[open-science] OKFN Open Science Mailing List will close on 31 Jan 2020 - where to next?

Mon Nov 18 14:00:31 UTC 2019

Thanks Jenny, Peter and al

I would welcome a coordinated effort to ensure preservation of all those
lists and find a solution to keep some running, including country specific
ones.

Also, what happened to okfn-discuss content?

Best

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:21 PM Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> I am also a very early user/supporter of the OKFN lists and regret their
> passing. It's certainly important to preserve the archive for historical
> research and enlightenment. (I'm on a multi-author paper about origins of
> openaccess through opensource and archives are very valuable.
>
> We aren't the only ones in this situation. There are many OKFN lists (
> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/) and some will confront the same
> problems. A lot are for managing OKFN business but here are some examples
> (I have omitted country specific ones and those with no description).
>
> List Description
> annotator-dev Discussion of web annotation technology and standards
> cienciaaberta Grupo de trabalho em Ciência Aberta
> data-catalogs A list for people interested in open data catalogs.
> data-driven-journalism List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in
> Journalism.
> euopendata List for people interested in open data in Europe
> fossil-bank Discuss the wiki of libre and shareable works.
> fragastaten List for Swedish FROIDE platform at FrågaStaten.se in Sweden
> iRail iRail mailing list
> mydata-open-data Personal and Open Data
> od-discuss Open Definition Discussion List
> odc-discuss Open Data Commons Discuss List
> ok-scotland List for those interested in open knowledge in Scotland.
> okbr-coord Coordenadores de projetos, alguns prestadores de serviços e
> núcleo da Open Knowledge Brasil
> okf-fi OKF Finland newsletter list
> open-access A list to discuss issues surrounding true open access.
> open-archaeology Open data in archaeology
> open-bibliography List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
> open-development List for those interested in open knowledge in development
> open-economics Discussion list for Working Group on Open Information in
> Economics
> open-education List for those interested in issues relating to open
> education - including open educational data and open educational resources
> open-geodata List for Working Group on Open Geodata
> open-glam A list for people interested in open data and open content in
> the cultural heritage sector.
> open-humanities A list for people interested in the use of open source
> tools and open access in humanities teaching and research
> open-linguistics A list for those interested in open data in linguistics.
> open-science Discussion list for the open science community
> open-science-dev Open Science and Citizen Cyber Science Dev List
> open-sustainability open-sustainability
> open-transport A list for those interested in Open Data about Transport
> open-visualisation A list for those interested in open-source
> visualisation technologies
> openbiblio-dev Open Bibliographic Tools and Data Developer List
> opendesign The Open Design + Hardware discussion list.
> opensourcepharma Email discussion list on open source pharma
> pd-discuss Public Domain discuss list
> product Open Product Data Mailing List
> school-of-data Mailing list for the School of Data, a joint initiative of
> the OKFN and P2PU
>
> Can we coordinate efforts?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 7:09 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Tom Moritz, 18/11/19 07:06:
>> > I would think the Internet Archive is an obvious site for archiving the
>> > OKFN...?
>>
>> The wayback machine is not supposed to be a substitute for the
>> preservation of archives. It's possible to just dump the entire
>> pipermail/ directory in an archive.org item but it won't be searchable,
>> among other things.
>>
>> Federico
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