Notes from Coord Meeting: 23rd May 2011
May 23, 2011 in Meeting Notes
## Present
- Maurizio Napolitano
- Mark MacGillivray
- Lucy Chambers
- Primavera De Filippi
- Jonathan Gray
- Rufus Pollock
- Martin Keegan
### Apologies
- Daniel Dietrich
- Friedrich Lindenberg
- Adrian Pohl
- Jason Kitcat
## Agenda
- Catchups
- Plans for the future
- Questions to others
## Catchups
### Maurizio
- Trentino Open Data
- LOD dataset
- Speaking to city (Trento)
- Speaking about geo open data together with the local administration
- The director of the ICT office “Provincia Autonoma di Trento” want have a document to sign to open all the data of Trentino
- Meeting with technical contact at Trento
- Going to be working on map of open government data initiatives
- Internet Governance Forum for Italy this autumn there is a panel about opendata
- Speak to Stefano re: OKF Italia blog
### Mark
Medline dataset to openbiblio project.
### Rufus
Update
### Lucy
Update
### Jonathan
* [Worklog 2011-05-15 to 2011-05-20](http://jwyg.okfn.org/2011/05/20/worklog-2011-05-15-to-2011-05-20/)
### Daniel
- OKCon working with speakers and developing programme
- OKCon all sponsors confirmed
- OKF DE: Berlin Open Data Day (Mai, 18th) with Berlin Open Data Agenda
- Preparations for Apps4Germany Competition
- Texts, E-Mails, etc for German FOI request site
### Primavera
- Meeting with UNESCO’s OSM team – they need to find data collectors and/or ways to motivate people or businesses to collect data to insert into OSM – need for a business model or something. suggestion to submit a workshop or presentation or lightening talk proposal, still in time? 🙂 – excellent! still time – please ping Daniel Dietrich
- If interested yesterday i started to plan a project with the Mantova City about a OSM project for a UNESCO area (napo)
- Giuseppe Contissa agreed to implement an Australian flowchart, eta: 1 week
- http://testing.publicdomainworks.net:5000
- primavera – bibliographica appears to be a bit down at the moment… which makes search slow. as RP said, should have a new instance up soon. here is an example page that pulls data from bibliographica too (also not working right now tho).
## Plans
Primavera
- make a better interface for pdw.net
- rob myers + will + mark to find out how/whether to integrate freebase into bibliographica
- elizabeth planning for OKCon
- meeting with John Rose (former leader of UNESCO public domain thematic area) to discuss potential collaboration with OKF and revival of the unesco thematic area.
- contact Joie Springer (responsible for memory of the world and world digital library programmes at unesco) to find out if we can integrate or access their metadata
- Sanjaya Mishra who is working to conceptualize the links between open access and public domain
## Questions for others
- LC – how to promote OKCon tickets? (Query from Anna PS – Are talks in English? – need to clarify in case it is scaring people away?, More of a Germany drive? Visa letters?)
- LC – Policy for future: Catchups in Notebook
- LC – New people’s induction guide – feedback
- LC – Stickers – LC and JG to catch up post-meeting
- LC – Official Introductions – it was decided that everyone who comes on board should be officially introduced on okfn-discuss
- JG – Flyers
## Actions:
- JG, Mark and Primavera to catch up
- LC Maurizio, Martin, Mark + Primavera
- LC Mark: blog.okfn.org
- LC + JG Call 3:30 BST (Stickers and Induction)
- LC – OKF Get-together
- Jonathan/Rufus/Mark to introduce Primavera to Mathias Schindler