Map of Openness
Description
A versioned database of open projects, open initiatives and the organisations and individuals behind them. A publicly editable directory and knowledge base of information about these projects and groups. A visual interface to explore and analyse the material.
Aims
- practical:
- as a resource to help find out who is working in different areas
- to help share experience and expertise
- for funders to find out about existing projects
- theoretical/research:
- to understand relationships between different projects and different groups
- to learn more about IPR regimes, sustainability and stakeholders in open projects
- to examine public perceptions of open projects
Plan
- start to develop an information structure/domain model
- build a list of test cases (projects/orgs) to help refine information structure/domain model
- build a list of use cases (users of map) to help communicate value and to refine information structure
Partners
Interested parties include:
Information structure
Basic idea could be to have lowest common demoninator of metadata + more specific metadata.
- Organisation (research about what kinds of fields are common?)
- type (is there a standard taxonomy for this?)
- area of work (initially unstructured text/tags?)
- date started
- number of people
- link to projects
- link to persons
- income
- mission statement
- url
- blog/news feed url?
- mailing list url
- contact details
- Project
- link to organisations
- link to persons
- funding/income
- url
- mailing list url
- contact details
- project description
- tags
- Person
- link to organisations
- link to projects
- link to other
To do list
- look into existing work in this area
- start list of test cases
- start list of use cases
- start to develop information structure