[od-discuss] introducing "Fair Data"

Mon Jan 26 19:59:13 UTC 2015

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Conor Gillies <conor at radioopensource.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>

Very valuable

>
> We'd work with leading internet not-for-profits—Internet Archive,
> Wikipedia, NPR, &c.—to display the icon on privacy info pages and footers.
>
> The icon would represent a baseline, universal privacy policy: your personal
> data isn't being abused, surveilled, or sold for commercial gain.
>
> Working with NPR's head graphic design person on the visual component. But
> we're deep in over our heads articulating the language. So as we begin to
> collect feedback, we're wondering:
>
> 1) What is the most democratic way to write and maintain a basic "Fair
> Data" privacy policy? Where would it be located and edited?
>
> 2) Talking with some folks at the Berkman Center, too. Who else should we
> reach out to about this? Are there similar projects out there to keep in
> mind?
>
> It's an ambitious, loose plan at the moment but we think it could go a
> long way—so long as the language is plain, and the process of design and
> writing is open and democratic.
>
>
> We started a small part of this in the Panton Principles (
pantonprinciples.org) , now under the aegis of OK(FN). They were developed
from 2080-2010 (Rufus Pollock, Cameron Neylon, John Wilbanks , PM-R and
Jordan Hatcher (Pro bono lawyer for OK/FN). PP are specific for Scientific
Data and were motivated by our perceived need to assert the Openness of
scientific data before people and organizations tried to enclose it. We
tied it informally to the blue/white OPEN DATA icon and this has been
moderately successful. BioMedCentral - the OpenAccess publisher, gave
considerable support and promotes the use of the OPEN DATA icon on its
publications. This hasn't spread as much as we would have liked, and many
publishers actively wish to keep "Open" as a muddy fuddy marketing term
("Open Washing").

Fair data goes beyond this, if I get it right, and promotes fair practice
as well as fair content. This is becoming very important as some publishers
wish to build walled gardens round "open data" where access is monitored
and effectively controlled

So this seems a welcome, if very challenging , advance

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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