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

Tue Apr 26 17:45:06 UTC 2011

Brilliant. Are there others on this list who'd be interested in
participating or helping to organise a workshop on open data in
science in London in December?

J.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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> 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
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>> 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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