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Tricky Sea Ice Predictions Call for Scientists to Open Their Data
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| With sea ice levels in the Arctic at record
| lows this month, a new report comparing
| scientistsâ predictions calls for caution in
| over-interpreting a few weeks worth of data
| from the North Pole.
|
| The Sea Ice Outlook, which will be released
| this week, brings together more than a dozen
| teamsâ best guesses at how much sea ice will
| disappear by the end of the warm season in
| September. This year began with a surprise.
| More sea ice appeared than anticipated,
| nearing its mean level from 1979-2007. But
| then ice levels plummeted through May and
| into June. Scientists have never seen the
| Arctic with less ice at this time of year in
| the three decades theyâve been able to
| measure it, and they expect below average
| ice for the rest of the year.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/seaice_models/
The UKâs public data tsunami gathers speed
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| When the British Government said at the
| beginning of May that they would be
| releasing a âtsunami of public dataâ you had
| to wonder whether reality would match up to
| the rhetoric. Oh ye of little faith... A
| fortnight ago, the Government released
| hundreds of new datasets - including a full
| list of Government expenditure - and this
| week, Transport for London announced that
| they too would be releasing lots of their
| transport data for free to the public.
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http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2010/06/uks-public-data-tsunami-gathers-speed.html
Victory on FDA Data
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| Back in February, we were encouraging
| participation in the Open Government
| Directive conversations happening at federal
| agencies, since they were busy creating
| their open government plans, and in a
| uniquely responsive position.
|
| Sunlightâs Nancy Watzman, submitted a
| request for the Department of Health and
| Human Services, calling on them to release a
| database on drugs, medical devices, and food
| recalls by manufacturers. Nancy has been
| writing extensively on HHS and FDA data
| issues, including our award-winning
| investigation, Heart of the Matter.
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http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2010/06/17/victory-on-fda-data/
Consuming the Transport for London Data
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| The following guest post is from Julian
| Todd, who works on projects such as Public
| Whip, UNdemocracy, and ScraperWiki. He is
| also a member of the Open Knowledge
| Foundationâs Working Group on Open
| Government Data.. The post was originally
| published on Julianâs blog, Freesteel.
|
| Yesterday Transport for London made a data
| dump of various locations and links to their
| traffic cameras, station locations, and so
| on.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2010/06/17/consuming-the-transport-for-london-data/
Recent:
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/
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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