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'''Open Knowledge Foundation''' ('''OKF''') is a global, non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge, including both content and data.<ref name="about-okf" /> It was founded by [[Rufus Pollock]] on 20 May 2004<ref>{{cite web |url = https://blog.okfn.org/2004/05/24/open-knowledge-foundation-launched/|title = Open Knowledge Foundation launched|work = Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog|access-date = 25 October 2015|date = 2004-05-24 |first1=Rufus |last1=Pollock }}</ref> in [[Cambridge]],
== Aims ==
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* Open Bibliography
* [[The Open Definition|Open Definition]]
* [[Open-design movement|Open Design & Hardware]]
* Open Development
* Open Economics
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* Datahub,<ref>{{cite web|url = http://datahub.io/|title = datahub.io|publisher = datahub.io|date = 2006-06-23|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref> a community-run catalogue of useful sets of data on the Internet. Depending on the type of data (and its conditions of use), Datahub may also be able to store a copy of the data or host it in a database, and provide some basic visualisation tools.
* Frictionless Data,<ref>{{cite web |title=Frictionless Data |url=https://frictionlessdata.io/ |website=Frictionless Data |access-date=2 February 2019}}</ref> a collection of standards and tools for publishing data.
* Open bibliography, broadly construed as efforts to catalogue and build tools for working with and publishing bibliographic resources,<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/jiscexpo/jiscopenbib.aspx|title = Open Bibliography|publisher = JISC|access-date = 1 November 2015|archive-date = 12 July 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140712145750/http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/jiscexpo/jiscopenbib.aspx|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://openbiblio.net/|title = Open bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data | Open Bibliographic Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation|work = Openbiblio.net|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref> with particular emphasis on those works that are in the [[public ___domain]] and public ___domain calculators. Examples include the Bibliographica, Public Domain Works, Open Shakespeare,<ref>{{cite web|url = http://openshakespeare.org/|title = Open Shakespeare|publisher = Open Shakespeare|date = 2012-04-27|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref> Open Text Book<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.opentextbook.org/|title = Open Text Book|access-date = 1 November 2015|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150912064713/http://opentextbook.org/|archive-date = 12 September 2015}}</ref> and [[The Public Domain Review]]<ref>{{cite web|title = ABOUT|url = http://publicdomainreview.org/about/|work = The Public Domain Review|publisher = Open Knowledge Foundation|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref> projects.
* OpenGLAM,<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Open Definition - Open Definition - Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Knowledge|url = http://opendefinition.org|website = opendefinition.org|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref> an initiative that promotes free and open access to [[digital cultural heritage]], held by GLAMs: Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://okfn.org/get-involved/working-groups/ |title=Open Knowledge: Working Groups |access-date=21 May 2021 |archive-date=14 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514084626/https://okfn.org/get-involved/working-groups/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> OpenGLAM is co-funded by the [[European Commission]] as part of the DM2E (Digitised Manuscripts to [[Europeana]]) project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dm2e.eu/community-building/|title=Workpackage 4: Community building|work=DM2E|date=31 January 2014|access-date=19 October 2015|archive-date=3 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003215414/http://dm2e.eu/community-building/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Open Economics<ref>{{Cite web|title = Open Economics|url = http://openeconomics.net|website = openeconomics.net|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref>
* Open Knowledge Forums<ref>{{Cite web|title = Open Knowledge Forums|url = https://discuss.okfn.org|website = discuss.okfn.org|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref>
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Much of the collaboration with other related organisations occurs via events that the foundation hosts.<ref>{{cite web|last = Holloway|first = Michael|title = Public sector information: officially better when shared |url = http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2008/public-sector-information-officially-better-when-shared|publisher = Digital Rights Group|access-date = 1 November 2015|date = March 2008|quote = And if you get excited by material that's free to access, reuse or re-distribute, then please come down to tomorrow's OKCon, for a day of seminars and workshops around the theme of 'Applications, Tools and Services'.}}</ref> Its premier event is the '''Open Knowledge Conference''' (OKCon), which has been held occasionally since 2007.<ref>{{cite web|last = Open Knowledge Foundation|title = About|url = http://okcon.org/about/|access-date = 1 November 2015|quote = The Annual [sic] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon)}}</ref> Other events have been organised within the areas of data visualisation<ref>{{cite web|last = Gehelenborg|first = Nils|title = Workshop on Open Visualization|url = http://network.nature.com/groups/scivis/forum/topics/1498|publisher = Nature Network|access-date = 1 November 2015|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023413/http://network.nature.com/groups/scivis/forum/topics/1498|archive-date = 4 March 2016}}</ref> and free information network infrastructure.<ref>{{cite web|last = Doctorow|first = Cory|title = Free Information Infrastructure event in London next weekend|date = 26 September 2005|url = http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/26/free-information-inf.html|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref>
Annually, Open Knowledge Foundation supports [[International Open Data Day]].
===Panton Principles and Fellowships (Open data in Science)===
The [[Panton Principles]] (for Open Data in Science) in 2010 had large contributions from Open Knowledge people and in 2011 Jonathan Gray and [[Peter Murray-Rust]] successfully obtained funding from OSF for two fellowships, held by Sophie Kershaw and Ross Mounce. In 2013 OKF obtained sponsorship from [[Computer & Communications Industry Association|CCIA]]<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.ccianet.org/|title = ccianet.org|publisher = ccianet.org|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref> for 3 fellowships, which were awarded to Rosemarie Graves,<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/physics/research/eos/rosie-graves|title = Rosie Graves - University of Leicester|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref> Sam Moore, and Peter Kraker.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://pantonprinciples.org/panton-fellowships/|title = Panton Principles: Panton Fellowships|access-date = 1 November 2015|date = 2012-01-12|archive-date = 6 September 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150906164336/http://pantonprinciples.org/panton-fellowships/|url-status = dead}}</ref>
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