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Open Data: Climate Change research and Chemoinformatics
http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2466
Open Data is necessary but not sufficient
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| John Wilbanks is Director of Science
| Commons and a co-author of the Panton
| Principles. He has responded to my
| concerns about access to climate change
| data, with the observation that Open data
| is not the major problem or solution. Iâll
| comment at the bottom. I agree with what
| he says, but I will argue why there is a
| role for Open Knowledge in this issue.
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http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2456
Exoplanet Hunterâs First Data Withholds the Good Stuff
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| Without all the data in hand, itâs hard to
| answer the question that Kepler was built
| to answer: How common are planets like
| Earth? Though we now know hundreds of
| exoplanets, most of them are big, hot
| Jupiters around very bright stars that
| could not sustain any kind of life that we
| recognize. Itâs easy to detect the bigger
| planets that orbit close to their stars
| because their gravity makes the star
| âwobbleâ more noticeably and their size
| dims its light more. So, the data weâve
| collected on extrasolar planets over the
| last two decades is muddied by observation
| bias.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/first-kepler-data/
Recent:
Open Data in Climate Research?
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| As a result of the presentations and the
| discussions within the panel it seemed to me
| that there was a serious lack of Openness in
| the Climate Research community. It is
| important not to judge from just one meeting
| but given the enormous public reporting and
| discussion I was disappointed to find that
| there were still parochial and entrenched
| attitudes about ownership and use of data.
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http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2449
Boost for London's Software Developer Community and SME's as TfL lifts all restrictions on commercial reuse of its data
http://data.london.gov.uk/blog/boost-londons-software-developer-community-and-smes-tfl-lifts-all-restrictions-commercial-reuse
Right to Government Dataâ unless itâs been outsourced
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| The UKâs coalition government has followed up
| on its promises of a general Right To Public
| Data, with sweeping and fast-moving measures
| to open up whole sectors of public sector
| information, from the salaries of senior civil
| servants to spending by local councils.
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http://countculture.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/right-to-data-unless-its-been-outsourced/
Launch of it.ckan.net for open data in Italy!
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| The following guest post is by Stefano Costa
| and Federico Morando. Stefano Costa is a
| researcher at the University of Siena and
| Coordinator of the OKFâs Working Group on Open
| Data in Archaeology. Federico Morando is
| Managing Director & Research Fellow at the
| NEXA Center for Internet & Society and a
| member of the Working Group on EU Open Data.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2010/06/14/launch-of-itckannet-for-open-data-in-italy/
Peer review provides Â209,976,000 public subsidy to commercial publishers
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| The Open University's Martin Weller looks at
| the Peer Review Survey 2009's numbers on free
| participation by UK academics in the peer
| review process for commercial science journals
| and concludes that 10.4m hours spent on this
| amounts to a Â209,976,000 subsidy from
| publicly funded universities to private, for-
| profit journals, who then charge small
| fortunes to the same institutions for access
| to the journals.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/13/peer-review-provides.html
OCWSearch Launches API, Indexes OpenCourseWare from Ten Major Universities
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| OCWSearch, the search engine for
| OpenCourseWare classes, reached a milestone
| today, now indexing the OpenCourseWare content
| from ten major universities: the School of
| Public Health at Johns Hopkins, MIT, Notre
| Dame, The Open University UK, Universidad
| PolitÃcnica de Madrid, Stanford Engineering
| Everywhere, Delft University of Technology,
| University of Massachusets Boston, the
| University of Tokyo, and Yale University.
| These universities all offer courses online
| for free, under the OpenCourseWare Initiative.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ocwsearch_launches_api_indexes_opencourseware_from.php
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