern society. Principles of open knowledge have been accepted by the civil society and governments alike, but there is a certain lack of historical research on the subject. This project gives a voice to the community itself, by creating a communal narrative of the development of open knowledge.

Your support is needed in order to ensure the part-time work of a project coordinator, who supervises the project, draws a methodology and later sets up history workshops and compiles the perceptions of the community into a single narrative, which will be published in Autumn 2012 under open access regulations.

Project coordinator: Antti Halonen

Contact email: antti.halonen.10@ucl.ac.uk

Project description:

Purpose of the project is to write a history of the open knowledge movement, as perceived by the open knowledge community itself. Now that open knowledge movement has increasingly started to gain leverage and the principles of transparency are being introduced in both governmental and civil-society levels, it is time to compile a narrative of how open knowledge has emerged as a global movement.

A crowdfunding proposal will be made in order to ensure part-time work of the project coordinator. Having the status of an Open Knowledge Foundation project would help this significantly. Also, it would be much easier to get the message out to the community and attract community members to provide their perceptions for the research purposes.

According to one widely accepted view of historiography history is necessarily a combination of many different histories and several recollections of the past (for instance, Kalela 2012). Therefore this project aims at presenting a history of open knowledge like the members of the global open knowledge community perceive it. Community members are encouraged to take part in research circles and provide their recollections on the past. A young historian (project coordinator) will facilitate the project and conduct the final editing process. The outcome of the project will be a communal narrative of the conceptual development of open knowledge.

Methodology of the project will be based on the idea of history as a joint communal project. Like, for instance Raphael Samuel has argued, the sole authority of a historian is questioned and instead the community itself will be given a voice on about what is relevant and how the subject should be reviewed. Effectively, participants will be asked to “write their own histories”. What kind of issues have influenced their own thoughts and opinions? Why have they decided to take part in the open knowledge movement? What events have influenced their own thought and ideas about the society and the open knowledge movement?

After the project coordinator has finished drafting the methodology, the initial discussions will take place at the OKF wiki or blog space, where community members can provide their own recollections of the movement’s history. These discussions and stories will be then used as the primary material for the history workshop at the Open Knowledge Festival in September. During the workshop the community members will collaborate in drafting the initial narrative of the history of the open knowledge movement, and perhaps of Open Knowledge Foundation, too. After OKFest, the project coordinator will conduct the final editing process and compile the research into a comprehensive narrative, which will still be approved by the community and then published under open access regulations. If there is enough funding available, the narrative can be also published as a hard copy.

Timeline:

Phase 1:

Project coordinator conducts a literature review on the emergence of open knowledge as a concept and drafts a methodology on how to study the history of open knowledge in an open manner. (May – June 2012)

Phase 2:

Open knowledge community members are asked to provide their own recollections on how they got involved in the movement and what are their perceptions of the open knowledge concept. A suitable platform, possibly a wiki or a blog will be set up for this purpose. (June – September 2012)

Phase 3:

During Open Knowledge Festival the project coordinator will lead a history workshop where the community recollections and perceptions are discussed and compiled into a draft version of the history. Before the workshop a renowned professor of history (for instance Jorma Kalela) will give a keynote speech on history as a joint communal project. (September 2012)

Phase 4:

Project coordinator edits the draft and conducts the final narrative. Final work is approved by the community and published under open access regulations. (September – October 2012)

Resources needed:

• Support in identifying potential crowdfunding sources and gathering funding in order to enable project coordinator’s six months’ (May-October 2012) part-time work and the travel and accommodation costs during the OKFest (£6000-£8000). • Blog/wiki space from OKF servers. • Space for the history workshop at OKFest (two days) • Publisher for the final report

Tags:

okfn-project-proposal

Give me my data: online crowd-sourcing platform

infoscape — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:18:13 +0000

This particular idea is quite large in scale. The foundation for this idea is that in Europe, companies (e.g. supermarkets, energy companies, telephone companies, marketing firms, even Facebook and Google, ...) are obliged to turn over 'any' information they have about any citizen, should he or she personally request for it.

So, the idea is to make such public information requests happen easily and intuitively, on a massive scale, and to make the aggregation and (anonymous) sharing of this data possible.

As the first step, there should exist a website at which any citizen can download a relevant letter template and the relevant address of any company she is a customer with. This contact data and template could be created through crowd-sourcing. As a result, the citizen should be able to mail, fax or send a personal and legally binding request for her data within the timespan of 5 minutes or less.

Dedicated company profiles can then track the performance of the companies to these requests (e.g. average time to answer, quality of response, etc.), allow people to share tips of how to get an answer, and so on. Through this public platform, specific companies can be more easily compared and reviewed, similar to TripAdvisor, for instance. Data can be aggregated and compared by company, by business area, and so on.

