Open Research Reports: Links, Video and Prezi

@jenny_molloy has created a top class summary of #ORR2011 at http://science.okfn.org/2011/10/29/okfn-at-oss2011-open-research-reports/ . It will point you to the discussions, the presentations and the latest URLs for the workshop, etc. We have a wiki at http://wiki.okfn.org/Wg/Science/swat4ls_hackathon

Jenny and I have created a video (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6280676/ORRVideo.m4v )describing the *why* of ORR2011 – why is it necessary? It’s about 5.5 minutes and everyone to whom I’ve shown it has understood the point.

It had to be made on a tight timescale (ca 3 days). I looked for existing footage that we could use, including:

• Me talking at Open Science Summit (#oss2011)
• Jenny talking at Open Science Summit (#oss2011)
• Some of our #oss2011 slides
• Graham Steel at Cambridge earlier this year representing patients
• Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango discussing the importance of Open Access for research from Kenya and other African countries (with Leslie Chan, a co-creator of ORR.
• Interlude slides from Jenny.

I was in Washington State, Jenny in Oxford. So we iterated slowly and at strange times of the day. I would say “let’s have 33 secs of this and 22 of that and can you voice over this and add a caption here” and Jenny was learning how to use the equipment in Oxford (BTW thanks to Oxford computing services, OUCS). And it would turn out that she couldn’t voice over because the ambient noise was too loud and there would be glitches and so on. And I would see the next draft and show it to people and get comments about … So Jenny would re-edit at strange times of the day (and not weekends because they were closed, etc.)

I think Jenny has done a tremendous job. (Apart from her starring role, which was anyway pretty ad lib as we only finished the slides just before the #oss2011 presentation).

So it’s large (50 Mbytes) but it’s a video. It needs a CC-BY notice. Treat as CC-BY, we’ll try to add this la. BTW all the components are CC-BY so we were able to use Mary’s footage without prior permission as we were in a rush. Maybe put it on Youtube?

So this will entice people to come. But we’d also like to tell people what *semantic* means. So maybe there will be a second edition.

Meanwhile Mark MacGillivray has converted “animal garden” to Prezi. Fantastic job Mark. Because it was in Powerpoint Mark hasn’t been able to translate the speech bubbles. I should have dumped it as PDF (what am I saying?). Anyway it’s great and here it is http://prezi.com/curtjkrhlagu/animal-garden/. Open it as full screen and it will change every few seconds, I think.

Enjoy (if you are a proponent of openness). Else prepare to be converted