Open Knowledge Foundation
OKF
A global non-profit that has shaped the open data movement since 2004: it wrote the Open Definition, created the CKAN portal software and ran the Global Open Data Index.
What they publish
- Open DefinitionPrinciples
- Defines what “open” means for data and content: free for anyone to use, modify and share, for any purpose.
- CKANSoftware
- Open-source data portal software, first built at the foundation and used by many national open data portals.
- Frictionless DataStandard
- Lightweight specifications and tools, such as Data Package, for describing and validating datasets.
- Global Open Data IndexIndex
- A crowdsourced assessment of whether key government datasets were published openly, country by country.
Measures open data by country
Global Open Data Index · since 2013 · Global · Last full edition 2016/17
- Availability: Whether key datasets are published at all.
- Openness: Open licence, machine-readable formats, free and bulk access.
- Quality: Timeliness, metadata and data quality.
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