This month, I’m starting a year long Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship. Thanks to Shuttleworth Foundation’s support I’ll be able to dedicate myself full-time to open knowledge and the Open Knowledge Foundation.

I’ll be working to promote open knowledge and open data around the world — open knowledge being any kind of content or data from sonnets to
statistics, genes to geodata, that can be freely used, reused and redistributed.

Specifically I’ll be:

• Promoting open knowledge in different domains such as the governmental,
  scientific, economic and bibliographic. This will involve working to
  develop communities of advocates and practitioners – organising
  regular meetings, bringing people together for events, working
  on standards and consensus building. Initiating and sustaining
  independent and active communities, using, and
  promoting open data in different fields is key to advancing open
  knowledge around the world.

• Helping to grow the open data ecosystem, for example by adapting the
  tools and methodologies of the free/open source software community for
  use with open data. For example, I’ll be working heavily to develop
  CKAN, an open source registry for datasets. CKAN, which I helped
  initiate as an Open Knowledge Foundation project, is being used by the
  UK in its official data catalogue, data.gov.uk, and already has
  community instances in many other countries around the world –
  including Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy,
  New Zealand, and Norway. There’s lot of interesting work both to
  extend CKAN and to improve associated tools like datapkg which enable
  “data developers” to automate working with datasets.

• Working on specific projects that exemplify the open knowledge
  development process from end to end – going from opening up the raw
  data, to cleaning and aggregation, to re-exporting for reuse or
  integration into end user applications that explore, analyze and
  present the data. For example, Where Does My Money Go?, a project to
  allow users to explore and visually represent UK public spending, and
  Open Biblio, which will be bringing together a substantial of open bibliographic data as well as tools for its use and reuse.

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