[Open-access] Eric Raymond offer to help with "Open Access"

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>:
> > This mailing list (open-access) is dedicated to finding a clear practical
> > solution. We are not prepared to compromise on the line between
> commercial
> > and non-commercial nor on constraints on re-use. We are also committed to
> > creating real valuable examples of Openness so that we convince by
> practice
> > as well as discourse.
>
> I may have missed something.  Where[s the signup for the list.
>
( http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access )
I think you've already signed up. Your mail has got through.


> After I wrote my comment on your blog entry, I ound out about the
> Definition of Free Cultural Works.  The DFCW is at
>
> http://freedomdefined.org/Definitio
>
> There are some good ideas in it.  One is the requirement for open formats;
> another is and the prohibition on technical restrictions.  These cover
> issues that aren't present in software source code.
>

I am sure that the OKF community know about this. And the OKDefinition
promotes these ideas as well.

>
> You might want to consider whether your Open Definition can bre harmonized
> or merged with the DFCW.
>

I suspect that they already are, in practice.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_knowledge

As set out in the Open Knowledge
Definition<http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/>,
knowledge is open if "one is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it
without legal, social or technological restriction."

In this sense Open Knowledge can be seen as being a superset of Open
Data<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data>,
Open Content <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Content>, Open
Access<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_%28publishing%29>with
the aim of highlighting the commonalities between these different
groups. The concept is also heavily related to Open
Source<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source>,
with many concepts and processes directly borrowed (or 'ported') from
previous work on Open Source
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source>(for example the Open
Knowledge Definition <http://okd.okfn.org/> is directly derived from the Open
Source Definition <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Definition>).

P.


-- 
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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