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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 name= Open Knowledge: About|url = https://okfn.org/"about/|website = okfn.org|access-dateokf" = 25 October 2015}}</ref> It was founded by [[Rufus Pollock]] on 20 May 2004 and launched on 24 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}}</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 name= Open Knowledge: About - Legal notice|url = https://okfn.org/"about/|website = okfn.org|access-dateokf" = 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=https://okfn.org/members/jpekel/ |title=Joris Pekel | Extended Profiles | 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/https://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" />
== People ==
[[Renata Ávila Pinto]] joined as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Open Knowledge Foundation in October 2021.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://blog.okfn.org/2021/10/12/a-new-ceo-for-open-knowledge-foundation-renata-avila/ | title=A new CEO for Open Knowledge Foundation – Renata Ávila| date=2021-10-12}}</ref> From February 2019 to August 2020, [[Catherine Stihler]] served as CEO. She left the Open Knowledge Foundation to become the CEO of [[Creative Commons]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://blog.okfn.org/2020/07/09/catherine-stihler-to-leave-open-knowledge-foundation-to-lead-creative-commons/ | title=Catherine Stihler to leave Open Knowledge Foundation to lead Creative Commons| date=2020-07-09}}</ref> Between 2015–2017 Pavel Richter took on the role of CEO of Open Knowledge Foundation. Pavel was formerly Executive Director of [[Wikimedia Deutschland]].
The Open Knowledge Foundation Advisory Council includes people from the areas of [[open access]], [[open data]], [[open content]], [[open science]], [[data visualization]] and [[digital rights]]. In 2015, it consisted of:<ref>{{Cite web|title = Open Knowledge: Advisory Council|url = https://okfn.org/about/advisory-council/|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140714223530/https://okfn.org/about/advisory-council/|url-status = dead|archive-date = 14 July 2014|website = okfn.org|access-date = 31 October 2015}}</ref>
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 = https://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 ===
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>
* 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}}</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]],<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>{{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|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>
===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<ref>{{cite web|url = http://sophiekershaw.wordpress.com/author/sophiekershaw/|title = Sophie Kershaw | The Stilettoed Mathematician|publisher = Sophiekershaw.wordpress.com|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref> and Ross Mounce.<ref>{{cite web|last = Mounce|first = Ross|title = CV|url = http://rossmounce.co.uk/cv/|work = Ross Mounce|access-date = 1 November 2015|date = 2012-06-06}}</ref> 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<ref>{{cite web|url = http://scholarlyskywritings.wordpress.com/|title = scholarly skywritings|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref>, and Peter Kraker.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://science20.wordpress.com/|title = Science and the Web|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://pantonprinciples.org/panton-fellowships/|title = Panton Principles: Panton Fellowships|access-date = 1 November 2015|date = 2012-01-12}}</ref>
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