Image via Wikipedia Science Online London ran late last week and into the weekend and I was very pleased to be asked to run a panel, broadly speaking focused on evaluation and incentives. Now I had thought that the panel went pretty well but I’d be fibbing if I said I wasn’t a bit disappointed. Not disappointed with the panel members or what they said.
Latest stop on the GigaScience magical mystery conference tour is Science Online London, and this year they have tried to make the format more interactive by organizing several interactive workshops and breakout sessions, including one on blogging that this is posting is a product of. One of the main themes running through the meeting has of course been open science (especially in the great keynote by Michael Nielson), and open-data
This is a re-post of something I was invited to write to sum-up my experiences at OKCon 2011.
Image via Wikipedia The Royal Society is running a public consultation exercise on Science as a Public Enterprise. Submissions are requested to answer a set of questions. Here are my answers. 1. What ethical and legal principles should govern access to research results and data?
Part inspired by the ‘Bugs!’ blogging contest, part inspired by Morgan Jackson’s post I thought I’d write some thoughts and observations on the recent FlyToL paper (Wiegmann et al. , PNAS, 2011). [ IMPORTANT UPDATE Since I wrote this blogpost, the authors have made the data publicly available.
On Monday 30 May I gave evidence at a European Commission hearing on Access to Scientific Information. This is the text that I spoke from. Just to re-inforce my usual disclaimer I was not speaking on behalf of my employer but as an independent researcher. We live in a world where there is more information available at the tips of our fingers than even existed 10 or 20 years ago.
In Berlin findet heute die Konferenz der ePSI platform Berlin Open Data: Apps for Everyone? statt. Dabei geht es darum, wie Daten der öffentlichen Hand genutzt werden können: welche Daten zur Verfügung stehen, welche Lizenzen notwendig sind, um sie sinnvoll nutzen zu können, welche Projekte es bereits gibt. iRights.info-Redakteur Matthias Spielkamp wird den Workshop “Access, re-use, innovate!” moderieren.
Die Elektrischen Reporter basteln an einem neuen Video-Format namens ePolitik. Der erste veröffentlichte Testbeitrag kümmert sich um das Thema Open Data: Was ist das, warum gibt es diese Idee, was bewirkt sie bereits, was kann sie noch bewirken, wie ist die Situation in Deutschland – all diese Fragen werden angesprochen. Und natürlich die Frage, wie die rechtliche Situation derzeit aussieht (spoiler alarm: sehr kompliziert!
Image via Wikipedia Richard Stallman and Richard Grant, two people who I wouldn’t ever have expected to group together except based on their first name, have recently published articles that have made me think about what we mean when we talk about “Open� stuff. In many ways this is a return right to the beginning of this blog, which started with a post in which I tried to define my terms as I understood them at the time.
Paulo Nuin, not the biggest fan of Mendeley wrote a blog post entitled Mendeley is going to be open source, in which he wrote: Among the essays Paulo read is Jason Hoyt's post on the Mendeley blog: Dear researcher, which side of history will you be on?. In response to a question about open sourcing the Mendeley client, Jason replied: Despite the fact that open sourcing the desktop client is the second most requested feature for Mendeley, I