As the second step, there should exist a collection of easy-to-use tools that can digitize and upload any information that has been given to the citizen by the companies. Such data might be provided on paper, in weird formats, unconventional time periods, and whatever. There might thus be a need to develop a specific tool, for a specific company. Again, this could happen through crowd-sourcing and by encouraging private developers to share their tools.

As the third step, there should exist some sort of online platform that allows the citizen to open up her information to others, even anonymously, so this data can be shared and compared (e.g. does a similar family in terms of number and age of children, house, etc. consume the same amount of energy than my family, and if they do, what do they pay for it). It would be interesting to compare such data locally, but as much internationally, for instance, based on real, 'individual' data. There might well be the case that people are intrinsically inclined to share their data if they can benefit from it, for instance by learning from others...

Greetings - infoscape.

Adding the Source (to News)

rgrp — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:14:01 +0000

Purpose: Add sources (back) into news stories via crowdsourcing and large-scale automated text-matching

Most news articles give little or no indication of the source of their material. However, research shows [^1] that a vast amount of news output from top newspapers, especially online, is recycled directly from the news wires or press releases.

In this project we will do 2 things:

Exploit the possibilities of large-scale automated text-matching to automatically identify and document such recycling providing a way for readers to "add the source" back into what they read.
Provide ways for users to add these sources themselves via a website (or bookmarklet javascript approach)

Colophon: Originally suggested in June '09 - see http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Adding_the_Source

[^1]: see Flat Earth News

Business Marketing

mbolducqe — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:39:44 +0100

Sms Mobile Advertising - SnapGiant provides text marketing products, services and education to empower you to establish your mobile marketing presence with sms marketing, mobile advertising solutions.

Thank the Tyrants

Tyrant Buster — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:32:00 +0100

The idea is an online platform that is in part a backlash to existing NGOs which concentrate on symbolic actions rather than actions that would have real impact on tyrannies by undermining their income and support.

Tyrants cannot operate without the support of those who profit from the tyranny. These are public institutions and private corporations operating at a global level. Although global, they still have to function at a local level.

The portal would clearly outline links of support between: • tyrannical regimes • multinationals • global & local institutions • local governments & businesses

So that users can take appropriate actions in their local community to affect change.

Support for tyrannies can come in many forms. The most direct is doing business and having relations with tyrannical regimes - thereby giving them legitimacy - to more sinister as bribing officials for illegal permits or over-riding the rights of their citizens.

By entering local information (such as their postcode, government riding, etc.), users can see how elements in their own community can benefit these regimes through the direct or indirect profit of the supporting multinational organisations.

Users can then choose to act on this information by sending a letter to the leaders of these local organizations or government officials to thank them for their support on behalf of the tyrant in question.

For each letter that is printed off, the user is added to a petition and when a critical number has been reached, various media outlets are informed of the embarrassing and critical “thank-you” letters on behalf of the tyrant, raising even more awareness.

In addition, the portal will have full Web 2.0 functionality to allow for collaboration, forums, event organization and information exchange among it users so that traditional campaigns (demonstrations, boycotts, etc.) can be staged in addition to the “Thank-you" campaign.

The single biggest hurdle in implementing this concept has been tying all the various information sources necessary to expose these support links.

The links between tyrannies and multinational organisations would be globally consistent. How their products/services manifest themselves in a local community would need to be populated with local content.

Thank the Tyrants Concept Video

Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) Hosting

pyvandenbussche — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:23:09 +0000

Title: Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)

Project Coordinator: Bernard VATANT, Pierre-Yves VANDENBUSSCHE

Contact Email: bvatant A_T gmail.com

Project Description: Vocabularies we are about are the many dialects (RDFS and OWL ontologies) used in the growing linked data Web. Most popular ones form now a core of Semantic Web standards de jure (SKOS, Dublin Core, FRBR …) or de facto (FOAF, Event Ontology …). But many more are published and used. Not only linked data leverage a growing set of vocabularies, but vocabularies themselves rely more and more on each other through reusing, refining or extending, stating equivalences, declaring metadata.

LOV project aims at : - providing easy access methods to this vocabularies ecosystem, and in particular by making explicit the ways they link to each other - providing metrics on how they are used in the linked data cloud - helping to improve their understanding, visibility, usability, and overall quality.

LOV provides a technical platform for search and quality assessment among the vocabularies ecosystem. This project is currently hosted by Mondeca company http://labs.mondeca.com/dataset/lov, but we are now convinced that this project should be integrated in a public organization which can ensure this project/resource sustainability. We hope to find in Open Knowledge Foundation a long term solution for this valuable project and resources.

