INFO2009 resource: Infographic on the evolution of Open Source Software

Infographic providing a timeline of important events in the history of open source software since the fifties. Also includes stats for OSS licenses, usage in Business and reasons for participating in an OSS community.

Getting Started With Open Data

This lecture introduces an array of data sources that can be used to create new applications and visualisations, many examples of which are given. Additionally, there are a number of slides on open data standards, freedom of information requests and how to affect the future of open data.

Getting Started with Open Data II

Overview of Linked Data in presentation to Royal Academy of Engineering

An Open Letter to Educators. Dan Brown's Rant about Universities

An (ex) student says what he thinks about the education systems and universities.

Open Government Data

Linked Open data – a platform for modern science, engineering, education and business. In the more recent talk, Sir Nigel Shadbolt speaks about "The Value of Openess - The Open Data Institute and Publically Funded Open Data" during the Natural History Museum of London Informatics Horizons event.

The Open Education Movement: OERs and MOOCs

This presentation is based around a conference keynote presentation developed in April 2013.

Benefits of Linked & Open Data

Presentation to ARMA2013 (Association of Research Managers and Administrators)

Open Equipment data flow

Short set of slides explaining the workflow from a university website to equipment.data.ac.uk