[open-science] Fwd: Open data and Panton Principles

Mon Jun 28 13:12:05 UTC 2010

A question from Libby Bishop at the UK Data Archive...

Would be most interested to hear responses to this!

Jonathan

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Hello,

I am trying to establish which, if any "Open" organisations explicitly
endorse open (public/free) access to data.

I have read through the Panton Principles which seem to be the
clearest, strongest statement of openness of which I am aware.
However, in the FAQ, it says that the PP have not been formally
adopted by OSI, FSF, or EFF.

Moreover, according to Stevan Harnand and his recent posts on the
American Scientist Open Access forum, OA advocates only open access to
publications, but not research data.

Here at UKDA, we advocate free access to data for non-commercial use.
However, the nature of some social science data, especially
qualitative data, (confidentiality promises made, sensitive data,
disclosure risks) obligates us to share data via a licence so that
those "reusing" data do not violate the conditions and terms of use
specified by the data depositor.

In sum, it sounds as though there is at least some variation among
diverse "open" initiatives as to what extent data per se should be
public and free.  Is this statement correct?  Any details you can add
would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Libby

Libby Bishop, Ph.D.
Research Data Management Senior Officer
UK Data Archive-a service provider for the Economic and  Social Data
Service (ESDS)

www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata

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