[open-science] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] Document Freedom Day - March 27th 2013

Wed Feb 27 18:00:15 UTC 2013

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Brian Hole <brian.hole at ubiquitypress.com>wrote:

> We've offered to advertise this for free on our data and software
> journals, and would be happy to be involved in any activities OKFN might
> organise.
>

Brilliant. FWIW I am judging the BMC data awards and documentation of the
heterogeneous file types would be valuable. This could spread to other
disciplines. We could and should reference it from OpenResearchData
Handbook.

>
> Brian
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> On 27 February 2013 15:58, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> This would be a wonderful thing for science and for a hackathon. Maybe we
>> could get publishers such as BMC and PLoS involved.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Erik Albers <eal at fsfe.org>
>> Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:46 PM
>> Subject: [okfn-discuss] Document Freedom Day - March 27th 2013
>> To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list <
>> okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
>>
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>> Dear List of OKFN,
>>
>> I am Erik and I work for the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) [1].
>> We
>> are a non-profit organisation that is dedicated to the furthering of Free
>> Software and working for freedom in the emerging digital society.
>>
>> Some days ago I had the chance to meet Beatrice Martini [2] and we had
>> some
>> exchange of ideas. She was very interested in our Document Freedom
>> campaign
>> that comes with an international day to celebrate the use of Open
>> Standards.
>> As it is a decentralised campaign that has its focus on local activities,
>> she told me to send a mail to this list to engage some of you to
>> participate
>> - - hence, I'll give it a try : )
>>
>> What is document freedom? Have you ever been stuck with some data that you
>> have not been able to open because it was in a format that needs some
>> specific kind of software to open it? Can you imagine that the same things
>> happen each day tens of thousands of times? Can you imagine how much
>> knowledge exchange doesn't happen just because sender and receiver
>> (intentionally or not) are using different data formats? Can you imagine
>> how
>> much knowledge future generations will lose if we keep on using
>> proprietary,
>> closed data formats that one day no one will ever be able to open because
>> the company behind it had business secrets and patents on it but then got
>> bankrupt?
>> Open Standards on the other hand are data formats that have an open
>> documentation and everyone is free to use or implement it in its own
>> software. The first characteristic (open documentation) guarantees that
>> now
>> and even in a hundred of years everybody interested can understand the
>> data
>> format and read it. The second characteristic (free to use) guarantees
>> that
>> now and in even in a hundred years everybody is free to write some piece
>> of
>> software to give everyone else the ability to read a specific piece of
>> data.
>> That is why everyone and every public institution - education and
>> administration, e.g. - should use Open Standards.
>>
>> This is exactly the point where our document freedom campaign comes in.
>> Every year on the last Wednesday of March, we run a global campaign that
>> is
>> called "Document Freedom Day" [3]. The concept of the campaign and its aim
>> is to raise awareness of the usefulness of Open Standards. Therefore we
>> encourage all kind of local groups to organise an event that highlights
>> the
>> importance of the use of Open Standards. Last year there have been more
>> than
>> 50 events in more than 20 countries [4]. This year, Document Freedom Day
>> (DFD) will be on the *27th of March 2013*.
>>
>> The most important part of the whole campaign is done by guys like you and
>> me! In order to celebrate information accessibility and Open Standards, we
>> heavily depend on local activity on public places, in universities, in
>> hackerspaces or everywhere you can imagine. I am pretty sure that you have
>> very good ideas what you can do to raise some attention. You can also
>> combine your activity with promotion for the OKFN.
>>
>> If you are interested now, please have a look at some ideas of what you
>> can
>> do [5] and feel free to support your event with our promotion material [6]
>> that you can order for no cost. You can order the material on the webpage
>> or
>> just reply to this email. Finally, if you are planning some activity,
>> don't
>> forget to register your event on our events page [7].
>>
>> Thank you very much for your attention.
>> Your participation in DFD can make the difference!
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance,
>>    Erik
>>
>> PS: If you have any questions - don't hesitate to ask me
>>
>> [1] http://www.fsfe.org
>> [2] http://okfn.org/members/bmartini/
>> [3] http://www.documentfreedom.org
>> [4] for more information see last year's report:
>> http://www.documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120403-01.en.html
>> [5] http://www.documentfreedom.org/getinvolved.en.html
>> [6] http://www.documentfreedom.org/promotion.en.html
>> [7] http://www.documentfreedom.org/events/events.en.html
>>
>>
>> - --
>> Erik Albers | https://fsfe.org/about/albers/albers.en.html
>> Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) - Campaigns & Community
>> Support us now: https://fsfe.org/support/?eal
>>
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