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{{short description|Non-profit organisation promoting free and reusable access to knowledge}}
{{redirect|Open Knowledge|the concept|Open knowledge}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Open Knowledge Foundation
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| access-date = 27 April 2011
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| key_people = [[Rufus Pollock]], [[Catherine Stihler]]
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== Aims ==
[[File:130413 Hume Norham London Wiki 236.jpg|thumb|[[Joris Pekel]]<ref>{{cite web |author=GitHub Account Name jpekel |url=http://okfn.org/members/jpekel/ |title=Joris Pekel | Extended Profiles | Open Knowledge Foundation |publisher=Okfn.org |date=2011-06-17 |accessdate=2013-11-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113071007/http://okfn.org/members/jpekel/ |archivedate=13 November 2013
The aims of Open Knowledge Foundation are:<ref name="about-okf" />
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== People ==
[[Catherine Stihler]] joined as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Open Knowledge Foundation in February 2019.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://blog.okfn.org/2018/11/30/catherine-stihler-appointed-new-ceo-of-open-knowledge-international/ | title=Catherine Stihler appointed new CEO of Open Knowledge International| date=2018-11-30}}</ref> Catherine served as CEO until August 2020 when 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
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|accessdate = 31 October 2015}}</ref>
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* [[Open Government Data]]
* [[Open Humanities]]
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* [[Open Product Data]]
* [[Open Science]]
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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 = http://www.okfn.org/projects|title = projects - The Open Knowledge Foundation|accessdate = 1 November 2015}} Open Knowledge Projects</ref>
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* Datahub,<ref>{{cite web|url = http://datahub.io/|title = datahub.io|publisher = datahub.io|date = 2006-06-23|accessdate = 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 |accessdate=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|accessdate = 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|accessdate = 1 November 2015}}</ref>
* 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|accessdate = 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>http://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
* Open Economics<ref>{{Cite web|title = Open Economics|url = http://openeconomics.net|website = openeconomics.net|accessdate = 1 November 2015}}</ref>
* Open Knowledge Forums<ref>{{Cite web|title = Open Knowledge Forums|url = https://discuss.okfn.org|website = discuss.okfn.org|accessdate = 1 November 2015}}</ref>
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=== Events ===
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|accessdate = 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/|accessdate = 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|accessdate = 1 November 2015|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023413/http://network.nature.com/groups/scivis/forum/topics/1498|archivedate = 4 March 2016
Annually, Open Knowledge Foundation supports [[International Open Data Day]]
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== External links ==
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*{{Official website|http://www.okfn.org/ }}
*[http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/okfn/open-knowledge-foundation-history A self-published history of the Open Knowledge Foundation]
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