I have written earlier about the Amsterdam Manifesto. That arose out of a conference on the theme of “ beyond the PDF “, with one simple question at its heart: what can be done to liberate data from containers it was not designed to be in ? The latest meeting on this topic will happen in January 2015 as FORCE2015. The format is suitably modern, starting with a Hackathon, and then two days of talks, posters and demos.