Shuttleworth Fellowship - Activity in the Last 3 Months
As part of my Shuttleworth Fellowship I'm preparing quarterly reports on what I've been up to. So, herewith are some some highlights from the last 3 months. (Previous update - Sept-Dec)
Talks and Events
- Talk at CCSR in Manchester about Open Data
- Talk at Cambridge Geek Night
- Workshop at Dev8D
- Talk at EPSI Platform Berlin - Open Data: Apps for Everyone?
- Talk at British Library
- Talk at Managing Public Sector Information
- Talk at NCVO Annual Conference
- Panel session at JISC Annual Conference
Projects
- The Annotator (and AnnotateIt.org)
- The last 3 months from mid-December until now have seen intensive work on the Annotator software and we have now v1.0 ready to go (announce imminent). As well as the javascript library whose development I have planned and overseen, I have personally developed the python-based Annotator store webapp deployed at AnnotateIt.org. We now plan to launch the system and work with partners to integrate and scale up.
- Open Shakespeare Annotation Sprint
- CKAN Software and CKAN Sites
- CKAN v1.3 released
- New CKAN wiki and CKAN site
- CKAN tutorial at Dev8d
- DataGM (Data Greater Manchester) launched using CKAN
- http://data.hri.fi using CKAN with Alpha and Beta released
- More community instances
- http://OpenDataSearch.org/ (blog announce)
- http://PublicData.eu/
- Where Does My Money Go? / Open Spending
- Open Economics Working Group
- YourTopia - Development beyond GDP - Blog Post - Entry in World Bank Apps competition
- http://energy.publicdata.eu/ - Putting Europe's Energy Targets in Context
- User Guide for CKAN
- Planning OKCon
General
- German Chapter of OKF formally established
- Open Government Data - several meetings of the UK Public Sector Transparency Board
- As Coder is for Code, X is for Data
- PyWordpress - Python Lib for Wordpress
- Even more items in the OKFN Autumn 2010 Newsletter