Call for PSI Research Papers
Source: The Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Conference 2010 publishes call for papers for the research track
Cambridge: 5 August 2009
The Open Knowledge Foundation has published a call for papers for the Open Knowledge Conference 2010 research track. OKCon 2010 will be the fourth Open knowledge Foundation Conference and is scheduled to take place in London during March 2010. The OKCon call for papers will close on the 15 December 2009. The announcement states:
“Opening up knowledge has an enormous potential to benefit society in the areas of technology, culture and science. In addition to the most well-know open knowledge projects such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Data.gov or OpenCourseware there is a very large number of smaller wikis, blogs, datasets and publications that make up the open knowledge universe. The Annual Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) exists to bring together scientists, policy-makers, practitioners and ordinary citizens from across this open knowledge spectrum for a day of talks, discussions and workshops in which to share and discuss tools, technologies and strategies.
Topics
OKCon 2010 is an interdisciplinary conference on all topics related to the creation and exchange of open knowledge -- from sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Technology
- Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies for representing and interlinking open knowledge
- Platforms, methods and tools for creating, sharing and curating open knowledge
- Light-weight, adaptive interaction models
- Open, decentralized social network applications
Society
- Licensing of open-knowledge
- Incentive and gratification models for open-knowledge contributors
Culture and Education
- The Public Domain
- Open licensing for cultural materials
- Open educational tools and resources
- Business models for open content
Science
- Making scientific data open
- Supporting scientific workflows with open knowledge models
- Open models for scientific innovation, funding and publications (i.e. open access)”