[open-bibliography] [open-science] Proposal - in less than 24 hours, can we come up with an idea for a breakout session at Science Online London

Fri Jul 22 17:54:08 UTC 2011

On 22 July 2011 15:51, Dr. Micah Altman <Micah_Altman at harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> Note that we are not downloading the text or the data sets, simply
>> recording their existence and providing the link to them.
>>
>> We have done this for several years for crystallographic data (which seems
>> to be impicitly agreed to be "data-and-therefore-not-copyrightable") and
>> have downloaded the data sets. In the present proposal we are not even doing
>> this.
>>
>> It may be more appropriate simply to do the Open Access first
>>
>> The attraction of this is that the results can go straight into CKAN
>> (metadata about open access) and Open Bibliography. Obviously full open
>> access publishers (BMC, PLoS) are straightforward. Hybrid journals (e.g.
>> Springer, Wiley, Elsevier, ACS) are the most immediate gain. This will
>> locate and publicize the Open Access papers, even when hidden in traditional
>> closed journals.
>>
>
> It would be interesting to me to also set up a pilot virtual archive of the
> harvested open data records in our DataVerse network system. Which would
> expose those resources to different communities. If this is all at CKAN I'd
> need to be able to wrap the CKAN API in an OAI-PMH proxy.. Not sure how
> trivial this is. And feeding the other way -- a number of virtual archives

A CKAN -> OAI-PMH proxy would be pretty trivial (we already have
mapping to dcat + dublin core style RDF).

Rufus

> are expose via OAI-PMH with CC'licenses, the licensing information is on a
> LOCKSS manifest page -- so it the license, OAI set etc can be
> programatically determined. Any interest in this as a data source?
>
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