[open-science] Digital Agenda: more open access to scientific information - Commission seeks views

Thu Jul 28 13:16:47 UTC 2011

A publicly editable page for drafting a response on behalf of
Wikimedia has now been set up at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCom/OA/EU . I would appreciate if we
could coordinate our responses.

Thanks and cheers,

Daniel

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Peter: I think we should definitely aim to make the Panton Papers as
> accessible as possible for non-experts and non-specialists. This
> should not be at the expense of the issue and domain specific detail
> that makes them valuable in understanding barriers, challenges and
> opportunities to opening up scientific data.
>
> Jenny: would you be willing to lead on drafting something on behalf of the OKF?
>
> All: we'd also strongly encourage all open scientific data experts,
> practitioners and others to consider submitting your thoughts
> separately!
>
> I've blogged about this here:
>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2011/07/18/new-eu-consultation-on-open-access-to-scientific-information/
>
> I'm sure this goes without saying here, but I definitely think it is
> worth explicitly emphasising the value of material which is open as
> per opendefinition.org and the Panton Principles!
>
> J.
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd strongly encourage people interested in open scientific data to
>>> submit something to the EC's consultation on open access to scientific
>>> information!
>>>
>>>
>>> http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/890&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
>>>
>>> http://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/scientific_information/consultation_en.htm
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>
>> Jonathan - this looks very important. Calls like this are also a good way of
>> pushing us to formulate our ideas and bring together the important themes.
>>
>> Is this a role for the Panton Papers? Should we try to craft these in such a
>> way that they are useful for policy makers? For example I am currently
>> interested in things like text-ming (for re-use) semantic bibliography and
>> citations (for more accurate assessement of scientific output), proper
>> simple publication of semantic data (very relevant to publishers, etc. -
>> perhaps not for this call).
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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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>
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