#okfn Proposal for Open Theses and workshop at EURODOC 2011 « petermr’s blog

"One of the several functions of the Open Knowledge Foundation (http://www.okfn.org) is to support bottom-up projects in making knowledge Open and usable. Recently we have proposed an OKF project in Open Theses and Daniel Mietchen, an OKF volunteer from Jena, DE has proposed an exciting, valuable, and realistic activity. He’s suggested a workshop on Open Theses next April at the annual conference of EURODOC http://eurodoc.net/ , to take place in Vilnius from March 31 till April 4, 2011. [1]. Note that Daniel has considerable experience in this area having been involved in Euro projects and meetings about graduates. Open Theses aims to create a bibliography of Theses across the world, based largely on the technology and practice developed in the #jiscopenbib project...."