sparc - open data
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Filling in for Peter Murray Rust at SPARC panel on data, 3/13/12. Inspired by PMR's post at http://bit.ly/wzLerF - any errors in translation are mine.TRANSCRIPT
rorschach break
(channeling peter murray-rust
on screens with “PMR”)
“access to thispublicly fundedresearch should
be a human right”- PMR
1. the literature = data
http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/nutzbed/MPG_Elsevier.pdf
http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/nutzbed/MPG_Elsevier.pdf
http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/nutzbed/MPG_Elsevier.pdf
http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/nutzbed/MPG_Elsevier.pdf
“publicize the contracts”- PMR
http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/nutzbed/MPG_Elsevier.pdf
“Only use CC-BY, CC0 and other
BOAI-compliant licences.”
- PMR
2. the data = data
not flexible enoughfor all users
potential for lack ofinteroperability
credit: jordan hatcher, OKFN
database copyleft + © copyleft = ?
2010
“scientific data must be
libre from the point of creation”
- PMR
that means:licensestampmetadata
3. sometimes the scientists are the
worst place to start
user ability to generatedata eerily similarto mid-90s ability
to generate copyrighted works
“Privacy is about context, social situations, and control.”
- danah boyd
privacy is more complexthan ownership
volunteer must affirm desire to consent
volunteer must check each box
definitions pop up as user examines
read more at:http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/03/13/sparc2012-a-manifesto-in-absentia-for-open-data
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short url:http://bit.ly/wzLerF