History

Contents

Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Knowledge

Also see a Wikipedia article about the Open Definition.

Versions of the Open Definition

v2.1: 2015-11

Announcement

2.0-2.1 diff

v2.0: 2014-10

Announcement

1.1-2.0 diff

v1.1: 2009-11

Very minor corrections and emendations to the text. Merge annotated and simple versions of the definition.

1.0-1.1 diff

v1.0: 2006-07

After a final period in which to solicit feedback version 1.0 was released in July 2006. At the same time the project was moved from http://www.okfn.org/okd/ to https://opendefinition.org/okd/

v0.2.1:2006-05

Further feedback led to another minor revision (v0.2.1) in May 2006.

v0.2: 2005-10

In response to that feedback a second draft (v0.2) was released in October 2005 and publicly posted on the OKF website at http://www.okfn.org/okd/.

v0.1: 2005-08

The first version (v0.1) of the definition was drafted in August 2005 and was circulated to, among others, Peter Suber, Cory Doctorow, Tim Hubbard, Peter Murray-Rust, Jo Walsh and Prodromos Tsiavos.

News Items

Autumn 2009 onwards: please see Open Definition Updates and the Open Definition category of the Open Knowledge blog.

2009-09-30: Macedonian translation of the Open Knowledge Definition thanks to Ljube Babunski
2009-09-22: Swedish translation of the Open Knowledge Definition thanks to Peter Krantz and Staffan Malmgren
2009-06-19: French translation of the Open Knowledge Definition thanks to Caroline Ker and Séverine Dusollier, University of Namur
2009-06-03: One Click Orgs are using an Open Service button.
2009-06: The University of Huddersfield Library is using an Open Data button - see the Circulation and Recommendation Data directory and the readme.
2008-12-18: Icelandic translation of the Open Knowledge Definition thanks to Hjalmar Gislason and Icelandic Open Data.
2008-11-14: Greek translation of the Open Knowledge Definition thanks to Ioannis Doukas, King’s College London/University of Athens.
2008-10-08: The Computus Engine is using an Open Knowledge web button.
2008-08-09: The Kids Open Dictionary Builder is using the Open Knowledge web button.
2008-08-04: Mike Linksvayer joins the opendefinition.org Advisory Council.
2008-06-03: Italian translation of the Open Knowledge Definition thanks to Primavera De Filippi, Andrea Glorioso and Juan Carlos De Martin at the NEXA Center for Internet & Society, Politecnico di Torino.
2008-06-02: Debategraph is using the Open Knowledge web button.
2008-05-26: The Potto Project is using the Open Content web button.
2008-04-03: The omdb is using the Open Content web button (see their copyright page).
2008-04-01: MusicBrainz are using the Open Knowledge web button.
2008-03-11: Basque translation of the Definition courtesy of Gotzon Egia.
2008-03-03: Spanish and Catalan translations of the Definition courtesy of Ignasi Labastida i Juan.
2008-02-29: Polish translation of the Definition courtesy of Jarosław LIpszyc
2008-02-28: Danish translation of the Definition courtesy of Peter Froberg
2008-02-11: Launch of new Advisory Council for managing https://opendefinition.org and its associated material.
2007-12-17: Science Commons announce the Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data which is compatible with the Open Knowledge/Data Definition.
2007-12-12: Prelinger Archives at archive.org are using the Open Knowledge web button.
2007-1/okd9: Languages of the World (Multilingual RDF Descriptions) using the Open Data web button.
2007-10-17: New Popular Edition Maps are using the Open Data web button
2007-09-10: DBTune is using the Open Knowledge web button
2007-09-01: Quotations Book are using the Open Content web button (see their disclaimer page)
2007-08-31: GovTrack is using the Open Knowledge web button
2007-08-25: AMEE are using the Open Knowledge and Open Data web buttons (see their blog and their wiki).
2007-07-18: DBpedia is using the Open Data web button (see their resource pages, e.g. Berlin).
2007-06-25: Geocoder US is using the Open Knowledge web button.
2007-05-02: Crystal Eye (Open Crystallography Data) using the Open Data web buttons (see e.g. this page which provides summary data on C12H8ClF).
2007-04-09: Planning Alerts using an Open Data web button.
2007-03-22: Open Access News using an Open Knowledge web button
2007-02-23: The Public Whip using the new Open Data web button
2007-02-06: Open Knowledge and Open Data ‘web buttons’ available on the buttons page
2007-01-22: Update front page with ‘distilled’ version of the definition
2006-09-27: Serbian Translation courtesy of Vedran Vucic and the GNULinux Centar
2006-09-10: German translation of the Definition courtesy of Christian Hauschke
2006-09-06: v1 released
2006-07-20: New site goes live.
2006-06: Beta version in circulation.
2006-05: Contact with Freedom Defined project
2006-01: Definition has own project page on Open Knowledge Foundation website at: http://www.okfn.org/okd/
2005-10: v0.2 of the definition produced and circulated for comments
2005-08: Draft version of the definition produced and circulated for comments