1st Meetup

Details

  • When: Wednesday 30th April, 19:00-21:00

  • Where: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QS.

Agenda

  • Brief introductions and descriptions of work/interest
  • What is Open Knowledge? - Jonathan Gray
  • Towards Text Analysis and Literary Mapping - Iain Emsley

Publicity

Notes

The following are notes that were drafted on the projector throughout discussion:

  • project/event ideas
    • use cases or ideas for re-using closed data (and/or open data?)
    • evidence about how we can best promote open knowledge?
  • what could you do if x was open? (cf. us project - what could you do with a million books)
  • workshops
    • open licensing
    • visualisation
    • text analysis
  • cultural heritage
  • digital methods
  • social aspects of open knowledge projects?
    • advocacy
    • barriers/problems?
  • toolkit for data providers
    • video with different examples
    • different domains showing best practices
  • open knowledge projects
    • libraries
      • opening times (bottom up? like rail tuck)
      • where collections are (bibliographic data?)
  • economics of open knowledge?
    • commercial viability of open content?
    • business models
    • funding models
  • psi re-use
    • awards for opening up psi?
    • awards for exemplary open knowledge projects?