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

Mon May 9 11:47:31 UTC 2011

Fully agree with you John. The guide is a big, rich document with lots
of useful stuff in it. I just wanted to make sure that open licensing
was included - definitely don't think it should be the main thing, let
alone the only note. ;-)

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:15 PM, john wilbanks
<wilbanks at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> 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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