OPEN-KNOW-WHERE INITIATIVE
REV 3.0, 04/11/2024
Author: Antonio de Jesus Anaya Hernandez, DevOps Eng.
CC BY-SA 4.0
2023-2024, The Internet of Production Alliance.
INTRODUCTION
What: This is the front page of the Open-Know-Where Initiative project. Showcasing the processes of surveying, data collection for machines, facilities, people, and materials and proposing a data governance for distributed manufacturing.
Who: This is intended to be use by Makers and organisations around Maker-spaces, Fab-Labs, and innovation hubs within the Internet of Production Alliance and its projects.
Purpose: The Internet of Production Alliance collects the data from multiple databases of machines, facilities, people, and materials, aggregating and mapping for the Open-Know-Where initiative Open Database project.
Data Processing: The data collected is processed by the DevOps officer of the Internet of Production Alliance.
Data expiration: Data would be re-validated or discarded after 48 months from the initial date of data publishing of the data entries from the time of collection by the Internet of Production Alliance.
Our data policy is found at https://map.internetofproduction.org/data-privacy-policy/index.html
For any map related concerns and requests contact by email to: antonio.anaya@internetofproduction.org
DISTRIBUTED MANUFACTURING MAP
LEGACY MAPS
These map prototypes have been created following the needs of different projects and objectives:
The value proposition of these maps is integrated by the collection of relevant data, the examination and proposition of a technical data storage standard, the exploration of data collection methods and the machine-human interaction with the data.
The maps have been proposed for a set of different identified use cases. And the data collection aims to be a tool for the future understanding and developing of innovation and location of resources.
The current work is in constant review and development. Maps and data amounts will change, accordingly to new finds, regulations and privacy requests.
GLOBAL (Sloan Foundation)
mAkE (Horizon Europe)
IMA (Innovative Manufacturing in Africa)
DATASETS AND RECORDS
SUMMARY
This is a summary of the data based on the analysis and classification reports found on the GitHub Repositories:
FACILITIES
Facilities identification and filtering requires that:
Facility is active, the data is truth, and has: facility name, contact information, or address, or GPS location captured.
Processed:
- "The Fab Foundation, FabLab Network and its partners",
- "Make Works, FabLab Barcelona and its partners",
- "Offene Werkstaetten, and its partners",
- "Field Ready Inc. and its partners",
- "Makery",
- "MakerTour",
- "Make, Makezine",
- "Bay Area Makerspaces UC Berkeley",
- "Bay Area Makerspaces Upbeatlab",
- "sphere.diybio.org",
- "Hackerspaces.org",
- "Vulca",
- "FabCity",
- "Univeristy of Michigan 3DLab"
Yet to Process:
- "Open-Know-Where Data Awards r1",
- "Open-Know-Where Data Awards r2",
- "IMA Innovative Manufacturing in Africa",
- "mAkE African European Maker Ecosystem".
Distribution by continent:
- Africa: 8391
- Asia: 1580
- Europe: 1568
- North America: 357
- South America: 276
- Oceania: 23
MACHINERY
The most common machines found are 3D printers following to CNC milling machines, the "other" class comprises to a variety of machines from presses to air vacuum moulding machines. This preliminary classification depends on the classes and tags defined by the FabLab Network. Later on we identified the need of a Taxonomy for the classification of machines.
- World wide: 7488 [Analysis report]
COLLECTION
A GIT repository containing Jupyter notebooks designed for the collection and analysis of machinery and facilities data its available at:
https://github.com/iop-alliance/okw_data_management.
The notebooks cover a range of topics, including data acquisition processes, machinery cataloguing, and data management.
PUBLICLY AVAILABLE SOURCES
Data in compliance with privacy regulations is available for usage and citation at: https://zenodo.org/communities/iopa
UPDATE, OR REMOVAL
Please send an email to: antonio.anaya@internetofproduction.org with the following:
- Subject: data [update] or [removal] required
- Body: Name, location (city) of the record.
- Part: Applies only to a part of the information like ie. email, address.
- Complete: Applies to the whole record, for this send the record data using the form below and send the record to be replaced. ie. Previous record xx, xx, xx, xx, and New record. yy, yy, yy, yy.
SUBMISSION
At The Internet of Production Alliance, we are grateful for the time and effort of your contributions to this data collection exercise.
- Add your Facility using the "Add facility" form below. If your facility is already added on the map be aware of that we still need to update your information.
- Give us some feedback any step during the data filling process.
Once we have your information, we will validate and show your data in the map.
FORMS
A KoboToolBox survey is setup for data collection. With the following characteristics:
- Offline data submission is possible using the Kobo Collect tool.
- The survey includes a MACHINE INVENTORY apart with the catalogue of machines collected by different databases and vendors.
- For adding a capability to a facility at least one machine addition is required.
- Agreements for contact information are required in compliance with GDPR regulations and other data privacy regulations.
USAGE
HOW TO ADD THE OKW MAP TO YOUR PAGE
- While editing your page's source code, copy&paste this "iframe" inside a "div" element.
<iframe width="100%" height="50%" style="border-radius: 10px; border: 0px #ffffff none;" src="https://map.internetofproduction.org/world.html" name="myiFrame" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" marginheight="0px" marginwidth="0px" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>In the next version of the map generator you will be able to:
- Use different sources of information and select them.
- Parse the data by country, organisation, type of machines and projects.
Let us know if you have any feedback.
2023, The Internet of Production Alliance.