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

Thu Jul 28 13:55:42 UTC 2011

In case we prefer to do the drafting separate from that of Wikimedia,
I have set up a copy at
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/OKFN2EU:OA .

Daniel

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Daniel Mietchen
<daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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>>
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