-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
A breakthrough on data licensing for public science?
,----[ Quote ]
| I spent two days this week visiting Peter Murray-Rust and others at the
| Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at Cambridge. There was a lot of
| useful discussion and I learned an awful lot that requires more thinking and
| will no doubt result in further posts. In this one I want to relay a
| conversation we had over lunch with Peter, Jim Downing, Nico Adams, Nick Day
| and Rufus Pollock that seemed extremely productive. It should be noted that
| what follows is my recollection so may not be entirely accurate and shouldn’t
| be taken to accurately represent other people’s views necessarily.
`----
http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2009/05/15/a-breakthrough-on-data-licensing-for-public-science/
NESTA, Open Innovation, Creative Commons
,----[ Quote ]
| Lately I've been spending a fair amount of time talking to the folks at NESTA
| in the UK. There's a lot of interest in how the kinds of legal and technical
| infrastructures we're building at Creative Commons might work at scale in the
| UK, and yesterday NESTA hosted me and James Boyle (founder of Creative
| Commons, and a guiding force in our science work from the very beginning) at
| an event labeled Open Innovation and Intellectual Property, jointly hosted by
| the Wellcome Trust and Creative Commons.
`----
http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2009/05/nesta_open_innovation_creative.php
Synthetic Biology: Feasibility of the Open Source Movement
,----[ Quote ]
| Synthetic biology is developing into one of the most exciting fields in
| science and technology and is receiving increased attention from venture
| capitalists, government and university laboratories, major corporations, and
| startup companies. This emerging technology promises not only to enable
| cheap, lifesaving new drugs, but also to yield innovative biofuels that can
| help address the world's energy problems.
`----
http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33265
"Transparency will Damage Democracy"
,----[ Quote ]
| Great to see Heather Brooke getting at least *some* recognition for the huge
| service she has done transparency in this country by fighting for access to
| details of MPs' expenses, thanks to her fascinating piece in the Guardian
| today, which lets her tell the real story behind recent events. Do read it if
| you can: it's an extraordinary tale of dogged refusal to give up in the face
| of unremitting parliamentary arrogance.
`----
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/transparency-will-damage-democracy.html
Recent:
John Conyers and Open Access
,----[ Quote ]
| The "open access movement" was born to create an alternative to this. Even if
| restrictive copyright was a necessary evil in the days of dead-tree-based
| publishing, it was still an evil. High costs restrict access. The business
| model of the scientist is to spread his or her knowledge as widely as
| possible. Open access journals, such as, for example, those created by the
| Public Library of Science, have adopted a different publishing model, to
| guarantee that all all research is freely accessible online (under the freest
| Creative Commons license) immediately, to anyone around the world. This
| guarantee of access, however, is not purchased by any compromise in academic
| standards. There is still a peer-review process. There is still even a
| paper-based publication.
`----
http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/03/john_conyers_and_open_access.html
Manifesto
,----[ Quote ]
| We already have a substantial free legal web, but it is not joined up. We
| have the resources and the technologies to join it up — now — for the benefit
| of lawyers and the community at large. Those of us who have an interest in
| access to the law and justice and the efficient provision of legal services
| have a duty to make this happen.
|
| There has in the past 18 months been a sea change in Government’s attitude to
| the provision of Public Sector Information (PSI) and the encouragement of
| user-generated services supporting government. In particular, the independent
| Power of Information Review recommended changes that have been substantially
| accepted by Government, who, through the Power of Information Task Force are
| now committed to making this happen.
|
| The time has come to build the Free Legal Web.
`----
http://legalweb.wordpress.com/manifesto/
Related:
Information Liberation
,----[ Quote ]
| Other than in the realm of life-saving medicine, why should any of this
| matter to nonacademics? Well, for one thing, barriers to the spread of
| information are bad for capitalism. The dissemination of knowledge is almost
| as crucial as the production of it for the creation of wealth, and knowledge
| (like people) can't reproduce in isolation. It's easy to scoff at the rise of
| Madonna studies and other risible academic excrescences, but a flood of truly
| important research pours from campuses every day. The infrastructure that
| produces this work is surely one of America's greatest competitive
| advantages.
|
| In fact, open access might help to moderate some of the worst forms of
| academic hokum, if only by holding them up to the light of day -- and perhaps
| by making taxpayers, parents and college donors more careful about where they
| send their money. Entering the realm of delirium for a moment, one can even
| imagine public exposure encouraging professors in the humanities and social
| sciences to write in plain English.
|
| Keeping knowledge bottled up is also bad for the world's poor; indeed,
| opening up the research produced on America's campuses via the Internet is
| probably among the most cost-effective ways of helping underdeveloped
| countries rise from poverty. Closer to home, open access to scholarly work
| via the Internet would help counteract the plague of plagiarism that the
| Internet itself has abetted. Anyone suspecting a scholar of such chicanery
| could search for a phrase or two in Google and see if somebody else's work
| turns up with the same unusual text string.
`----
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120486540450119149.html
1.8 million rulings online -- and free
,----[ Quote ]
| Sebastopol man posts half-century's worth of court decisions which could
| shake up $5 billion legal publishing industry
`----
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080213/NEWS/802130315/1036/BUSINESS01
Berkman Center and CALI Partner to Create New Legal Education Resource
,----[ Quote ]
| “We are looking forward to renewing a fruitful relationship with Harvard Law
| School through the Legal Education Commons project, which will provide
| innovative tools and access to open-licensed course materials to our more
| than 200 member law schools” said CALI Executive Director John Mayer.
`----
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/newsroom/pressreleases/berkman_center_and_cali_partner_to_create_new_legal_education_resource
Harvard Research to Be Free Online
,----[ Quote ]
| Harvard University will soon begin posting research and articles produced by
| its faculty on the Internet free of charge.
`----
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14arts-HARVARDRESEA_BRF.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
A Quest to Get More Court Rulings Online, and Free
,----[ Quote ]
| The domination of two legal research services over the publication of federal
| and state court decisions is being challenged by an Internet gadfly who has
| embarked on an ambitious project to make more than 10 million pages of case
| law available free online.
`----
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/technology/20westlaw.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Announcing the Open Library
,----[ Quote ]
| Early this year, when I left my job at Wired Digital, I thought I could look
| forward to months of lounging around San Francisco, reading books on the
| beach and drinking fine champagne and eating foie gras. Then I got a phone
| call. Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive was thinking of pursuing a
| project that I'd been trying to do literally for years.
|
| [...]
|
| So today I'm extraordinarily proud to announce the Open Library project. Our
| goal is to build the world's greatest library,
`----
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/openlibrary
Wikipedia Founder Joins EC Open Access Campaign
,----[ Quote ]
| Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he signed a petition calling
| on the European Commission to give the public open access to
| taxpayer-funded scientific research because it was "simple and
| obvious" that the public should have access to research they
| had funded. "Public money should result in public benefit,"
| he added.
`----
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/56443.html
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkoQgvsACgkQU4xAY3RXLo5AQgCfSkU9pgD5AcbRFPB/YdBlXrxV
XOsAni6KF6G34ySnFswGEGXr1vU6X6Sj
=TtV+
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
