Communications
This is a page to document communications between the OKFN and other projects/organisations.
Contents
Open Knowledge Definition / Web Buttons
This section is for communications to organisations who make available material that is open in accordance with the Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) - i.e. free to use, reuse and redistribute - to see if they: (a) know about the OKD and (b) might be interested in displaying one of the Open Knowledge or Open Data web buttons.
There are some template letters available on the OKD resources page.
To contact
http://pleiades.stoa.org/ -- ancient geodata
List of chemistry databases: http://depth-first.com/articles/2007/05/07/free-chemistry-databases-on-the-web-creating-a-comprehensive-guide
first might want to look at Murray-Rust's post: Repositories or Lists of Open Molecules
- Open Context
- Wikipedia
- Mutopia -- contacted by RP in early 2007 and need to refollow up
- PLoS
Worth going through ckan.net. See also the dataset listings on the Linking Open Data dataset page and MIT's Simile project RDF data collection.
To follow up
Awaiting response
- Appropedia
- Jonathan in touch with Chris on 2008-08-09
- Citizendium
- Jonathan in touch with Larry on 2008-08-09
- who: Jonathan
- initial e-mail: 2007-08-29
- who: Jonathan
- initial e-mail: 2007-08-29
- follow up 2008-03-18
- who: Jonathan
- initial e-mail: 2007-08-29
- response 2007-08-30: will bring it up at next meeting
- follow up 2007-09-01
The 2000 U.S. Census: 1 Billion RDF Triples
- who: Jonathan
- initial e-mail: 2007-08-29
- response 2007-08-30: added to govtrack, and will add to census
- follow-up 2007-09-01
- who: Jonathan
- date: 2007-08-30
- Open Street Map
- who: Jonathan
- date: 2007-08-30
- initial e-mail
- response 2007-09-02: already have CC button
- follow up 2007-09-02
- Sound Transit
- who: Jonathan
- contacted 2007-07-04
- as yet no response
- follow up 2007-09-09
- Music Brainz
- who: Jonathan
- contacted 2007-07-04
- as yet no response
- follow up 2007-09-09
- follow up 2008-03-28
- Biomed Central
- who: Jonathan
- initial e-mail 2007-07-04.
- response 2007-07-05: say they do not reciprocate links
- follow-up 2007-07-06
- response 2007-07-09: passed message on to marketing department, they will contact us
- follow up 2007-09-09
- Connexions
- who: Jonathan
- initial e-mail: 2007-07-04
- response 2007-07-04: forwarded message on to executive team
- follow up 2007-09-09
- Freedict
- who: Jonathan
- contacted 2007-07-14
- as yet no response
- follow up 2007-09-09
- Choral Domain Public Library
- who: Jonathan
- contacted 2007-07-20
- as yet no response
- follow up 2007-09-09
- follow up 2008-03-28
Response
Button displayed
- Open Dictionary
- Jonathan in contact 2008-08-07
- buttons diplayed 2008-08-09
- who: Jonathan
- 2007-09-10: Yves wrote saying he had added the open knowledge button to the dbtune page
- who: Jonathan
- initial e-mail: 2007-08-29
- response 2007-08-31: have added open content button to disclaimer page
- AMEE
- who: Jonathan
- contacted 2007-08-24
- response 2007-08-24: open knowledge button displayed on blog and wiki
- dbpedia
- who: Jonathan
- contacted 2007-07-14
- response 2007-07-14: say they will display OK button
- response 2007-07-18: open knowledge button displayed
npemaps and their post-code data: http://www.npemap.org.uk/data/
Button not displayed
- Geonames
- who: Jonathan
- contacted 2007-07-04
- response 2007-07-06: no mention of buttons
- follow up 2007-07-06
- response 2007-07-07: prefer not to have too many buttons as too confusing for user
- follow up 2007-07-29
Contact Re. Blog Posts etc
http://iassistblog.org/?p=80: blog post about open data stores.