Who are the Open Knowledge Foundation and Science Commons?
The Open Knowledge Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open knowledge in all its forms. It is a leader in this field nationally and internationally. The Foundation’s activities are organized around individual working groups and projects, each focused on a different aspect of open knowledge, but united by a common set of concerns, and a common set of traditions in both etiquette and process. Science Commons is a project of the Creative Commons, a 501c(3) non-profit organization based in San Francisco that is best know for its development of the Creative Commons licences for creative works. The Science Commons project has focussed on examining how best to make the outputs of research available and has lead to the development a of a range of tools and policy statements in this space.
