[Bsb-forum:342] Fwd: [Communia] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) in London on 24th (fwd)

[Mustafa Akgul]

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From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:32 PM
Subject: [Communia] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) in London on 24th
April 2010
To: communia <communia at lists.communia-project.eu>


Hi,

A quick reminder that this year's Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) is
taking place in London on 24th April 2010 - in 10 days time! There are
still tickets left - and you can register at the following link:

 http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/

Speakers and sessions include:

 * 'State of the Nation' Keynotes:
    - Matthias Schindler, Wikimedia (Germany) on 'Bibliographic Data
and the Public Domain'
    - Glyn Moody, on the 'Post-Analogue World'
    - Peter Murray-Rust, on 'Recent Developments in Open Science'
    - Chris Taggart, on 'Open Local Government Data'
    - S=F6ren Auer, on 'Linked Open Data'
    - Jordan Hatcher, on 'Open Licensing for Data'
 * Ideas and Culture with talks on analyzing 'Dickens Letters' and
'Making the Physical from the Digital'
 * Open Bibliographic Information with talks on 'The Itinerant Poetry
Library' and the 'Journal Commons'
 * Community Driven Research with talks on 'Climate data' and 'Open
Archaeology'
 * Civic Information with talks on 'Using Open Government Data to
Profile Politicians' and the 'Straight Choice'
 * Open Government Data and PSI in the EU which looks at the current
state of play in France, Norway, Germany, the UK and elsewhere
 * Tools with talks on 'Large-scale data handling and revisioning'
with the Genome, Ontowiki, CKAN and more
 * Open Data and the Semantic Web with talks about South Korean
DBPedia and Thesaurus Management Tool =91Pool Party=92
 * Open Data in International Development including talks from
PublishWhatYouFund and on OpenStreetMap in Haiti

Further details are available at:


http://blog.okfn.org/2010/04/14/okcon-2010-nearly-here-24th-april-2010-in-l=
ondon/
 http://www.okfn.org/okcon/programme

More information:

 * Main conference page: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
 * FAQ: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/faq

If you have any questions please email Sara Wingate-Gray at
sara.gray at okfn.org.

We look forward to seeing people there!

All the best,





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Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://blog.okfn.org

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