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"Open knowledge (or free knowledge) is knowledge that is free to use, reuse, and redistribute without legal, social, or technological restriction.[1] Open knowledge organizations and activists have proposed principles and methodologies related to the production and distribution of knowledge in an open manner." - Wikipedia
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Liberating knowledge from climate-related reports
Open Plaques
GlasgowOpen Plaques is a community-based project which brings to life the history that plaques encapsulate.
Wikidata Embedding Project
BerlinThe project’s aim is to enhance the search functionality of Wikidata by integrating vector-based semantic search.
Allmaps makes it easier and more inspiring to curate, georeference and explore collections of digitized maps.
Stichting Internet Archive / Internet Archive Europe
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱Internet Archive Europe is a project by the Dutch non-profit research library Stichting Internet Archive. It is building collections and tools to bring them to life.
Creative Commons
Mountain View, CACreative Commons is an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture we need to address the world's most pressing challenges and create a brighter future for all.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Denmark (Danmark) 🇩🇰Directory of Open Access Journals: Find open access journals & articles.
Censored articles were republished in books within Minecraft, giving readers the chance to inform themselves about the real political situation in their countries and learn the importance of press freedom.
alphaXiv
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CAStudents at Stanford have built alphaXiv, an open discussion forum for arXiv papers
Every CRS Report
Washington, DCWe’re publishing reports by Congress’s think tank, the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate. These reports are already available to the well-connected — we’re making them available to everyone for free.
The Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard Law School Library
Harvard University, Cambridge, MAStrengthening society’s connection to knowledge by advancing our access to and understanding of the data that shapes AI.
Wiki Education
Chico, CaliforniaWiki Education engages students and academics to improve Wikipedia
AMBER
Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MAAmber is a tool for blogs & websites to keep linked content accessible
EveryDoor is an OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances.
FIeldTM allows for coordinating field mapping activities in Open Mapping campaigns. While there are existing field mapping applications, there is a lack of efficient tools to coordinate these activities. The FMTM builds on the HOT Tasking Manager and other mapping applications to provide a more streamlined and organized process for completing field mapping tasks.
This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.
The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use tool for participatory sketch mapping through offline collection, digitization and georeferencing of local spatial knowledge. The tool has a variety of applications. For example, do you want to work together with people in a community to map their experience and perception of risk in their neighbourhood in a paper-based format, but still be able to quickly analyse the results digitally? Then, the Sketch Map Tool is exactly what you need!
BudLib
Calgary, AB, CanadaBudLib is an open-source Library Management System, built and designed from ground up, primarily for smaller and independent schools.
We created a search engine for public domain works that can be adapted to work in each country as the legislation changes according to the nationality of the author of the work.
Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.
Datamuse
MassachusettsDatamuse is a collection of websites, mobile apps, and APIs designed to help people create and communicate more effectively.
Discover 49,883,271 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States
Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN)
Alexandria, VASupports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.
Measure the Internet, save the data, and make it universally accessible and useful.
arXiv.org
Cornell University, Ithaca, New YorkarXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
WikiProject Medicine
San FranciscoWP:MED as it is known aims to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's medical articles.
Wikidata search tool for Venezuelan works in public domain
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 🇻🇪An automated query in Wikidata of all existing profiles of Venezuelan authors, scientists and creators whose works are in the public domain according to national and international laws by virtue of the time elapsed since their death.
Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.
The Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force will explore the use of Verifiable Credentials that represent education, employment, and achievement credentials
Now under development, the Academy will offer online and in-person courses to millions of health workers and others around the world.
A Steward of the Internet of Education, Web3, Blockchain, Digital Wallets, Crypto, DOAs, and Verifiable Credentials for Learning
What if we worked together to enable learner sovereignty, mobility and agency?
Alliance For Taxpayer Access
21 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 USThe Alliance for Taxpayer Access works to ensure that the published results of research funded with public dollars are made available to the American public, for free, online, as soon as possible.
Open Knowledge Foundation France
La Cantine - 12 Galerie Montmartre 75002 ParisNous sommes l’Open Knowledge Foundation France, un groupe local de l’Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF), créé en décembre 2012.
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works.
Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda is a team of self-motivated individuals who improve articles on Wikimedia Foundation project websites and promote free and open access to knowledge locally. They also invested in projects that sensitize and train communities about Wikipedia.
Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
The CaribbeanThe Wikimedians of the Caribbean Usergroup is a Wikimedia user group focused on the peoples of the Caribbean and the Caribbean Diaspora, bringing together cultures and languages, and also the communities with their diasporas.
The Turing Way: Community-led guides for data science and open research
The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UKAlan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work.
Social Science One
Harvard University, Cambridge, MASocial Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.
In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.
Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V.
Schlesische Str 6, 10997 Berlin, Germany
Open Knowledge Brasil
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷A Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR), também chamada de Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre, é o capítulo da Open Knowledge Internacional no Brasil.
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