WWW 2007 Presentation
[This is roughly my presentation for the meeting, with conclusions. I may edit it during the day so early feed readers will have captured early versions]
The presentation concentrates on science, but applies to all scholarly journals. Addresses copyright and licenses; patents are completely separate issue.
Background Resources:
petermr posts:
We must act:
- Need statement on Open Data (c.f. Open Access)
- Funders must insist on Open Data
- Institutions must insist that staff publish Open Data
- Authors should use Science Commons Author Addenda in all data
- Publishers should make all supporting information Open
In any case the scientific semantic web (2.0) will become so powerful it will ultimately sweep away twentieth century practices. Publishers, you have been warned.
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[...] The focus of the panel on Building a Semantic Web in Which Data Can Participate was on openness with talks from Steve Coast (on his OpenStreepMap work), Peter Murray-Rust (a chemist at the University of Cambridge who used his blog as the basis for his presentation to describe his passion for openness of scientific data), Ian Davis Rob Stiles (from Talis in the UK who described the need to provide open licences for databases and the work Talis is engaged in in developing such licences) and Jamie Taylor from MetaWeb and a developer of Freebase - an open Web 2.0 database, which has been exciting many Web developers recently - as can be seen from Denny Vrandecic’s blog posting. [...]