Monthly Archives: November 2007

Open Access and Open Data: licences, policies and other constraints

Posted on November 1, 2007 by pm286

I am trying to follow up the value and deficiencies of attaching a formal Open Data licence to a chunk of information. I’d written a good deal when I also saw Peter Suber’s blog: Whether or not to allow derivative … Continue reading →

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Open Access and Tropical Diseases

Posted on November 1, 2007 by pm286

This should be of interest to those interested in cyberscience and collaborative projects: WHO launches OA portal on tropical diseases Peter Suber, Open Access News “TropIKA is a new OA portal for research and information on tropical diseases.  (Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Motivation for Wikipedian contributors

Posted on November 1, 2007 by pm286

Why do we contribute to Wikipedia? Here’s a report of a survey. I add my additional motivations below: var imagebase=’file://C:/Program Files/FeedReader30/’; Tim O’Reilly (et al.): “What Motivates Wikipedians”: review of a survey 20:19 30/10/2007, Andy Oram, By Andy Oram A … Continue reading →

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Joe Townsend's PhD and data-driven science

Posted on November 1, 2007 by pm286

Joe was examined yesterday by Martin Dove (Cambridge) and Henry Rzepa – of course nothing is official but he was given the indication “minor corrections”. So I will congratulate Joe on having to make corrections. I won’t put words into … Continue reading →

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