Behörden sollen in Zukunft verpflichtet werden, möglichst viele Daten unter offenen Lizenzen zu veröffentlichen. Beispielsweise Verkehrs-, Wetter- oder Geodaten sollen unter Creative-Commons-Lizenzen, medienbruchfrei, grundsätzlich barrierefrei, menschen- und maschinenlesbar sowie standardisiert zur Verfügung stehen.
Imagine you would like to study a plant species of interest, say for its ability to supply food, fiber, fuel or just to gain a deeper scientific understanding. Two approaches immediately come to mind: an understanding of its underlying genetics and an understanding of plant phenomics, which spans how the genes express themselves across huge length scales from the microscopic to the whole plant itself.
Kew has released a new report today, entitled the State of the World's Plants, complete with it's own web site https://stateoftheworldsplants.com. Its aim: This is, of course, a laudable goal, and a lot of work has gone into this report, and yet there are some things about the report that I find very frustrating. PDF but no ePub It's nice to have an interactive web site as well as a glossy PDF, but why restrict yourself to a PDF?
The current global panic about Zika is a “data gap” issue: a vacuum of information due to gaps in understanding of its spread and pathogenesis , and gaps in sharing the research data and specimens that will enable the global research community to keep one step ahead of the disease spread.
Trotz freier Presse, offenen Daten und Wikileaks wächst die Zahl der amtlichen Geheimnisse. Und mit ihnen wachsen der tiefe, unkontrollierbare Staat und die Ohnmacht seiner Bürger. Eine offene Gesellschaft muss das ändern. Geheimhaltung und Journalismus – diese beiden Dinge vertragen sich nicht. Sie sollen und dürfen sich auch gar nicht vertragen, wenn sie ihrer jeweiligen Aufgabe gerecht werden wollen.
This is a post written jointly by Nelson Lau from Brandeis and me, Björn Brembs. In contrast to Nelson’s guest post, which focused on the open data aspect of our collaboration, this one describes the science behind our paper and a second one by Nelson, which just appeared in PLoS Genetics. Laboratories around the world are generating a tsunami of deep-sequencing data from nearly every organism, past and present.
Why our Open Data project worked, (and how Decorum can allay our fears of Open Data). I am honored to Guest Post on Björn’s blog and excited about the interest in our work from Björn’s response to Dorothy Bishop’s first post. As corresponding author on our paper, I will provide more context to our successful Open Data experience with Björn’s and Casey’s labs.
This is a response to Dorothy Bishop’s post “Who’s afraid of open data?“. After we had published a paper on how Drosophila strains that are referred to by the same name in the literature (Canton S), but came from different laboratories behaved completely different in a particular behavioral experiment, Casey Bergman from Manchester contacted me, asking if we shouldn’t sequence the genomes of these five fly strains to find out how they
That Was The Review Week That Was If you’ve seen the #peerrevwk15 hashtag on social media, you may have noticed this week is the first ever Peer Review Week.
Today (2015-09-01), marks the public announcement of Research Ideas & Outcomes (RIO for short), a new open access journal for all disciplines that seeks to open-up the entire research cycle with some truly novel features I know what you might be thinking: *Another open access journal? Really? * Myself, nor Daniel Mietchen simply wouldn’t be involved with this project if it was just another boring open access journal.