I've been lucky enough to be asked to speak at the Society of Cartographers Summer School on September 6th....This year, they're running a half day on Public Access to Maps and Data, featuring a lot of the same people and themes as the Open Geodata Forum that we put on with the Open Knowledge Foundation in April. Roger Longhorn, who booted my understanding of geodata policy issues to a new level; Richard Fairhurst, whose geowiki project provided pioneering inspiration; the indefatigable Steve Coast from the OpenStreetmap project, providing such a viable Plan B to hold us over until we can gain free of cost, nonprofit access without supplication, to our national mapping data. Also speaking in this session is Ed Parsons, the CTO of the Ordnance Survey, the government agency turned monopoly private company that 'owns' and re-sells the UK's national mapping data.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/06/2005 09:25:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
