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• 19 May 09
  

  Bill Anderson

  Cameron Neylon's summary of a conversation regarding sharing, publishing, and licensing public funded research data. Link to FriendFeed conversation in the comments.

  open data data sharing data publication science_commons license

• 15 May 09
  

  Mike Chelen

  open public science data license

  • Peter Murray-Rust and others at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at Cambridge
  • conversation we had over lunch with Peter, Jim Downing, Nico Adams, Nick Day and Rufus Pollock
  • appropriate way to license published scientific data
  • value of share-alike or copyleft provisions of GPL and similar licenses
  • spreading the message and use of Open Content
  • prevent “freeloaders” from being able to use Open material and not contribute back to the open community
  • presumption in this view is that a license is a good, or at least acceptable, way of achieving both these goals
  • allow people the freedom to address their concerns through copyleft approaches
  • Rufus
  • concerned more centrally with enabling re-use and re-purposing of data as far as is possible
  • don’t tend to be concerned about freeloading
  • worried by the potential for licensing to make it harder to re-use and re-mix disparate sets of data and content into new digital objects
  • “license”, will have scientists running screaming in the opposite direction
  • we focused on what we could agree on
  • common position statement
  • area of best practice for the publication of data that arises from public science
  • there is a window of opportunity to influence funder positions
  • data sharing policies
  • “following best practice”
  • make it easy for researchers to deliver on their obligations
  • providing clear guidance and tools
  • if it is widely accepted by their research communities
  • “best practice is X”
  • enable re-use and re-purposing of that data
  • share-alike approaches as a community expectation
  • Explicit statements of the status of data are required and we need effective technical and legal infrastructure to make this easy for researchers.
  • “Where a decision has been taken to publish data deriving from public science research, best practice to enable the re-use and re-purposing of that data, is to place it explicitly in the public domain via {one of a small set of protocols e.g. cc0 or PDDL}.”
  • focuses purely on what should be done once a decision to publish has been made
  • data generated by public science
  • describing this as best practice it also allows deviations that may, for whatever reason, be justified by specific people in specific circumstances

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