By Day
Jonathan works at the Open Knowledge Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to improving the way that knowledge is shared. He is mainly responsible for helping to strengthen the diverse community of people interested in different aspects of sharing knowledge — including activists, archivists, artists, designers, geeks, government representatives, journalists, lawyers, lecturers, librarians, scholars, scientists, teachers, technologists and suchlike. His work also involves managing projects, organising events, coordinating research, raising money and generally making sure everything at the Foundation keeps ticking.
He founded the Where Does My Money Go?, a website which allows users to explore and visually represent UK public spending. The project was a winning entry to Cabinet Office Show Us A Better Way competition.
He is also Invited Expert at the W3C eGovernment Interest Group, Partnership Manager at One Click Orgs and co-leader of the Working Group on the Public Domain at the EU funded COMMUNIA project.
By Night
Jonathan is studying philosophy and the history of ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London under Professor Andrew Bowie. In particular he is focusing on the works of Hamann, Herder, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Gadamer. Previously he studied Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University and Social Sciences at the Open University.
He has been involved in the EU funded COST Action 32: Open Scholarly Communities on the Web, and the Discovery Project, which created digital editions of the works of philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein.
He is also helping out with a project to construct a bibliographical index of folktales from around the world at the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy.
Jonathan Gray studies German philosophy and works at the Open Knowledge Foundation.