The semantic web depends on shared cultural values which include:
- Sharing (resources, tools, data, etc.)
- Collaboration
- Use of and contribution to semantic web resources
Watch this short, compelling video http://www.youtube.com/user/nyuhsl/videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2zK3sAtr-4 ) from NYU Health Sciences Library on why we MUST share data. Then…
…As we give and listen to presentations let’s ask ourselves:
- Can I get hold of the data reported?
- Can I read it into my machine?
- Can I get the program used?
- How would I know if I got the same results?
And when I run programs…
- Could others repeat the work?
- Could others build on my work?
What are we going to do to change this? Follow TBL: http://5stardata.info/
- Make ALL our data available under open licence. Use CC-BY for text, CC0 for data.
- Structure it. Use tables, not free text.
- Use non-proprietary formats. Not Word, Not Excel.
- Use W3C tools (XML, RDF, MathML, SVG) and their extensions to science (CML, etc.)
- Create discipline-dependent dictionaries (see IUCr for crystallography http://www.iucr.org/resources/cif ).
- Make our code OPEN (cf http://www.blueobelisk.org )
- Put code and data on shared resources such as Bitbucket (http://bitbucket.org/petermr/pdf2svg ) and GitHub.
- Build Wikipedia-like and OpenStreetmap-like communal resources. See http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/crystaleye for crystals
- develop unique identifier systems
- link to other resources
And let’s do this through HACKFESTs.