[open-science] Launch of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science + Is It Open Data?

Fri Feb 19 15:18:18 UTC 2010

Hi Jonathan,

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>  http://www.pantonprinciples.org/

I have been monitoring the responses on FriendFeed [0], and some are
keen to use the OpenData icons. However, the icons seem fine with
requirement 1 and 3, they do not really encourage people to apply
principle 2 and 4. Just an observation...

Second thing is a request about the HTML of the endorsement field...
right now, all form fields are put into one <span class="signature">
element... might three fields perhaps be split up into separate <span>
elements, perhaps like:

<span class='signature'><span class='name'>Egon Willighagen</span>,
<span class='affiliation'>Uppsala University</span>, <span
class='country'>Sweden</span></span>

I would even go as far to use RDFa and FOAF for these bits of information:

<span xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" class='signature'
typeof="foaf.Person"><span rel='foaf:name'>Egon Willighagen</span>,
<span class='affiliation'>Uppsala University</span>, <span
rel='foaf:based_near'>Sweden</span></span>

That would very much make it more mashup-able, more machine readable,
and those mashups in turn would be good show cases of what Open Data
is really about: reuse. (Not sure how to fit the affiliation into
foaf.)

Egon

0.http://friendfeed.com/openchemicaldata/e6236e5a/panton-principles-endorse-open-data-go-visit

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