February | 2010 | Be openly accessible or be obscure

Archive for February, 2010

February 28, 2010 at 4:32 pm · Filed under Open Access ·Tagged FriendFeed, Twitter

Updates related to OA, sent to Twitter during February 2010:

Summaries of sessions at the Science Commons Symposium, Redmond WA, Feb. 20, 2010 [February 23]: http://bit.ly/9N3twI via http://ff.im/go7qj
RT @oatp: Environmental journal promotes openness with publication of raw data [February 20]: http://bit.ly/dzaUPz
RT @oatp: OSTP comments and the issue of compensation [February 19]: http://bit.ly/atp0mq
Public sharing of research datasets: A pilot study of associations [February 18]: http://bit.ly/9uqRXT Free preprint: http://bit.ly/bsEyge
RT @hleman: Peer review: What is it good for? [February 11]: http://bit.ly/a9kHXf
RT @phylogenomics: Guardian: ‘Climategate’ was PR disaster … (note #OpenAccess experiment) [February 10]: http://ff.im/-fI1Z1
OA is changing the way we learn about research discoveries (see p. 15/16 of PDF) [February 10]: http://bit.ly/dCfrcL
RT @oatp: Open Access and Glacial Melting (OA brings traceability to materials) [February 7]: http://bit.ly/aCzGxX
Sharing Data on the Web (public domain ensures the freedom to integrate) (via http://ff.im/focPD) [February 5]: http://bit.ly/bDDLRA

February 20, 2010 at 12:29 am · Filed under Open Access ·Tagged open data

A commentary: Panton Principles for Open Data in Science, Bill Hooker, Open Reading Frame, February 19, 2010 [FriendFeed entry].

The Principles:

When publishing data make an explicit and robust statement of your wishes [with respect to re-use and re-purposing of individual data elements, the whole data collection, and subsets of the collection].
Use a recognized waiver or license that is appropriate for data [many widely recognized licenses are not appropriate].
If you want your data to be effectively used and added to by others it should be open as defined by the Open Knowledge/Data Definition – in particular non-commercial and other restrictive clauses should not be used.
Explicit dedication of data underlying published science into the public domain via PDDL or CCZero is strongly recommended and ensures compliance with both the Science Commons Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data and the Open Knowledge/Data Definition.

Some background information about the origin of these Principles (at the Panton Arms, Cambridge): The Panton Principles: A breakthrough on data licensing for public science? Peter Murray-Rust, petermr’s blog, May 16th, 2009, and: A breakthrough on data licensing for public science? Cameron Neylon, Science in the Open, May 15, 2009.