[ELECTRON] FW: Open Knowledge Scotland event 13 May

[Simon Yuill]

Open Knowledge Scotland

Where: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
When: Thursday May 13th, 3-7pm (coffee & registration from 2:30)
How much: Free
Register:  http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/


This event brings together interested parties from across the open
knowledge spectrum based in Scottish educational institutions, Scottish
research organisations, Scottish local and national government, and
members of the public for the purposes of teaching, learning and discussion.

Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a
wide range of areas from governance to science, culture to technology.
Opening up access to digital content can radically increase access and
reuse, improving transparency, fostering innovation and increasing
societal welfare.

In addition to high profile initiatives such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap
and the Human Genome Project, there is enormous growth among open
knowledge projects and communities at all levels. Moreover, last year,
the UK government began opening up their data on the Linked Data cloud
through data.gov.uk.

In academia, open access to both publications and data has been
gathering momentum, and similar calls to open up learning materials have
been heard in education. This gathering flood of open data and content
is the creator and driver of massive technological change.

During the event we will consider questions such as: What data can be
made available? Are there privacy or ethical concerns? How can we
connect it together? How can we use it to collaborate and share our
work? How can Scotland benefit from open data? Are there public
implications for entrepreneurial or 'big business' participation?

In the spirit of openness and exchange we invite participants to offer
contributions on any aspect of creating, publishing or reusing open
content in accordance with  http://opendefinition.org/ .

We hope that this event provides an open forum for discussion amongst
researchers and practitioners about open knowledge in Scotland.

Potential topics for discussion could include:

¨       Open educational resources and tools

¨       Business models for open content

¨       Semantic Web and Linked Data in relation to open knowledge

¨       Platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and
curating          open knowledge

¨       Open Licensing, Legal Tools and the Public Domain

¨       Open government data and content (public sector information)

¨       Supporting scientific workflows with open knowledge models

¨       Open models for scientific innovation, funding and publication
        ('open-access')

¨       Tools for analysing and visualizing open data

We welcome contributions in the form of short 10 minute lightning talks,
posters or demonstrations. If you are interested please register your
attendance and optional short talk at: http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/

We look forward to meeting with you soon.

The Open Knowledge Scotland Team