Mastodon

Category: Conferences

  • Generation Open: A Diary of OpenCon 2014

    Day 0 of OpenCon started with me missing the pre-conference drinks reception because my flight from Chicago was delayed by 2 hours. I got into Washington, D.C. (DCA) at about midnight & then had to wait half an hour for a blue line train to take me the short distance from the airport to the…

  • OpenCon 2014 – be the change!

    [Update: the conference itself will be in November, 2014 – this is just the first announcement!] I’m super excited to announce I’m part of the international organizing committee for OpenCon 2014:         You can read the official first press release about this event here: http://www.righttoresearch.org/act/opencon/announcement   here’s an excerpt from it: “From…

  • Panton Fellowship wrap-up [OKF repost]

    My final repost today (edited) from the Open Knowledge Foundation blog. It’s a little old, originally posted on the 16th of April, 2013 but I think it definitely deserves to be here on my blog as a record of my activities… So… it’s over. For the past twelve months I was immensely proud to be one…

  • Worldwide Dissemination

    In the last 2 weeks I’ve given talks in Brussels & Amsterdam. The first one was given during a European Commission (Brussels) working group meeting on Text & Data Mining. There were perhaps only ~30 people in the room for that. The second presentation was given just a few days ago at Beyond The PDF…

  • yet another #solo12 recap (part2)

    A couple of days ago I posted specifically about the data re-use session. I’m going to use this post to muse about the conference more generally. About SpotOn London 2012 It used to be called Science Online London – an informative, sensible and appropriate name. This year I hear (rumours) that it had to change…

  • yet another #solo12 recap (part 1)

    So there’s been a few already: SpotOn day 1 & SpotOn day 2 being the best I’ve read, from Ian Mulvany see also: SpotOn London – a global conference by Jon Tennant | #solo12 reflection by A J Cann | SpotOn London 2012 in brief by Charis Cook | Altmetric @ SpotOn London 2012 by Jean Liu, and more… but since…