"Open Data Excuse" Bingo
We might want to use it in a paper People may misinterpret the data Thieves will use it There's no API
I don't mind, but someone else might Lawyers want a custom License It's too complicated We will get too many enquiries
It's too big Terrorists will use it Poor Quality There's already a project to...
What if we want to sell it later It's not very interesting Data Protection We'll get spam
For open data teams; print out a copy and put it on your office wall. Cross out each excuse people give you. There are no prizes, but you can tweet "bingo! #openDataExcuses" if you think it might make you feel better
Generate your own bingo grids at http://data.dev8d.org/devbingo/
Main goal: to coordinate and pool university-led scholarly communication activities in Europe, particularly in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), in view of enabling Open Science as the standard practice.
Outcome: more efficient, fair, inclusive and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem for European researchers.
Our aim is to develop an open source standardized online platform, the Open Encyclopedia System, for building and maintaining online encyclopedias in the fields of humanities and social sciences that provide readers worldwide free and unrestricted online access to scientific content (Open Access).
OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.
Die Zahl der wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen und der Wissenschaftsjournale steigt kontinuierlich. Wissenschaftler sehen sich in wachsendem Umfang neuer wissenschaftlicher Lektüre in ihrem Fachgebiet gegenüber und sind mit dem Anspruch konfrontiert, im Wettbewerb mit Fachkollegen eigene Ergebnisse sichtbar zu publizieren. Gleichzeitig ist die Einschätzung, welche Zeitschriften seriöse Publikationsorgane sind, zunehmend schwierig, insbesondere für Nicht-Wissenschaftler. Unter der Vielzahl neu gegründeter Online-Zeitschriften finden sich auch sogenannte Pseudo-Journale, deren Auswahl, Redaktion und Begutachtung der eingereichten Beiträge zuweilen intransparent ist oder wissenschaftlichen Standards nicht genügt. Darauf weisen die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina, die französische Académie des sciences und die britische Royal Society hin. Die Akademien haben gemeinsame Leitsätze für hochwertige Publikationen in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften formuliert. Diese wurden dem EU-Kommissar für Forschung Wissenschaft und Innovation, Carlos Moedas, gestern in Brüssel vorgestellt.
In der fortlaufenden Diskussion um den freien und möglichst ungehinderten Zugang zu Forschungsergebnissen stellt sich immer wieder die Frage, wie die produktive Nachnutzung von Forschungsergebnissen rechtlich umfassend abgesichert werden kann. Die Allianz der deutschen Wissenschaftsorganisationen weist darauf hin, dass sich standardisierte, offene Lizenzen für Open-Access-Publikationen dazu in idealer Weise eignen.
Science is based on building on, reusing and openly criticising the published body of scientific knowledge.
For science to effectively function, and for society to reap the full benefits from scientific endeavours, it is crucial that science data be made open.
By open data in science we mean that it is freely available on the public internet permitting any user to download, copy, analyse, re-process, pass them to software or use them for any other purpose without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. To this end data related to published science should be explicitly placed in the public domain.
Formally, we recommend adopting and acting on the following principles:
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When it comes to getting data up on the web, I am actually a great optimist. I think things are moving in the right direction and with high profile people like Tim Berners-Lee making the case, the with meme of “Linked Data” spreading, and a steadily improving set of tools and interfaces that make all the complexities of RDF, OWL, OAI-ORE, and other standards disappear for the average user, there is a real sense that this might come together. It will take some time
Open Notebook Science is the practice of making the entire primary record of a research project publicly available online as it is recorded. This involves placing the personal, or laboratory, notebook of the researcher online along with all raw and processed data, and any associated material, as this material is generated. The approach may be summed up by the slogan 'no insider information'. It is the logical extreme of transparent approaches to research and explicitly includes the making available of failed, less significant, and otherwise unpublished experiments
For the Open Science workshop at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing I wrote a very long essay as an introductory paper. It turned out that this was far too long for the space available so an extremely shortened version was submitted for the symposium proceedings. I thought I would post the full length essay in installments here as a prelude to cleaning it up and submitting to an appropriate journal.
An informal collection of activities / projects/ resources with links and brief descriptions that subscribe to a model of open and free sharing of resources, data, information, tools, content, etc., etc.
I am currently sitting at the dining table of Peter Murray-Rust with Egon Willighagen opposite me talking to Jean-Claude Bradley. We pulling together sets of data from Jean-Claude’s UsefulChem project into CML to make it more semantically rich and do a bunch of cool stuff. Jean-Claude has a recently published preprint on Nature Precedings of a paper that has been submitted to JoVE. Egon was able to grab the InChiKeys from the relevant UsefulChem pages and passing those to CDK via a script that he wrote on the spot (which he has also just blogged) generated CML react for those molecules.
Technical Communicators will play an important role in the future of scientific communication. As grant funding bodies and federal agencies like the National Institute of Health (NIH) require Open Access (OA) publishing as part of the dissemination proces
...research already in progress is opened up to allow labs anywhere in the world to contribute experiments. The deeply networked nature of modern laboratories, and the brief down-time that all labs have between projects, make this concept quite feasible.
T. Heck, I. Blümel, S. Fahrer, D. Lohner, J. Schneider, and L. Visser. (April 2020)German title: Öffene Praktiken in Wissenschaft und Lehre – eine Diskussion mit den Anwendern*innen aus der Praxis" The file includes a German version..