[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 18:07:24 UTC 2011

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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).

There is a decent OAI-PMH library for python that I have a very basic
CKAN importer for (from last year and broken, would need to go into
harvester architecture). I believe this also contains a
backend-pluggable WSGI server app.

- Friedrich

>> 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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