[BOAI] Open Knowledge Scotland event

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the JISC-Repositories list.  --Peter Suber.]


Open Knowledge Scotland

Where: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
When: Thursday May 13th, 3-7pm (coffee & registration from 2:30)
How much: Free
Register:  http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/


This event brings together interested parties from across the open knowledge
spectrum based in Scottish educational institutions, Scottish research
organisations, Scottish local and national government, and members of the
public for the purposes of teaching, learning and discussion.

Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a wide
range of areas from governance to science, culture to technology. Opening up
access to digital content can radically increase access and reuse, improving
transparency, fostering innovation and increasing societal welfare.

In addition to high profile initiatives such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and
the Human Genome Project, there is enormous growth among open knowledge
projects and communities at all levels. Moreover, last year, the UK
government began opening up their data on the Linked Data cloud through
data.gov.uk.

In academia, open access to both publications and data has been gathering
momentum, and similar calls to open up learning materials have been heard in
education. This gathering flood of open data and content is the creator and
driver of massive technological change.

During the event we will consider questions such as: What data can be made
available? Are there privacy or ethical concerns? How can we connect it
together? How can we use it to collaborate and share our work? How can
Scotland benefit from open data? Are there public implications for
entrepreneurial or ‘big business’ participation?

In the spirit of openness and exchange we invite participants to offer
contributions on any aspect of creating, publishing or reusing open content
in accordance with  http://opendefinition.org/ .

We hope that this event provides an open forum for discussion amongst
researchers and practitioners about open knowledge in Scotland.

Potential topics for discussion could include:

¨       Open educational resources and tools

¨       Business models for open content

¨       Semantic Web and Linked Data in relation to open knowledge

¨       Platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and curating
            open knowledge

¨       Open Licensing, Legal Tools and the Public Domain

¨       Open government data and content (public sector information)

¨       Supporting scientific workflows with open knowledge models

¨       Open models for scientific innovation, funding and publication
   ('open-access')

¨       Tools for analysing and visualizing open data

We welcome contributions in the form of short 10 minute lightning talks,
posters or demonstrations. If you are interested please register your
attendance and optional short talk at: http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/

We look forward to meeting with you soon.

The Open Knowledge Scotland Team



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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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