{"id":2968,"date":"2007-09-22T16:46:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deptfordtv.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/22\/open-knowledge-conference-limehouse-london-17th-march-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-09-22T16:46:17","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T16:46:17","slug":"open-knowledge-conference-limehouse-london-17th-march-2007-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dorothea.tv\/?p=2968","title":{"rendered":"open knowledge conference, limehouse, london, 17th march 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"
                    Open Knowledge 1.0<\/a>\n            Saturday 17th March 2007, 1100-1830\n                    Limehouse Town Hall\n                http:\/\/www.okfn.org\/okcon\/\n          Organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation\n\n  * Programme: http:\/\/www.okfn.org\/okcon\/programme\/\n  * Registration: http:\/\/www.okfn.org\/okcon\/register\/\n  * Wiki: http:\/\/okfn.org\/wiki\/okcon\/<\/pre>\n
  * http:\/\/www.okfn.org\/okcon\/after\/\n\nOn the 17th March 2007 the first all-day Open Knowledge event is taking\nplace in London. This event will bring together individuals and groups\nfrom across the open knowledge spectrum and includes panels on open\nmedia, open geodata and open scientific and civic information.\n\nThe event is open to all but we encourage you to register because space\nis limited. A small entrance fee of \u00ac\u00a310 is planned to help pay for costs\nbut concessions are available.\n\n## Speakers\n\n### Open Scientific and Civic Data\n\n  * Tim Hubbard, leader of the Human Genome Analysis Group at the Sanger\n    Institute\n  * Peter Murray-Rust, Professor in the Unilever Centre for Molecular\n    Science Informatics at Cambridge University\n  * John Sheridan, Head of e-Services at the Office of Public Sector\n    Information\n\n### Geodata and Civic Information\n\n  * Ed Parsons, until recently CTO of the Ordnance Survey\n  * Steve Coast, founder of Open Street Map\n  * Charles Arthur, freeourdata.org.uk and Technology Editor of the\n    Guardian\n\n### Open Media\n\n  * Paula Ledieu, formerly Director of the BBC's Creative Archive\n    project and now Managing Director and Director of Open Media for\n    Magic Lantern Productions\n  * Fleur Knopperts of DocAgora\n  * Zoe Young of http:\/\/www.transmission.cc\/\n\n## Theme: Atomisation and Commercial Opportunity\n\nDiscussions of 'Open Knowledge' often end with licensing wars: legal\narguments, technicalities, and ethics. While those debates rage on, Open\nKnowledge 1.0 will concentrate on two pragmatic and often-overlooked\naspects of Open Knowledge: atomisation and commercial possibility.\n\nAtomisation on a large scale (such as in the Debian 'apt' packaging\nsystem) has allowed large software projects to employ an amazing degree\nof decentralised, collaborative and incremental development. But what\nother kinds of knowledge can be atomised? What are the opportunities and\nproblems of this approach for forms of knowledge other than Software?\n\nAtomisation also holds a key to commercial opportunity: unrestricted\naccess to an ever-changing, atomised landscape of knowledge creates\ncommercial opportunities that are not available with proprietary\napproaches. What examples are there of commercial systems that function\nwith Open Knowledge, and how can those systems be shared?\n\nBringing together open threads from Science, Geodata, Civic Information\nand Media, Open Knowledge 1.0 is an opportunity for people and projects\nto meet, talk and plan things.<\/pre>\n
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Source: http:\/\/www.epsiplus.net\/epsiplus\/news\/open_knowledge_1<\/p>\n
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The Open Knowledge 1 conference demonstrates the value to be gained from opening up data and information.<\/p>\n
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London: Saturday, 17th March 2007<\/h4>\n
The old Lime House Town Hall<\/a> in east London built in a by gone age (1879<\/a>) hosts an Information Age event organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The Open Knowledge Foundation is a not for profit organisation that is incorporated in the United Kingdom as a company limited by guarantee.<\/p>\n
The Open Knowledge Foundation<\/a> exists to promote the openness of knowledge in all its forms, in the belief that freer access to information will have far-reaching social and commercial benefits.<\/p>\n
The event titled Open Knowledge 1 focussed on two pragmatic aspects of Open Knowledge: atomisation and commercial possibility<\/strong>. This theme was developed throughout the day via an interesting programme<\/a> that brought together the Science, Geodata, Civic Information and Media communities. The event concluded with a series of short sharp workshops that covered a broad range of topics.<\/p>\n
The programme opened with an introduction<\/a> from Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Rufus explained the objectives of the Open Knowledge Foundation and then the audience of 80+ people considered and took part in active debate following a series of presentations<\/a> grouped under the headings:<\/p>\n