Projects

The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network is a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN is the place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own.

Those familiar with freshmeat, CPAN or PyPI can think of CKAN as providing an analogous service for open knowledge.

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The Open Definition site maintains a set of definitions of 'openness' in relation to content, data and services.

The Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) sets out principles to define the 'open' in open knowledge. The term knowledge is used broadly and it includes all forms of data, content such as music, films or books as well any other types of information.

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Open Data Commons provides legal solutions for open data, including the Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) and the Open Database License (ODbL).

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Open Shakespeare aims to provide the complete works of Shakespeare, along with textual apparatus (introduction, notes) and tools (concordance, search, annotation, word frequency, etc.) all in an open form.

This material is delivered in an open knowledge 'package' that allows for easy deployment, redistribution and reuse.

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Create 'factlets' — places, people, events — and string them together into 'threads' at the click of a button. Automatically visualize the results temporally and spatially, search by any attribute, automatically import Wikipedia articles and much more ...

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Find out where UK public finance goes with this open-source, embeddable web application. Explore the data using maps, timelines, and best of breed visualisation technologies.

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KnowledgeForge aims to provide you with the facilities and tools you need to work on open knowledge projects. It is run on KForge, a system for managing users, projects and the services associated with projects such as websites, wikis, task-trackers, and repositories.

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The Open Economics project provides open content, data and code related to Economics. This includes a 'data store' and a service to graph data.

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The Public Domain Works DB is an open registry of artistic works that are in the public domain. It is currently focused on books and sound recordings.

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Open Text Book is a registry of textbooks which are free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute - from mathematics to geology, from engineering to art history.

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