Schedule: Open data sessions

Has the Great Mapping Revolution really happened yet? or are Google Maps and their ilk merely a prelude to an explosion of geographic data and maps, well, everywhere? Read more.

Science needs instant availability of data published in journals but there are serious barriers to obtaining and reusing this. The presentation reviews the issues and proposes necessary actions. Read more.

Tags are the new links, but do they make sense to anyone but the tagger? What does ubiquity mean for social creatures like us? Can social networks give us a sense of provenance and act as signposts? Read more.

ACAP is a twelve-month project to develop a global standard for owners of online content to communicate access and usage permissions to search engines and other aggregators. Read more.

Presents a major new industry standard for representing licences electronically; and the underlying XML and Web 2.0 technologies used for designing it and the software systems that support it. Read more.

An up-to-the-minute discussion of the key digital rights issues to face technologists in the UK & EU, from the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property to the Television Without Frontiers EU Directive. Read more.

Can we increase the number of people able to participate in established democratic processes by making data open on the Web? Will share experiences learnt from developing TheyWorkForYou.co.nz. Read more.

A project is underway at Google to collect and distribute large scientific datasets using a 21st century "Sneakernet": multi-terabyte disk arrays shipped via FedEx and other common carriers. Read more.

Licensing is more important for keeping things open than keeping them closed. What do we need to know in order to keep our data as open as we want it to be? Read more.

Open Data is more than a religious debate. Increasingly, it makes good business sense. Come along to hear how. Read more.

The media is fascinated with 'user-generated content', but the revolution starts if you use geo-tagging & tools like Twitter to allow 'citizen-journalists' to network for real-time reporting Read more.

This paper describes the experience of developing a 3D virtual world, based on publicly available images and geo-metadata. A practical examination of the hardware, the standards, and user practice. Read more.

Atomisation of software components allows amazing productivity through decentralised, collaborative, incremental development. The potentials and problems of this approach to open data distribution. Read more.

OpenID is a light-weight, decentralised authentication system that is gaining ground with enthusiasts and entrepreneurs alike. Learn how it works and what you can do with it. Read more.

AOL is working hard to be more open. AIM and AIMPages are part of this intiative. This presentation will discuss AIM's vision of "open" and the tools that AIM has provided to the community. Read more.