[esocialaction] open documentary project - draft proposal

[Giles Lane]

Dear All,

I've been meaning to post to the list for some time as the work we've  
been doing at Proboscis on 'public authoring' / knowledge mapping and  
sharing through the Urban Tapestries project and now the Social  
Tapestries programme seems to connect well with the aims of the Open  
Documentary project. The Urban Tapestries software platform is  
currently being significantly upgraded and we hope to have a public  
beta version for testing later this year. Meantime we published three  
reports on the UT project back in June which you may find interesting:
http://socialtapestries.net/outcomes/order_reports.html

Our current focus is on working directly with actual people in real  
communities (rather than convened groups) to investigate what people  
can make of high-resolution spatial annotation in respect of their  
daily life and the kinds of knowledge and experiences they wish to  
share. We're working with a primary school, a short-life housing  
cooperative and the tenant management group of a large West London  
housing estate to explore these issues.

The big issue with spatial annotation is the proprietary geographic  
information systems (the Ordnance Survey data) which makes creating  
true FLOSS systems very hard. We have been working hard to engage the  
UK national mapping agency (OS) in adopting a Creative Commons-type  
license for non-commercial/non-profit use of this type and have made  
some headway. Given the new EU Directive on Public Sector Information  
which came into force in July, it might be worth having a part of the  
wider project consider the implications for Open Documentary of these  
issues too, especially as many of the groups who might adopt these  
technologies might be funded, use the resources of or even be  
considered part of the public sector.

best,
Giles

http://urbantapestries.net
http://socialtapestries.net
http://urbantapestries.net/weblog

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Proboscis
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On 7 Sep 2005, at 14:51, David Wilcox wrote:

> Hi Yuwei
>
> I've posted to the wiki here
> http://otho.cms.shu.ac.uk/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Themes.OpenDocumentary
>
> password, which has been on this list before.. so OK to share... is  
> tsa123
>
> However, as you'll see, word wrap isn't working. I've tried  
> everyway to fix this, but it looks as if our friendly techsupport  
> need to make a change in the config file as described here
>
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/WordWrapPreformattedText
>
> I wonder if Andy could help?
>
> David
>
> On 7 Sep 2005, at 12:13, Yuwei Lin wrote:
>
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> > How about putting it on the wiki so we could, as you suggest,  
>> add to it?
>> > http://otho.cms.shu.ac.uk/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?
>> > n=Main.TechnologyandSocialAction
>>
>> That's fine with me. The only thing is to create a new page it  
>> requires
>> password - perhaps you could help put the draft proposal on the wiki?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> /yuwei
>>
>> -- 
>> Yuwei Lin | yuwei at ylin dot org
>> http://www.ylin.org
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