Puneet,
thanks for posting this.
All,
this is perfect timing to further our own understanding on openness. We
are working on this from several ends and as we do, notice that there
are many different takes on openness. There are for example noticeable
differences in how the OGC uses the term openness when it comes to
standards development. But they are not wrong in how they use it, just
different. The same applies to OpenStreetMap who also have a broad
understanding of what they mean with Openness. Even the public
administration starts to develop and understanding of what openness
could mean. This again proves that truth, just like time are relative.
For a very short definition check this OSGeo page:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/The_definition_of_Open_in_OGC,_OSGeo_and_OSM
In order to better communicate which aspect of openness OSGeo promotes
and how it relates to OGC activities the OGC has asked us whether we
would be interested to produce a joint white paper. We discussed this at
a board of directors meeting last year but never finished this because
it is quite an involved topic. At the last meeting we decided that it
makes sense to involve the whole community in defining what this is. To
this effect we have created a Wiki page with a first shot at this White
Paper. It also contains the take that the OGC has developed around
openness and how this relates to us. The page is available here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:Open_Source_and_Open_Standards
Please go to this page and hack it. Write whatever you think is relevant
from our point of view. We should not change the OGC's definition, even
if we feel that it is not complete or differs from our understanding.
The idea is to allow for different takes. Diversity makes the world go
round. It would be great if we could come up with a comprehensive paper
that we can publish together with the OGC. It will always be a
compromise but it will show that we have matured as an organization to a
level where we can interact strategically.
Apart from this please also feel free to maintain our own definition of
Openness which has been defined here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Openness
If my presentation for FOSS4G gets accepted this might also become a
presentation which we can give at SOTM, FOSS4G and the Denver OGC TC
Meeting.
Have fun,
Arnulf
On 03/16/2011 04:24 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:
## Open Government
Announcing a workshop on *Open Government: Open Data, Open Source
and Open Standards* organized jointly by [Dr Hanif. Rahemtulla][hr],
Horizon Digital Economy Research and [Puneet Kishor][pk], Science
Fellow, Creative Commons, in conjunction with the annual Open Source
GIS Conference, June 21, 2011, Nottingham, United Kingdom. The
workshop will be held at the [School of Geography/Centre for
Geospatial Science][cg]> at the University of Nottingham.
[hr]: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/people/Hanif.Rahemtulla
[pk]: http://punkish.org
[cg]: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/index.aspx
This meeting follows and builds upon the [Law and the GeoWeb][lg]
workshop on intellectual property issues with geographic data in the
internet era, colocated with the annual meeting of Association of
American Geographers, April 11, 2011 at the campus of Microsoft
Research, Seattle, Washington.
[lg]: http://punkish.org/geoweb/index.html
The *Open Government* workshop will bring together speakers from
across industry, research and academia to contribute towards some of
the fundamental theoretical and technical questions emerging in the
Open Data space (i.e., how to mark up and release open data;
licensing models for governments and how to interface them to other
open source and commercial licensing regimes; conflicts between data
protection and transparency and structuring access to data by
different groups). The session will be a series of presented papers
with a lively explorative session which will inform, provoke and
encourage discussion.
Proceedings of the Seattle and Nottingham workshops along with
selected longer papers will be published in a special issue of the
open-access [International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure
Research][ij] published by the Joint Research Centre of the European
Commission.
[ij]: http://ijsdir.jrc.ec.europa.eu
## Speakers
Speakers reflect the broad spectrum of constituencies in the Open
Data domain from across academia, research and the industrial
sector. The following speakers are confirmed:
* Professor David Martin, School of Geography, University of
Southampton
* Professor Derek McAuley, Director of Horizon Digital Economy
Research, University of Nottingham
* Dr. Peter Mooney, Department of Computer Science, University of
Maynooth
* Dr. Richard Mortier, Horizon Digital Economy Research,
University of Nottingham
* Dr. Catherine Mulligan, Horizon Digital Economy Research,
University of Nottingham
* Mr Ian Holt, Senior Technical Product Manager, Ordnance Survey,
Southampton
* Dr. Chris Parker, GeoVation and Community Propositions, Ordnance
Survey, Southampton
## Contact
Registration for the Open Source GIS conference and workshop will
commence shortly (see below for conference website). for further
information please contact either [Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla][eh],
Horizon Digital Economy Research at the University of Nottingham or
[Puneet Kishor][ep], Science Fellow, Creative Commons.
[eh]: mailto:[email protected]
[ep]: mailto:[email protected]
## Further Reference
* [OSGIS Conference][oc], University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
* [Law and the GeoWeb][lg], Microsoft Research, Seattle, USA
[oc]: http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
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