[open-science] Open Science Policy Platform - Open Science Working Group Representative

Tue Mar 22 11:01:53 UTC 2016

I support Jenny Molloy's nomination for this.

Best wishes,

Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org
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This is a list of items and occasions where I have worked with Jenny Molloy on Open Science. It's probably not comprehensive!

As an undergraduate, running the international Triple Helix student science community, she organized a meeting in Cambridge in 2009 on Open Source and Open Access to which she invited me and other speakers to a large audience. This meeting had a significant effect in promoting Openness in Cambridge.

Jenny helped launch the Panton Principles for Open Science Data in 2010 (http://pantonprinciples.org/about/ ). This led to my ability to co-launch the Panton Fellowships in 2012.

At that time she was a key member of the Open Knowledge Foundation's Working Group on Open Science and organised informal meetings in Cambridge. Later she spent 3 months in Open Knowledge sponsored by the UK BBSRC as part of her Doctorate studies. She has organized projects in Africa with IDRC and Open Science in CERN.

In 2014 she was awarded a Flash grant by the Shuttleworth Foundation which is a mark of potential to become a future Fellow.

She also created two papers with me and others on Open content mining and helped promote "the Right to Read is the Right to Mine". One with Open Forum Europe - http://www.openforumacademy.org/library/ofa-fellows-reference-library - and the second a position paper
http://contentmine.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/responsible-content-mining-1.pdf
I believe these have gone a long way to set the scene in the current European debate on reform to Copyright for mining.

In 2015 she gave an invited presentation to OpenCon in Brussels and  later ran OpenCon Cambridge.

in 2014, when I was awarded a Shuttleworth Fellowship for ContentMine (a project to liberate all scientific facts) I asked Jenny to be a key member of the team and she is now Manager. She has managed the organization of the project together over these years.

When she returned from Oxford, she took charge of two granted projects in Plant Sciences, (Open) Synthetic Biology and Open Plant. She runs at least three regular meetings in Cambridge, is a key member of the Cambridge Makespace, runs events ranging from conservation to family Open Science. I have known her run 7 events in 5 days.

Jenny achieves all this with a quiet competence so that we do not realise how much work she puts in. Having worked closely with her I can testify how hard she works.

Europe needs a good proportion of Early Career Researchers in the new Open Science initiative. Objectively I can say that there is no other Early Career Researcher in the world who has spent so much time on, and been so effective in promoting, Openness than Dr Jenny Molloy.

Peter Murray-Rust
Reader Emeritus University of Cambridge
Shuttleworth Fellow Alumnus
ContentMine.org

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Jenny Molloy <jenny.molloy at okfn.org<mailto:jenny.molloy at okfn.org>> wrote:
Dear Open Science Working Group

Konrad Förstner suggests we should put forward someone for the EU Open Science Policy Platform.
More info: https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-policy-platform

This would be a good chance to take forward our views and interests at a high level in EU science policy. The nominations need to be in next Tuesday so it's a bit last minute!

I have been considering it and would be happy to put myself forward, but if anyone else strongly wants to be the representative then please let us all know.

Also, it would be great to get a feeling for who else is going for this and whether it is looking like there is a good set of applications from the open community.

Best wishes

Jenny

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