Tags: okfn-project-proposal, datacatalog, opendata, linked-open-data, webapp, visualisation, vocabulary

Resources: To achieve our vision, we need a hosting server to be independent of any private interest. We currently have the human resources required to support this project but are open to welcome anyone who is interested in.

Conformance with OKFN Project Criteria: “We agree to the OKFN project criteria”.

Please, let us know if OKFN could host the project or not.

Sincerely,

Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche and Bernard vatant

OKFN Open Scientific Data Journal

pablomendes — Mon, 30 May 2011 10:56:26 +0100

A recently conducted a survey asked people in research about their readiness to make data freely available. The results were not very uplifting: about 10% of the respondents would share openly, some with a password (30%), the majority won't share at all. We believe that publishing open scientific data should be tied to the notion of a journal/publication because people sitting on valuable datasets will rarely make then available unless they feel it's in the form of a "real", citable publication.

We propose the creation of an online journal by the OKFN that allows people to publish articles describing their open datasets, along with methodology for creation, intended applications, or other information useful for researchers who would potentially reuse the data. In most research articles, the dataset is provided as supplemental material, if at all. Here it would be at the core of the publication, while methodology, applications, etc. are supplementary.

It could be an all-purpose OKFN data journal with discipline specific tracks/committees.

(The text for this idea was built from e-mails exchanged in the context of this thread at the open-linguistics list: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-linguistics/2011-May/000078.html)

Service for allocation of discrete volunteer tasks a la mechanical turk

rgrp — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:57:42 +0100

Can one just do this in mechanical turk?

OpenData Validation Service

rag — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:03:26 +0000

The project aims at providing a web app to check for "Openness" of data catalogs and individual entries.

Howto:

Define and implement metrics for "OD best practices“ features and aggregate the values. The (french) work from OpQuast and TimBL's 5-star scale are probably good starting points for that task. Any suggestion is welcome.
Define API to collect input values of a given catalog/entry to perform metrics computation.
Develop several extractors/scrapers for, let say CKAN repositories (DataCatalogs, DataHub,...) and several well-known specific OD platforms to bootstrap and evaluate the process
Develop a downgraded generic extractor for any platform
Develop extra features, such like statistics, maps, search facilities, etc. to highlight and promote indexed data sources.
Expose API to offer developers the ability to develop their own extractors and connect new data sources.

To do that, we are actually a team of 6 to 8 software developers/CS researchers. We aim at launching the beta version at Nantes OpenData Days, that will be held from 22 to 25 May 2012 in Nantes, France. One of the satellite events of the NODDs is http://sites.google.com/site/opendata2012/.

Please, let me know whether you think this project would be valuable for the OpenData movement and, second, whether OKFN could support the project or not.

Sincerely,

Guillaume Raschia.

Mini visualization app that shows me how much of any CD or DVD price goes to Artists

rgrp — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:58:08 +0000

Mini visualization app that shows me how much of any CD or DVD price goes to artists. Could also show:

Amount going to label / producers
Amount going to promotion and advertising
Other ways to contribute to the artist

Was It On Time? App

rgrp — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:00:20 +0000

Purpose: allow users to record whether trains/planes/etc are on time via a simple webapp / phone app.

Why? Official on-time statistics do now exist for some modes of transport in some countries. However, they are far from comprehensive. More importantly it is unclear that 'official' figures (collected by the operators0 record what users actually experience.

Required:

Identifiers for services (e.g. train route and timing) so that you can record on-time stats against that service
Simple phone or webapp that let's you record whether a given service is on-time. Should allow you to quickly select the service and then either a) to push a button to indicate the service arrived at that moment b) enter a time for arrival. Service should optionally record user information so that one can deal with spamming or poor data entry.

Wiki-like editing service for documents in HG/Git

pudo — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:07:16 +0100

We should have a service that allows users to edit documents (in whatever syntax, agnostic) in a mercurial repo via a web user interface. The service should handle user management, commits and, possibly, branches.

vis.okfn.org - a simple guide to open source data visualisation tools

jwyg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:45:16 +0100

A simple guide to open source data visualisation tools.

We have some notes on this here: http://wiki.okfn.org/OpenVisualisation

In the first instance these would be deployed at a basic Wordpress site at: http://vis.okfn.org.

In long term would become a useful, up-to-date source of reference for open source data visualisation tools!

GiveMeTheDamnSchema.org - Find Data Schemas Fast

rgrp — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:10:37 +0000

Idea that came up during workshop at Open Gov Data Camp was need for a simple place to find data schemas (discussion came up when discussing RDF schemas but is generally applicable).

Suggestion was http://GiveMeTheDamnSchema.org/ but could shorten to http://GiveMeTheSchema.org/

Geomap of OKFN Community Members

rgrp — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:24:09 +0100

Pull out the location field from OKFN member profiles, geolocate them and then plot them on a map.

