[open-science] State of "Is it Open Data"?

Tue Aug 31 12:42:21 UTC 2010

Hi all,

PMR and I (on behalf of OKN) sent a few IsItOpenData enquiries yesterday
(BMC, PLoS, Nature, Mendeley), and already have one very positive response
from PLoS<http://www.isitopendata.org/enquiry/view/78d7400e-6d5e-4510-aff1-0d106bb9fcfa/>
.

I have two service functionality questions/suggestions to add to those
below, based on using the system:

   1. My link-heavy enquiry email unfortunately tends to be identified as
   Spam.  We might want to alert enquiry-writers to this possibility on the
   composition page, and either suggest they use few links or send an
   out-of-band personal email to give the recipient a heads-up.  Of course this
   increases the likelihood of (c) below.  Any other suggestions to avoid spam
   filters?
   2. Are the enquiry-writers alerted when they receive a response?  It
   doesn't appear so.  This is quite inconvenient, and could lead to delayed or
   incomplete resolution.  Would it be easy to add?

Thanks,
Heather

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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 20 July 2010 06:48, Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just extracted about 3.3M SMILES strings (chemical line notation)
> > from PubChem for a subset of structures I need to algorithm
> > validation. Of course, I'd like to share this data set Openly, as I
> > know at least one other person who is interested in it, and we would
> > like to compare results...
> >
> > So, I went over to "Is it Open Data" [0]. But browsing the queries, I
> > note that many are actually unanswered since the post in 2009... what
> > is the workflow here with respect to following up on queries?
>
> A big issue we have here at the moment is that:
>
> a) people are under no obligation to respond
> b) we probably should add a facility to ping automatedly enquiry
> creators if their enquiry has not got answered after a certain time.
> (E.g. my enquiry to UN [1] seems to have disappeared into the long
> grass so I should ping them again)
> c) people sometimes respond out of band (where you write to people you
> sort of know) (e.g. the planning alerts data enquiry [2] was
> successful but they didn't respond on the site and I think this was
> also true for some of PMR's enquiries). This is a problem as it means
> we don't have a public statement.
>
> [1]: <
> http://www.isitopendata.org/enquiry/view/a9610524-d391-465e-b785-b100eda99e37/
> >
> [2]: <
> http://www.isitopendata.org/enquiry/view/010f2fb6-1315-480d-995d-0134185f3dd6/
> >
>
> > Otherwise, it would be nice if people could express their interest in
> > a resolution for that particular query... sort of voting, so to say.
> > For example, I quite like the queries about the data in Chemistry
> > Central and J. Chem. Inf.
>
> I think this would be a great feature. Any interested coders :) ?
>
> Rufus
>
> > Egon
> >
> > 0.http://www.isitopendata.org/
> >
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