[open-science] feedback wanted on text-mining initiatives

[Richard Kidd]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Richard Kidd <KiddR at rsc.org<mailto:KiddR at rsc.org>> wrote:
> > Among the things which we probably should not address are:
> > * what can and cannot be mined and reproduced
Me:
>>I would plead strongly for the 'what can be reproduced' bit of this to be subject to a more open discussion. It's one of the most >>important issues.
Peter:
>The Open Knowledge Foundation lists are open to anyone to read or subscribe to and they are openly archived. I'm not clear how we >could be more open - it's our core business. We haven't hidden anything - in fact it's part of the ethos that everything is done openly. >There are times when a small group of people work together at a preliminary stage and then offer something but that is usually a >question practicalities. Even then they usually use an Open Etherpad.

Apols for the misunderstanding, my fault for using 'open' in a diff context - my request is that "what can and cannot be mined and reproduced" *should* be discussed and addressed - as it's the key issue. Am trying to get comments up on yr blog post but it's not behaving...

Richard

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