[open-science] Open Science Microformats/Pattern languages? was Re: Launch of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science + Is It Open Data?

Wed Feb 24 07:42:47 UTC 2010

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:18 AM, John Wilbanks <wilbanks at creativecommons.org
> wrote:

> We tend to prefer RDFa over microformats, as it is infinitely more
> scalable.
>
> Also, I would caution against badging the principles without adding *legal*
> information to data. Self-asserting the principles does not actually comply
> with the principles - only the use of an unambiguous legal tool opens up the
> principles.
>

I am an advocate of just adding the button. I understand and support the
work on legal agreements but the scientist must be freed from making
decisions about these as far as possible. I  (or my colleagues - human and
otherwise) have created about 150,000 buttons:

http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/crystaleye/

and it would be worse if we we hadn't. That data is "Open Data". It points
to the OKD page and if Rufus/John want to refine what is on that page,
great. It's a meta statement.

There's a greater danger that I blow myself up in the laboratory than that
the "Open Data" button misfires. I'll worry about the former.

P.

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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