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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>{{Cite web|title = Open Knowledge: About|url = https://okfn.org/about/|website = okfn.org|access-date = 25 October 2015}}</ref> It was founded by [[Rufus Pollock]] on 20 May 2004 and launched on 24 May 2004<ref>{{cite web |url = httphttps://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}}</ref> in [[Cambridge]], UK. It is incorporated in [[England]] and [[Wales]] as a [[private company limited by guarantee|company limited by guarantee]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Open Knowledge: About - Legal notice|url = https://okfn.org/about/|website = okfn.org|access-date = 28 July 2019}}</ref> Between May 2016 and May 2019 the organisation was named ''Open Knowledge International'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Open Knowledge International – our new name!|date=23 May 2016|url=https://blog.okfn.org/2016/05/23/open-knowledge-international-our-new-name/}}</ref> but decided in May 2019 to return to ''Open Knowledge Foundation''.<ref>{{cite web|title=For a fair, free and open future: celebrating 15 years of the Open Knowledge Foundation|date=20 May 2019|url=https://blog.okfn.org/2019/05/20/for-a-fair-free-and-open-future-celebrating-15-years-of-the-open-knowledge-foundation/}}</ref>

== Aims ==

[[File:130413 Hume Norham London Wiki 236.jpg|thumb|[[Joris Pekel]]<ref>{{cite web |author=GitHub Account Name jpekel |url=httphttps://okfn.org/members/jpekel/ |title=Joris Pekel &#124; Extended Profiles &#124; Open Knowledge Foundation |publisher=Okfn.org |date=2011-06-17 |access-date=2013-11-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113071007/httphttps://okfn.org/members/jpekel/ |archive-date=13 November 2013}}</ref> presenting at GLAM-WIKI 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2013/Schedule#S3B |title=GLAM-WIKI 2013/Schedule - Wikimedia UK |publisher=Uk.wikimedia.org |access-date=2013-11-14}}</ref>]]

The aims of Open Knowledge Foundation are:<ref name="about-okf" />

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Many of Open Knowledge Foundation's projects are technical in nature. Its most prominent project, [[CKAN]], is used by many of the world's governments to host open catalogues of data that their countries possess.<ref>{{cite web|last=data.gov.uk|title=Project Info: Who is Involved with the project?|url=http://data.gov.uk/about/|publisher=HM Government|quote=These include the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN): CKAN stores the catalogue behind data.gov.uk and a growing number of open data registries around the world.}}</ref>

The organisation tends to support its aims by hosting infrastructure for semi-independent projects to develop. This approach to organising was hinted as one of its earliest projects was a project management service called KnowledgeForge, which runs on the [[KForge]] platform. ''KnowledgeForge'' allows sectoral [[working group]]s to have space to manage projects related to open knowledge. More widely, the project infrastructure includes both technical and [[Face-to-face (philosophy)|face-to-face]] aspects. The organisation hosts several dozen mailing lists<ref>{{cite web|last = Open Knowledge Foundation|title = lists.okfn.org Mailing Lists|url = httphttps://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref> for virtual discussion, utilises [[IRC]] for real-time communications and also hosts events.

=== Advocacy ===

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Open Knowledge Foundation is an active partner with organisations working in similar areas, such as open educational resources.<ref>{{cite web|last = Open Educational Resources Commons|title = About|url = http://www.oercommons.org/about|access-date = 1 November 2015|quote = Strategic Development and Outreach Partners ... Open Knowledge Foundation}}</ref>

Open Knowledge Foundation has produced the [[Open Knowledge Definition]], an attempt to clarify some of the ambiguity surrounding the terminology of openness,<ref>{{cite web|url = http://opendefinition.org/|title = Open Definition|publisher = Open Definition|date = 2011-06-17|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref> as well as the [[Open Software Service Definition]].<ref>{{cite web|url = httphttps://blog.okfn.org/2008/07/14/open-software-service-definition-launched/|title = Open Software Service Definition Launched|access-date = 1 November 2015|date = 2008-07-14}}</ref> It also supported the development of the [[Open Database License]] (ODbL).<ref>{{cite web |last = Creative Commons|title = CC Salon Berlin and openeverything focus – Feb. 26|url = https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12919|access-date = 29 October 2015|date = 2009-02-23}}</ref>

Outside of technology, Open Knowledge Foundation plays a role in advocating for openness broadly. This includes supporting the drafting of reports, facilitating consultation<ref>{{cite web|last = Open Society Foundations|title = Public Feedback Solicited on Access to Information and Open Government Data|url = http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information/focus/communication/news/access-consultation-20100910|access-date = 1 November 2015|date = September 2010|quote = Information Program grantee Access Info Europe, together with the Open Knowledge Foundation, are holding a public consultation on open government data and the right of access to information.|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110108145856/http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information/focus/communication/news/access-consultation-20100910|archive-date = 8 January 2011|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last = Electronic Frontier Foundation|title = Digital Rights Management: A failure in the developed world, a danger to the developing world|url = https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-rights-management-failure-developed-world-danger-developing-world|access-date = 1 November 2015|date = 2005-03-23}}</ref> and producing guides.<ref>{{cite web|last = Dietrich|first = Daniel|title = Open Data Manual|url = http://opendatamanual.org/|access-date = 1 November 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130827053435/http://opendatamanual.org/|archive-date = 27 August 2013|url-status = dead}}</ref>

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=== Technical ===

[[File:Geo-datos.jpeg|frame|Banner for the [[Geodata]] project in [[Spanish language|Spanish]]]] [[File:OpenGLAM Logo.svg|thumb|OpenGLAM logo]]

The foundation places a strong interest in the use of [[open source]] technologies. Its software projects are hosted on [[GitHub]], which utilises the [[Git (software)|Git]] [[version control software]]. Some of the projects are listed below:<ref>{{cite web|url = httphttps://www.okfn.org/projects|title = projects - The Open Knowledge Foundation|access-date = 1 November 2015}} Open Knowledge Projects</ref>

*[[CKAN]], a tool that provides store for metadata. This enables governments to quickly and cheaply provide a catalogue of their data.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Feature Tour {{!}} ckan - The open source data portal software|url = http://ckan.org/features/|website = ckan.org|access-date = 1 November 2015|date = 2012-03-28}}</ref>

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* 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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://openbiblio.net/|title = Open bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data &#124; 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]],<ref>{{cite web|url = http://bibliographica.org/|title = Open bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data|work = Bibliographica|date = 2010-05-20|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref> [[Public Domain Works]],<ref>{{cite web|url = http://publicdomainworks.net/|title = Home|work = Public Domain Works|access-date = 1 November 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151025023434/http://www.publicdomainworks.net/|archive-date = 25 October 2015|url-status = dead}}</ref> [[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>httphttps://okfn.org/get-involved/working-groups/</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|date=31 January 2014}}</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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== External links ==

{{Commons category-inline|Open Knowledge}}

*{{Official website|httphttps://www.okfn.org/ }}

*[http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/okfn/open-knowledge-foundation-history A self-published history of the Open Knowledge Foundation]