OKN Surgeries

KPC — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:31:06 +0000

Looking through these ideas I think there is a real call for a regular OKN surgery whereby those thinking about Open Data projects could have a half hour, one on one session, with an experienced OKN practitioner. This might happen face to face, or more practically over Skype or IRC. This could be really useful for kick starting projects, particularly where those of us who are not as technical, can articulate s project at a conceptual level (whilst learning practical skills). What d'ya think ?

Idea: Web Orchestration Language

Sebastian Wain — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:10:37 +0000

I am sharing a long term vision for a product/service related to open data. Its name is Egont (Negation of Ego). If you're interested part II of the idea is at: Egont Part II

Inspiration

Human curiosity goes beyond limited web applications, recommendation systems and search engines. People collect lists of things on the web. Things like music playlists, movie rankings or visited places are populating our web culture, but this information is spread out in different places and we need search engines, social networks, and recommendation systems to leverage it. The real-time web also offers transformation opportunities which are only limited by the imagination.

How can we adjust all this information to our personal or organizational needs? The semantic web could play an important role here, but the web is not organized semantically yet. However, it is possible today to give people tools to manipulate information at a personal and social level. Spreadsheets have hundreds of functions which are used by people with limited computer and mathematical skills. What if we could transform information in a similar way? What if a new stimuli, like a new tweet or a new ranked movie could trigger a cascade of processes?

People and organizations are sharing a record amount of data, but current web platforms tightly dictate the limits to its use. For example Twitter’s API has very small call rates for the general public. Most Twitter applications cannot retrieve more than one or two degrees of a user’s social network without working around these API limitations. Examples of API limitations abound, undermining the opportunities to leverage data potentials.

The inspiration for Egont was come from the idea of a social operating system. People do not only share data, they also share data transformations. Egont is a platform for writing simple code snippets, while allowing others to reuse them to extract new information. It is a shared pipeline which is focused on connecting people’s data and processes. It can be thought of as a living operating system: when a state changes, the dependant processes are recalculated. Although Egont has clear security controls it’s primarily oriented to data that can be shared, even providing tools for exporting information to be analyzed offline. The shift is from a perspective where users accept platforms applications, to a perspective where users do not only generate data but also processes. Users and third parties will be free to write new functions to extend Egont’s capabilities.

Etherpad - wiki integration

rgrp — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:23:39 +0000

Integrate an etherpad with a wiki. Specifically:

Edit a wiki page like it is in etherpad
Concretely: a given wiki page can be put in an etherpad type state and then removed from that state the current page contents is saved as a new wiki revision

Why? Get the best of both worlds: structure of a wiki, wiki revisions, users etc but with ability to etherpad editability (i.e. multiple simultaneous users)

Issues:

Who is author of wiki revision on etherpad save? (Assume saving user ...)

Training Courses

tim mcnamara — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:03:26 +0100

While we are a pretty small organisation, there are some smart people amongst us! I wonder if we could offer training to people in the local area. I know that here in New Zealand, there have been a number of people who are wanting to learn more about open government data etc.

I see courses as a way of being able to spread knowledge in a cost-neutral or cost-positive way to the organisation.

Some of the areas that I thought that we could possibly add value with:

Tutorials on data wrangling
Introduction to Open Data / Open Government Data
Linked Data
Finding
Finding/using public domain works
Digitisation techniques
Seminars on licencing

#opendata for non-developers

jwyg — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:15:26 +0000

Basic guide to help non-developers get, use and share open data, including e.g.:

Open source GUI tools for exploring, analysing and visually representing open datasets
Online tools for scraping and cleaning up datasets
Information about how to find and request datasets
Information about how to republish datasets so that others can reuse them

OpenGateway

OPOXIII — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:46:52 +0000

The OpenGateway Project, a team of architect design idea and vision, and a draft proposal to Philippine Government to be able to establish a centralized gateway of information and a gateway for interconnected-integrated-interrelated system as a Joint-Initiative between Government and Public/Private (GPPI: Government-Public/Private Initiative) -- OPOXIII Phase-X.1 : "Open Gateway Project"

All facilities, platforms and systems are managed and maintained thru a Working Group named, --GPPI Philippines.

Gateway -a grid of hosting and communication facilities to interconnect all government agencies, business industries, institutions, etc. to provide automated-electronic services such as registration and licensing, verification and authentication, accreditation, tax service, identity service, security for trust and privacy, payment and collection gateways, Saas, etc.
Interconnected-Integrated-Interrelated System -named as the "OpenSystem".
Some of the platforms and systems used in the Open Gateway project was also related to other ideas and can be added as part their own initiative (+contribution, as we call it)

Next: OpenSystem, OpenIntegration, OpenContribution

-- Team Architect's Initiative