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

Tue Apr 26 18:22:06 UTC 2011

Me too....

Graham


> From: m.hahnel07 at imperial.ac.uk
> To: jonathan.gray at okfn.org; pm286 at cam.ac.uk
> CC: david.shotton at zoo.ox.ac.uk; steelgraham at hotmail.com; bosteen at gmail.com; chan at utsc.utoronto.ca; open-science at lists.okfn.org
> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:16:04 +0100
> Subject: RE: [open-science] Organising an open data event at SWAT4LS Workshop (London, December 2011)
> 
> I'd be up for this Jonathan,
> 
> Mark
> ________________________________________
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> Sent: 26 April 2011 18:45
> To: Peter Murray-Rust
> Cc: David Shotton; Graham Steel; Benjamin O'Steen; Leslie Chan; open-science at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: Re: [open-science] Organising an open data event at SWAT4LS Workshop (London, December 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:
> >
> >
> > 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
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Dr E.L. Willighagen
> >> > Postdoctoral Researcher
> >> > Institutet för miljömedicin
> >> > Karolinska Institutet (http://ki.se/imm)
> >> > 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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> >>
> >>
> >>
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