The Open Knowledge Foundation
has made an announcement concerning the launch of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science. The Foundation states that open data should be data that are “freely available on the public internet permitting any user to download, copy, analyse, re-process, pass them to software or use them for any other purpose without financial, legal, or technical barriers…” and that accordingly data relating to published science should be available in the public domain. The Principles themselves hold that the legal status of scientific datasets should be explicit and that content licences are not appropriate for data. The first draft of the Panton Principles was written in July 2009 by Peter Murray-Rust, Cameron Neylon, Rufus Pollock and John Wilbanks and were refined with the assistance of the members of the Open Knowledge Foundation Working Group on Open Data in Science.
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The Panton Principles for Open Data in Science
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010RDMF: Opening Bio-Health Data and Models Securely and Effectively
Monday, February 8th, 2010The Welcome and Introduction to the fourth meeting of the Research Data Management Forum (RDMF) to be held over 10 – 11 March 2010 at the University of Manchester will be provided by Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, DCC, and Stéphane Goldstein, Head of Programmes, RIN. They will welcome the opening keynote speaker Professor Iain Buchan, Professor of Public Health Informatics and Director of the Northwest Institute for Bio-Health Informatics (NIBHI), University of Manchester. Professor Buchan’s keynote address is entitled Opening Bio-Health Data and Models Securely and Effectively for Public Benefit. Further information is available.
6th International Digital Curation Conference: 6 – 8 December 2010
Thursday, January 21st, 2010The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has announced the dates for the 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC10) as Monday 6 – Wednesday 8 December 2010. The theme of the Conference this year will be Participation & Practice: growing the Curation Community through the data decade. Our venue will be Chicago, USA, where the Conference is being presented jointly with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The Call for Papers will be released in March and registration will open in September 2010.
International Journal of Digital Curation, Issue 3, Volume 4
Monday, December 7th, 2009UKOLN has just published – on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre – Issue 3, Volume 4 of the International Journal of Digital Curation. This issue features nine peer-reviewed papers and three general articles.
Open Science – the future for research?
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre, has written a new report on Open Science as part of JISC’s ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’ activity which launches at the end of November. The consultative report, entitled Open Science at Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential identifies open-ness, predictive science based on massive data volumes, and citizen involvement as being important features of tomorrow’s research practice.
Open Science at Web Scale Closes eResearch Australia 2009
Friday, November 6th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, has been invited to give the locknote address at the close of the eResearch Australia 2009 Conference to be held in Sydney over 9 – 13 November. Her locknote presentation entitled Open Science at Web Scale: breaking all boundaries? will seek to challenge our established notions of the research landscape by extending the boundaries to explore the full potential of 21st Century team science.
IDCC 09 – Programme of Workshops
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) will be hosting a workshop programme on 2 December, followed by a Pre-Conference Drinks Reception at the Natural History Museum. Places are limited so please register now. Registration to close on 20 November 2009.
DCC Research Data Management Forum
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Research Information Network (RIN) are pleased to announce the fourth meeting of the Research Data Management Forum. This event will take the theme “Dealing with Sensitive Data: managing ethics, security and trust”, and will be held on Monday 30 November and Tuesday 1 December at the Guoman Hotel, Charing Cross, London.
Registration is now open.
Digital Curation Approaches for Architecture
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009The DCC SCARP Case Study Digital Curation approaches for Architecture is now published. This sixth DCC SCARP Case Study highlights choices in how to provide for appropriate care of digital objects and options for digital curation treatment. These approaches will serve to promote more effective architectural practice and research, both now and in the future.
DCC SCARP Workshop
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009The programme and speakers for the Digital Curation Workshop on “Disciplinary Dimensions of Digital Curation: New Perspectives on Research Data” are now published. This DCC SCARP project workshop takes place on 2 December in London as a Pre-Conference workshop of the 5th International Digital Curation Conference.