Last week (24th to 28th of November 2014) I attended the the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2014). Set in Linköping, a charming (and chilly) city in Sweden, the conference had a strong focus on Semantic Web related areas, such as Description Logics, OWL and Linked Data. For tweets about the more »
Scotland’s Open Data
I recently spent a couple of hours throwing together a list of resources about open data for an informal tutorial targeted at undergraduate students involved in the Smart Data Hack. Part of my input was a list of Scottish public data and vocabularies compiled in 2010 by Peter Winstanley. Since then, I’ve been wondering about more »
Events page powered by Open Data
It’s a cause for celebration when a community can generate and sustain lots of events around openness. But it can also be a source of problems. As the Open Knowledge Foundation Local Group in Scotland continues to thrive, we are beginning to collaborate more and more with the Scottish OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia communities, and of more »