[Geoinquiets Barcelona] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) in Londonon 24th April 2010

[Roset, Rafael]

No és també el dissabte 24 la propera reunió de geoinquiets ?

Rafael Roset
Responsable de Cartoteca Digital
Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya
Parc de Montjuïc
08038 Barcelona
+34 93 567 15 00 ext. 3250
 

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From: barcelona-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:barcelona-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Oscar Fonts
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:56 PM
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Subject: [Geoinquiets Barcelona] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) in Londonon 24th April 2010

¿Algún geo.free.ki interesado ir a pasar un sábado a Londres?
Yo no puedo ir, pero me gustaría que alguien me lo contara. :)


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From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
Date: 2010/4/14
Subject: [Geodata] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) in London on 24th April 2010
To: geodata <geodata at lists.osgeo.org>


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'
    - Sören 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 'Pool Party'
 * 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-london/
 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

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The Open Knowledge Foundation
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