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"The strategy seeks to emphasise activities designed to bring benefits to the education sector in the short-term, while at the same time maintaining investment in those projects with mid- and long-term benefits: in particular, programmes or services that help to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of universities and colleges, to reduce costs in the short-term, and to enhance the competitiveness of education and research and the economy." Joint Information Systems Committeen (JISC) strategiassa sitoudutaan avoimuuteen eri osa-alueilla, mm. avoin lähdekoodi, avoimet standardit, avoin data.

"We believe it's much better to publish the following five components to provide transparent and auditable disclosure: 1. The raw data 2. The circumstances of its collection 3. The method and assumptions used to process the data (in words and equations) 4. The results of the processing 5. The known limitations on the method and significance of the assumptions"

"Digital material can be easily reproduced at no cost. But this potential is often not realised, because the vast majority of archaeological information is not shared. Researchers and research groups usually restrict access to their data to a small group of people. In other words, data sharing is not so widespread among archaeologists as one might wish, and dissemination of research is still mostly based on traditional pre-digital means like journal articles, books and the like."

"The website will make vast amounts of SETI data available to the public for the first time. It will also publish the SETI Institute's signal-detection algorithm as open source code, inviting brilliant coders and amateur techies to make it even better."

"The Open Data Catalogue is an attempt to classify where this [open] information resides, who 'owns' it, what license it is distributed under and if it is free or not."

"We develop and host projects around transparency, participatory democracy, and generally making central and local government useful to citizens and businesses."

"This consultation relates to proposals made by the Prime Minister on 17 November 2009, to make certain Ordnance Survey datasets\navailable for free with no restrictions on re-use. Scope of this consultation: The consultation seeks views about how we best implement the above proposal, in the context of other strategic options for Ordnance Survey and the wider geographic information market."

"a number of organizations - POGO, OMB Watch, CREW, National Security Archive, the Center for Democracy and Technology and the Open The Government coalition- and Sunlight sent a letter to Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO, about improvements needed to the release of High Value Datasets on Data.gov."

Avoin REST/XML-rajapinta Eduskunnan äänestystietoihin. Tämä rajapinta on toteutettu Screen Scraping -tekniikalla, eli palvelu lukee suoraan Eduskunnan webbisivuja, muodostain niistä oman tietokantansa ja tarjoten sitä helpolla APIlla eteenpäin.

Googlen avoin Chart API on saanut kaverikseen Visualization API:n, jolla voi tehdä interaktiivisia graafeja.

a new project - open source drug discovery for malaria. Initially the participants are my group at the University of Sydney and the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), but naturally as an open project we need to expand beyond this.

"We need to organise Government data and software using an agreed set of standards that make our IT more open, cheaper and better connected. Following the outcome of a public consultation on Open Standards: Open Opportunities, we've set out in Open Standards Principles the rules that government bodies must follow when specifying their IT."

"From makerspaces to data wrangling schools to archives, the digital is being remixed by the open - and it is changing society as we know it. New concepts about public information, transparency and the Commons are combining in unprecedented ways, resulting in a breadth of transformative collaborations across the globe."

"The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is a community of Living Labs with a sustainable strategy for enhancing innovation on a systematic basis. The overall objective is to contribute to the creation of a dynamic European innovation system. ENoLL aims to support co-creative, human-centric and user-driven research, development and innovation in order to better cater for people's needs."

"The Code for America Commons is an information product, made up of the Commons app directory and the Commons Wiki knowledge base".

""Linked Open Data: The Essentials," a new quick-start guide for decision-makers who need to quickly get up to speed with the LOD concept, and who want to make their government or organization a part of the movement."

"Besides descriptive metadata which is already covered in other documents also non-sensitive data produced by libraries and related institutions is subject of the recommendations, e.g. statistical data or circulation data. Furthermore, the recommendations don't only cover open licensing but also open access, open standards and the documentation, sustainability as well as other apsects of open data."