[open-science] Open Science Summit interview

Mon Aug 1 21:34:42 UTC 2011

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Joseph Jackson <joseph.jackson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Wonderful, thanks for this Peter.  Look forward to talking on Weds at which
> time we'll have a good idea of what the program looks like for this year and
> how we can best work with Open Knowledge Foundation.
>
>
We have put forward sessions at Science Online London which are exploring
the idea of Open Research Reports (ORRs) - collections of Open material
(papers, bibliography, data) related to selected subjects - e.g. disease.
http://www.scienceonlinelondon.org/programme.html
We are continuing this with a pre-workshop hackfest at SemWeb Applic. and
Tools for Life Sci http://www.swat4ls.org/ where we intend to continue to
create ORRs.

We think that ORRs are a very good way for people outside mainstream
academia to get involved as the literature is - by definition - Open. It's a
black mark for academia that so much of their output is hidden - we hope
that this initiative will help to change that

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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