WWW 2007 Presentation

[This is roughly my presentation for the meeting, with conclusions. I may edit it during the day so early feed readers will have captured early versions]
The presentation concentrates on science, but applies to all scholarly journals. Addresses copyright and licenses; patents are completely separate issue.
Background Resources:

• Wikipedia Open Data
• SPARC Open Data Mailing list
• Budapest Open Access Initiative (para 3 "open access")

petermr posts:

• Open Canada (a country at the forefront of Open)
  
• The importance of Open Data (clickable genome)
• The reality of closed access (access denied)
  
• The pit-bull and the pendulum (Closed publishers take action)

We must act:

• Need statement on Open Data (c.f. Open Access)
• Funders must insist on Open Data
• Institutions must insist that staff publish Open Data
• Authors should use Science Commons Author Addenda in all data
• Publishers should make all supporting information Open

In any case the scientific semantic web (2.0) will become so powerful it will ultimately sweep away twentieth century practices. Publishers, you have been warned.