Today the number of packages in the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) has passed the 200 mark! CKAN is an open registry of (open) knowledge packages - from genes to geodata, sonnets to statistics.
CKAN is being developed to serve the community of people who create, re-use and re-distribute open resources. If you have any suggestions for new features, or you would like to help out with any aspect of its development - please get in touch! You can find out more about forthcoming technical work at its trac page.
We will soon be organising another CKAN Package Party - to accelerate the registration of packages into CKAN. We also want to get more comprehensive coverage of open material in different domains - whether geodata, socioeconomic data, scientific data or literary corpora - and will be working more closely with researchers and developers to curate parts of the registry. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 6/19/2008 01:17:00 PM.
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.
