5th Communia Workshop
Accessing, Using, Reusing Public Sector Content and Data - When: 26-27th March 2009.
- Where: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, London School of Economics
Programme
26th March
09:30-09:40 - Welcome,
Professor Ian Angell (London School of Economics)
09:40-10:00 - Keynote:
Tom Watson MP (Minister for Digital Engagement and Civil Service Issues),
The government view: progress so far
Video of introduction and keynote
10:00-11:30 - Social and economic value of public sector material
· Jamie Love (Director, Knowledge Ecology International),
Governments and databases
· Rufus Pollock (Fellow, University of Cambridge + Director, Open Knowledge Foundation),
Economics of Public Sector Information
· Tom Steinberg (Director, mySociety),
mySociety
· Michael Nicholson (Deputy Chair, PSI Alliance + Expert Member, APPSI),
PSI: State control or Public freedom?
Video of session
11:30-12:00 - Coffee
12:00-13:30 - Getting the rights right: law and policy
· Mr. Luis Manuel Ferrão (European Commission),
The need for an European approach
· Brian Fitzgerald (Queensland University of Technology),
Access to PSI: Policy, Law and Technology
· Mireille van Eechoud (IViR),
Getting the rights right at the EU level, Does the Public Sector Information Directive Deliver?
· Naomi Korn (JISC SCA Consultant),
In from the cold
Video of session
13:30-14:30 - Lunch
14:30-16:00 - Getting the right tools for the job: technology and communities
· Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski (World Food Programme),
Getting bureaucracies to open up - a pragmatic view
· Carol Tullo (Director, OPSI),
Unlocking information, engaging communities
· Simon Field (Chief Technology Officer, Office for National Statistics),
Making the most of statistical data
· Brian Hoadley (Head of Product Design and Customer Insight, Directgov),
Directgov | innovate
· Ton Zijlstra and James Burke (Open government data project commissioned by Ministry for Interior Affairs, Netherlands),
Open government data in the Netherlands
· Simon Grice (BeLocal)
Video of session
16:00-16:30 - Coffee
16:30-18:00 - Discussion and statement
· Facilitated by Jonathan Gray (Open Knowledge Foundation + Royal Holloway)
Video of session
27th March
09:30-10:00 - Keynote:
Richard Owens, WIPO,
WIPO and Access to Content: The Development Agenda and the Public Domain
Video of session
10:00-11:30 - Public sector content and cultural heritage institutions
· Ben White (British Library),
Digitising European Culture: Legal Stasis?
· Tom Moritz (Internet Archive),
Full Return on Investment: the case for open access to scientific data and information
· Edward Betts (Open Library),
One web page for every book
· Frances Pinter (London School of Economics + Bloomsbury Academic),
Open Publishing: Working with the Commercial and Public sectors
· Nadia Arbach (Victoria and Albert Museum),
Wikipedia Loves Art
· Mathias Schindler (Bundesarchiv image collection at Wikimedia Deutschland),
Bundesarchiv and Wikimedia Commons
Video of session
11:30-12:00 - Coffee
12:00-13:30 - Public sector content and cultural heritage institutions (continued)
· Hilary Roberts (Imperial War Museum on Flickr Commons),
The Imperial War Museum and the Commons on Flickr Armistice Day Project
· Paul Gerhardt (Archives for Creativity),
Creative Engagement with Broadcast Archives
Discussion and statement
· Facilitated by Prodromos Tsiavos (LSE + ENCORE)
Video of session
13:30-14:30 - Lunch
14:30-18:00 - COMMUNIA Working Groups
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