OKF enters 6th Year
The Open Knowledge Foundation has published their Annual report 2008-2009, for the reporting period May 2008 to April 2009.
The Annual report Introduction states:
“The Open Knowledge Foundation is now entering its 6th year. The year gone has seen many exciting developments for open knowledge. The new US president Barack Obama has helped put openness up the political agenda in the US and internationally. The announcement of data.gov, a registry for US Federal Government datasets is an important exemplar for those publishing open government data. There is growing recognition of the value of openness in other fields. There has been a significant increase in the number of explicitly open datasets - from library metadata to bioinformatics.
The Foundation has had a busy year of events - from our annual Open Knowledge Conference to smaller workshops on visualisation, public information and open science. We became a member of the EU funded Communia network and organised the 5th workshop - which was attended by representatives of national governments, the European Commission, and international institutions such as WIPO and the UN.
We've also made significant progress on several of our projects. The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN), a registry of collections of open content and data, now has over 500 packages. We launched Open Milton, a European Open Data Inventory, and developed an Open Software Service Definition (OSSD) providing a standard for openness in network-based software services. We've also adopted Open Data Commons - which provides tools for making data open. We're currently in the process of putting together Working Groups to undertake and direct work in different domains.
We're very pleased to welcome several new people to the Foundation. Hans Rosling, Director of Gapminder, and Chris Corbin, European public sector information expert at ePSIplus, have both joined our Advisory Board. James Casbon, expert in bioinformatics coding and openness, Jordan Hatcher, open knowledge lawyer extraordinaire, Becky Hogge, ex-Director of the Open Rights Group, and new media guru Paula Le Dieu have all joined our Board.
Yet another enormous thank you to all of you who have participated in discussions and events, contributed to projects, helped with bits of code and cunning suggestions, and have otherwise donated time, space, and energy to keeping the Foundation ticking - we're powered on your input and ideas!
The Open Knowledge FoundationMay 2009”
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