[open-science] Organising an open data event at SWAT4LS Workshop (London, December 2011)

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> +1
>
> I can contribute logistical support, advice, and suchlike remotely if
> WG members think this is worth pursuing.
>
> FWIW I'd most like to see some kind of hands on workshop where
> participants work towards some tangible, useful output! ;-)
>

I think that Open Research Reports (Open Research Maps) would be an ideal
target. I think I have mentioned this before, but it's an idea that takes
Open articles from PMC, organizes them by disease and creates a resource
(which we believe will be better than anything currently available). The
idea has variously included DavidS, Leslie, Cameron, Ben,, Graham etc. We
see this as a figurative and literal map of resach in these areas including
timelines, geolocation, citation links, etc.This could really hep the effort
take off.

>
> Peter: think we should do an open data in science hackday? Is there
> anything which you think we could/should make? (Not just code - e.g.
> could do a nice printable open data in science 'propaganda kit' with
> stickers, leaflets, short video, etc...)
>
> YES.

It could do a huge amount for those who cannot read the current literature
because of the policy of pricing  everyone except those in rich Western
universities out of the market. There will be a lot of value for disease
groups, third-world etc.

We probably need fresh impetus and maybe a volunteer who puts this at the
top of their list

> All: perhaps we could put suggestions for things to build on
> ideas.okfn.org tagged 'science'.
>
> J.
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Egon Willighagen
> <egon.willighagen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jenny,
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Jenny Molloy <jcmcoppice12 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> OKF have been contacted by the organisers of  an international workshop
> >> of Semantic Web Application in Life Sciences to be held in London in
> >> December (last year's programme http://www.swat4ls.org/2010/progr.php )
> >>
> >> They are interested in holding a open data related satellite event, like
> an
> >> hackathon or clinics on exporting and integrating open scientific data,
> or
> >> an evening discussion on open data in science.
> >
> > I think this is a very good idea! Our exercise on the
> > IsItOpenData(LODD) (I'll try to catch up next week!) shows the Open
> > nature of data in the LOD network is not well-defined, and that there
> > is a lot of confusion.
> >
> >> Would anyone be keen to help organise something? Let me know by the end
> of
> >> the week and we can get back to them with some ideas, or at least an
> >> expression of interest!
> >
> > I will not be able to attend this meeting, nor available for
> > organization, but quite interested otherwise!
> >
> > Egon
> >
> >
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Peter Murray-Rust
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Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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