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

Tue Aug 31 13:07:48 UTC 2010

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Heather Piwowar <hpiwowar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/>
> .
>

This is great. They say they have to be clearer about data, so I think we
should push them gently on the actual factual questions and also persuade
them to add licences/buttons.

>
> 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?
>
> This was all done with volunteer labour, I think. We would really love
continuing volunteers to take this on. It may be that we can seek funding if
this is seen as a success but I think we have to do this ourselves at
present. So:
.... IIOD is clearly a valuable OKF function... please volunteer to help
enhance it even further

> Thanks,
> Heather
>

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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
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>> 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/
>> >
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>> > 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
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>> > 0.http://www.isitopendata.org/
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