<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Jenny Molloy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jenny.molloy@okfn.org">jenny.molloy@okfn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Dear All<div><br></div><div>The drafting session yesterday evening yielded a useful outline which can now be fleshed out and commented on. Please do take a look at <a href="http://okfnpad.org/sciencewg-RS-SAPE" target="_blank">http://okfnpad.org/sciencewg-RS-SAPE</a> and add your comments/ideas. </div>
<div><br></div><div>It is currently in note form and essentially documents our discussion last night, so if anybody wants to edit points into sentences and paragraphs that would be very useful! We will review again on 30th July to assess how much work needs to be done before submission prior to 5th August.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for everyone's help thus far :)</div><div><br></div><div>Jenny<br><br><br></div></blockquote><div>Thanks very much Jenny and everyone for an excellent draft. I don't have major comments (I tend to work in disciplines without social aspects (crystallography, chemistry, software). I think 20 years is too long - it's quite possible that the primary author could be dead and you get the same paralysis as in copyright (we have examples of 120+ year old interlibrary loans which couldn't be released because the library couldn't be sure that all the authors were dead. And it gives a blanket policy. Thus Imperial College Chemistry have refused to allow ANY chemistry theses to be visible for 5 years - there is a serious danger people might read them and find out what people were doing. If we say "20 years" it becomes easy to legitimize "this is only 5 years" which - IMO is unacceptable and stems from laziness and possessiveness rather than any objective measure.<br>
<br>Very sorry I coun't make it and many thanks to those in different timezeones - there is a real feeling of community.<br><br></div></div><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>
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