About OKAPI « Open Knowledge and the Public Interest

About OKAPI

Open Knowledge and the Public Interest (OKAPI) is a team of creative and technical professionals and UC Berkeley faculty who are bringing together people, tools and ideas to improve public scholarship on the UC Berkeley campus. OKAPI is sponsored by the Chief Information Officer and supported in large part through grant-funded projects. OKAPI’s primary aim is to improve public access to UC Berkeley’s research knowledge, resources and communities. As part of the Scholar’s Box project, OKAPI is developing innovative models for creating and sharing digital collections of primary resources for K-Grey education. OKAPI is also partnering with a number of organizations on initiatives relating to open knowledge and public scholarship.

An okapi is an endangered central African mammal with zebra stripes and a giraffe’s neck.

OKAPI Projects:

The Scholar’s Box
The Scholar’s Box is a three-year project to develop models for campus scholars, academic departments, and libraries and museums to create and share open and reusable digital collections to improve campus scholarship and K-12 education.

Presidio Education Program
This program preserves and shares the San Francisco Presidio’s rich multicultural history for research and public education.

Berkeley Natural History Museums Media Vault
We are collaborating with the Berkeley Natural History Museums to address their immediate archival needs and develop a long-term strategy for a variety of data archiving and repository issues.

CyArk Internship
The Cyark internship is a unique collaboration between UC Berkeley and the Kacyra Family Foundation.

Digital Anthropology
These reusable digital collections are being developed as part of the Scholar’s Box project.

Expedition to Nineveh
This project will produce a public archive of documentary materials from excavations and archaeological surveys of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Nineveh.