Category Archives: open issues

open data: concepts from David Wiley

Posted on August 11, 2007 by pm286

David Wiley has commented very clearly on the issues involved in licensing content (or putting it in the public domain). This is the first of two posts, with my comments interjected. By background, David seems to be writing in an … Continue reading →

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open data: are licenses needed?

Posted on August 11, 2007 by pm286

Now that I’m back to regular rhythms and the intensity of scifoo has subsided I’m back to the current main obsession of this blog: access to data and its re-use. It’s catalysed by a post from Peter Suber commenting on … Continue reading →

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towards repeatability: push to re-run

Posted on August 9, 2007 by pm286

Although repeatability has always been a key part of formal scientific procedure we are now finding several new tools to help us. In principle we can capture every moment of the scientific process and “replay” it for others. Here is … Continue reading →

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Repositories: give us the tools

Posted on August 9, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Sefton’s blog: Why not HTML for online journals? People need the right tools. 00:43 09/08/2007, Sefton I have already mentioned this blog post lamenting the use of PDF instead of HTML in an online journal: In short, choosing … Continue reading →

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Wiley: your supporting information for chemistry isn't satisfactory

Posted on August 9, 2007 by pm286

It has become increasingly common for journals to offer – or require – “supporting information” (“supplemental data”, etc.) as an adjunct to the “full-text” article. This is now an essential part of much publications and this post shows how when … Continue reading →

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scifoo: data-driven science and storage

Posted on August 7, 2007 by pm286

I managed to get out to a few sessions at scifoo not concerned with my immediate concerns, of which two were on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Google’s abiility and willingness to manage scientific data. They come together because … Continue reading →

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scifoo: Open Science

Posted on August 7, 2007 by pm286

One of the themes at scifoo was “Open Science” or “Open Notebook Science” – the latter term coined by Jean-Claude Bradley. The idea that science is publicly recorded as it is done. The very first bottom-up session (i.e. Saturday morning) … Continue reading →

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The birth of a movement

Posted on August 3, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Suber’s blog. An account of the roots of the Open Access declarations: Intro to OA for the FOSS community Bruce Byfield, Academia’s Open Access movement mirrors FOSS community, Linux.com, August 2, 2007. Excerpt: Free and open source software … Continue reading →

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Request for Open publication of crystallographic data in Elsevier's Tetrahedron

Posted on July 31, 2007 by pm286

=========== Open letter to editors of Tetrahedron ========== Professor L. Ghosez , Professor Lin Guo-Qiang , Professor T. Lectka , Professor S.F. Martin , Professor W.B. Motherwell , Professor R.J.K. Taylor , Professor K. Tomioka Subj: Request for Open publication … Continue reading →

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cyberscience: Changing the business model for access to data

Posted on July 31, 2007 by pm286

I have been reviewing the availability of Open Data for cyberscience – concentrating recently on crystallography and chemical spectra as examples. I’ll propose a new business model here, still very ill-formed and I welcome comments. It applies particularly to disciplines … Continue reading →

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