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Get your ticket for OKFest TODAY! Early bird closes August 8th. 7 Aug 2012 | 12:37 pm
The excitement is mounting as plans for OKFest move into the final planning stages. As Kat Braybrooke reports, hundreds of OKFest tickets have been snapped up already. The early bird ticket deadline i...
Open Science Hackday – with donuts, the Queen, and a whole lot of rain… 24 Jul 2012 | 11:52 am
It was a day of ‘firsts’ for the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Science working group at their summer hackday on Saturday: the first hackday to be held by the group in the Centre for Creative Collab...
Working Group Response to Royal Society Science as a Public Enterprise 10 Jul 2012 | 05:56 pm
Those of you following #openscience news over the last few weeks won’t have failed to notice that the Royal Society in the UK recently released their Science as a Public Enterprise Report in strong su...
Join the Open Science Hackday on 7 July 14 Jun 2012 | 12:02 am
The next OKFN Open Science hackday will be taking place in a few weeks and it would be great to see plenty of open-science folk either in London or online from wherever you are in the world! When: Sat...
Announcing the Open Science Podcasts 31 May 2012 | 03:24 pm
Since the start of the Panton Principles, we have had several different Panton Discussions with different people talking about Open Data in Science. A couple of them have been recorded on video. These...
Meet the Members: Carl Boettiger, Sridhar Gutam and Matt Jones 22 Apr 2012 | 11:57 pm
The Open Science Working Group has over 350 mailing list members and many have chosen to be listed as official members here on the website. You can find a complete alphabetical list at the bottom of t...
Meet the OKFN Open Science Working Group 22 Apr 2012 | 11:56 pm
When the Working Group on Open Data in Science was launched back in 2009, our activities were focused very much around open data. Flagship projects included the Panton Principles for open data in scie...
Introducing our Panton Fellows! 3 Apr 2012 | 04:31 pm
Cross-posted from the main OKFN blog. The Panton Fellowships are a new initiative to support scientists who promote open access to data. Funded by Open Society Foundations, the Open Knowledge Found...
A Researcher’s Response to IPO Consultation on Text Mining Copyright Exception 22 Mar 2012 | 05:29 am
Personal experience and evidence from Professor Peter Murray-Rust. I have been involved in developing and deploying text and other forms of data mining in chemistry and related sciences (e.g. biosc...
Working Group Response to IPO Consultation on Text Mining Copyright Exception 22 Mar 2012 | 05:21 am
The Intellectual Property Office of the UK government have been running a public consultation on changes to copyright law recommended in the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth in 20...
