... There was representation from across the board - from local government to European policy analysts, from civic society to commercial re-users. The day started out with introductions and planning - and jumped into fruitful and interesting discussions about technical, legal and social aspects of public information discovery and re-use. Rufus Pollock spoke about [the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network] and other things, and John Sheridan spoke about Information Asset Registers (IARs).
After lunch we had a brainstorm about what kinds of particular documents and datasets people wanted to get stuck into. We took notes on the wiki and on flip charts and entered some new packages into CKAN ...
Moving forward, we’d like to continue to improve and add to the UK government and public information packages on CKAN (cf. uk tag). We strongly encourage you to edit existing packages to fill in gaps or additional information, or to register new ones you may know about!
Also, where relevant and appopriate, we’d like to add some new requests to [the Office of Public Sector Information]’s excellent beta for a Public Sector Information Unlocking Service! We’d particularly like to do this for material for which the terms of re-use are not clear, or where its clear that material must exist, but not obvious how to get it or re-use it. ...
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.
