[open-science] Fran Berman (RPI) "We Need a Research Data Census" Comm. ACM Dec 2010

Fri Nov 26 23:44:06 UTC 2010

FYI --

"We Need a Research Data Census" by Francine Berman (RPI)Communications of
the ACM
Vol. 53 No. 12, Pages 39-41
10.1145/1859204.1859220

'The increasing volume of research data highlights the need for reliable,
cost-effective data storage and preservation at the national scale."
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/12/102121-we-need-a-research-data-census/fulltext

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On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Heather Piwowar <hpiwowar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Open Science,
>
> Wanted to let you know that Nature has responded to our IsItOpenData?
> enquiry.  Their response is at the IsItOpenData site, and I've also blogged
> it <http://science.okfn.org/2010/11/26/natures-response-to-isitopendata/>on the open science blog (psst anyone else want to blog there too?  It is
> fun!).
>
> Note that Nature's response requires some careful reading.  Nonetheless,
> kudos to them for responding.
>
> That wraps up my IsItOpenData enquiries for a while.  Thanks to everyone
> who helped make it happen.  To make future enquiries easier, I pulled
> together a quick blog post with tips<http://science.okfn.org/2010/11/26/isitopendata-tips/>and lessons learned.  Please add more info in the comments!
>
> Sincerely,
> Heather
>
> --
>
> Heather Piwowar
>
> DataONE postdoc with NESCent and Dryad
>   remote from Dept of Zoology, UBC, Vancouver Canada
> hpiwowar at nescent.org
> http://researchremix.org
> @researchremix
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Heather Piwowar <hpiwowar at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Egon,
>>
>> We did indeed get a response from PLoS and BMC.  Haven't heard from
>> Nature.  Also, in response to a slightly different email about open API
>> data, Mendeley clarified their open data policies.
>>
>> The summary of the PLoS and BMC response is on the new OKFN science blog:
>>
>> http://science.okfn.org/2010/09/13/bmc-and-plos-all-the-data-is-cc-by-enjoy/
>>
>> I have plans to do a quick writeup of the Mendeley response and also a
>> "tips for IsItOpenData enquiries" post to summarize what I learned about
>> avoiding spam filters etc.  I'll finish those Real Soon Now.
>>
>> Alas I don't have time at this point to send the letter out to other
>> publishers, though others are certainly welcome to!  Let me know if I can be
>> of help.  Anita de Waard had useful suggestions about making the definition
>> of metadata looser before we send it out to commercial publishers.  The most
>> recent version of the letter on etherpad incorporates this feedback:
>> http://okfnpad.org/isitopenLetters
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Heather
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Egon Willighagen <
>> egon.willighagen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Heather,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Heather Piwowar <hpiwowar at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > We've drafted a letter to send to publishers on behalf of the OKF
>>> through
>>> > IsItOpen, requesting clarification on journal policies with respect to
>>> Open
>>> > Data.  We've received feedback on the draft from several sources and
>>> the
>>> > letter has improved greatly as a result.  Your turn!
>>>
>>> I just ran into this email while cleaning up my inbox... I was
>>> wondering about the status of this effort... was there much response?
>>> did you write up a summary?
>>>
>>> Egon
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr E.L. Willighagen
>>> Postdoctoral Research Associate
>>> University of Cambridge
>>> Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/
>>> LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw
>>> Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/
>>> PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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