[open-science] Fwd: New edition UKDA guide: Managing and Sharing Data

Fri May 6 16:23:27 UTC 2011

I can't agree with John more. Well put.

This is a bit of an aside, but I have 2 years of funding for a Research Fellow/postdoctoral fellow to address policy issues in the data and bioresource commons. The issues will largely surround animal models for human diseases, but can also capture issues related to drug discovery more broadly.  If any of you know of a person interested in moving to the University of Alberta for two years to work with me on this opportunity (with the caveat that they also be keen on analysing data and publishing paper, of course), please do let me know so that I can forward a formal job advertisement. I would prefer a person with a science policy/legal background, although a law degree is not essential. The position could start anytime in the Fall through January of next year.

Thanks
Tania

Contact:
Tania Bubela
Associate Professor, School of Public Health
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
tbubela at ualberta.ca
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this is a trending part of the data conversation that i am seeing
worldwide - licenses on data are considered a tiny part of overall data
management. the UK is the most progressive, and the US default position
of public domain is nice (though we are continuing to press for its
being in the PD globally, and not just domestically). but when the
scientists who are not on this list gather to talk data with their
funders, IP is rarely at the top of the agenda.

it is of course essential, but far from sufficient, for data to be
"open" - if it's not annotated, doesn't have provenance, doesn't have
tracks of how it came from its original raw forms to the intermediate
processed forms that are so much more useful, doesn't have tracks of the
feedback loops that processed it, etc.

i now spend much of my time these days *outside* the open science world,
in what they call out here the "big data" world. most of the data people
i talk to are obsessed with all of the ways data is made a) useful via
tooling and annotation and b) social (in the sense of the feedback loops
and conversations among big data users, not in the facebook sense) and
are not very concerned with the openness of data in the absence of a)
and b).

we've got to get serious as a community about addressing these things
ourselves, or we risk becoming a one-note community obsessed with
whether or not data is "open" rather than joining the debate about how
to make data *useful* - and making the open argument a key to that
broader one.

My .02

jtw

On 5/6/2011 4:55 AM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Surprised to see only one mention of "open data" on page 30. A shame that
> there isn't a brief step by step guide to openly licensing data in the
> guide!
>
> Does anyone know any of the authors of this that we could contact - to see
> if they'd consider putting this in next time?
>
> J.
>
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