[open-bibliography] FAQ for http://opendefinition.org/

Sun Jan 16 09:39:15 UTC 2011

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Thanks Daniel, developing an FAQ along these lines and especially including
> the info [1] in a well organized form will be very useful.  Thanks to both
> Peter and Adrian
> for their well-reasoned arguments against NC on this thread. I had not
> appreciated the
> extent of the problems with NC before. A lot of what's currently on the web
> on this topic seems
> emotional and dogmatic. We need to stick to reasoned explanations to be
> persuasive.
> The FAQ format should serve well for this.
> --Jim
>

And thanks to you Jim,

The great thing about the OKF is that we tackle difficult problems and see
how far we can get and agree and how we managenecessary disagreements.
That's what's happended with Open Biblio.

>
>  Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Rufus, all,
> >
> > On 14.01.2011, at 21:36, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> >
> > > It would seem useful (see e.g. [1]) to have an FAQ for
> opendefinition.org covering such items as:
> > >
> > > * Non-commercial (why excluded)
> > > * Different domains (science, bibliography etc)
> > > * How to contribute
> > > * Guides to open content and data
> >
> > this is indeed a very good point. Would be good to have this FAQ for the
> OKD.
> >
> > > Any other items people can think of?
> > >
> > > We've already got a fair amount of material on each of these.
> > >
> > > @Daniel: as coordinator would you be able to put the FAQ page and pull
> > > together links and material?
> >
> > I will do so. I just started in a pad for collaboration. Would be really
> good if people could contribute and help oversee the work to make sure I am
> not missing some important points.
> >
> > http://de.okfnpad.org/okd-faq
> >
> > Later this information can be pulled into the website or wiki
> >
> > > [1]:
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-bibliography/2011-January/000756.html
> >
> > Just realised that I have not been subscribed to this list. There now :)
> >
> > Regards
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Dietrich
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Peter Murray-Rust
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