The Open Knowledge Foundation, along with several other representatives from the research sector, has withdrawn from the Licences for Europe dialogue on text and data mining due to concerns about the scope, composition and transparency of the process. A letter of withdrawal has been sent to the Commissioners involved in Licenses for Europe explaining the [...]
Open Access to research publications often takes the limelight in national debates about access to research – but at the Open Knowledge Foundation we know there are also other pressing issues; like the need for Open Data. So we submitted a short written statement to the ongoing US Public Comment Meeting concerning Public Access to Federally Supported [...]
Posted on behalf of Sophie Kershaw, one of our Panton Fellows 2012/13, recapping her work training the next generation in the art of open science. Over to you Sophie: Some of you may have been following the progress of my Panton Fellowship work over the past year, the main focus of which was establishing a [...]
Come and join other citizen scientists, humanities folks, technologists, designers, students, scientists, and all who are curious for a two days of Crowdcrafting Citizen Science at Medialab-Prado, Madrid, Spain. We’ll be hacking together apps and projects with various open tools such as Epicollect, PyBossa and/or BOINC. Registration required. The goal of the hackfest is [...]
Capitalizing on the success of our recent CrowdCrafting hack day, from this Thursday and onwards every week we’ll be having a public Google+ Hangout to discuss citizen science and related topics. Details of the first meeting are below: Thursday 4th April, 5pm (BST) – Weekly Citizen Science Hangout on Google+ here In the first meeting [...]
This is a guest post by Antti Poikola of Open Science Finland Open Science Finland working group was kickstarted at the OKF Finland Convention in Tuusula 8-9.2.2013. The intense Round Table session attracted 15 open science enthusiasts despite being the last session of the evening and competing against the parallel sauna session! The working group [...]
Yesterday was our Science Hack Day London event. I think it’s safe to say it was a roaring success and we’ll likely be having more this year. We had Daniel Lombraña González jet in from Spain to help us with PyBossa / Crowdcrafting projects and got a working demo of a sound classification app using SoundCloud by [...]
Last Friday was meeting number two of the Licences for Europe – a Stakeholder Dialogue, ‘Text & Data Mining’ Working Group 4. The first meeting did not go well and this was widely reported. The potential of text & data mining (TDM) technology is enormous. The McKinsey Global Institute reckon that in Europe, government expenditure [...]
ANNOUNCEMENT: We have released a demo version of a new application on OKF’s new citizen science / microtasking platform Crowdcrafting.org. It’s called “Is It an Open Access Journal?” and looks something like this: It uses PyBossa and Disqus for comments. The code for it is available on github here too (Open Source!) The aim of [...]
A significant number of groups who support knowledge policies for the public good, including ourselves, have signed and published a letter of concern arising from one of the working groups of the Licences for Europe – A Stakeholder Dialogue meetings in Brussels. This particular working group was Working Group 4, which was set to discuss ways [...]
On Friday 22nd February, 2013 the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a statement to say that the “Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of scientific research their tax dollars have paid for”. This was accompanied by a new policy memorandum and a long-awaited response by OSTP [...]
A blog entry by Billy Meinke cross-posted from the Creative Commons blog. An Education Sprint The future of Open is a dynamic landscape, ripe with opportunities to increase civic engagement, literacy, and innovation. Towards this goal, the Science Program at Creative Commons is teaming up with the Open Knowledge Foundation and members of the Open [...]
The UK Business Innovation and Skills Committee have asked for written evidence about the UK’s new Open Access strategy. We here at the Open Knowledge Foundation support this strategy and so have submitted some evidence to the inquiry. The submission we sent just before 5pm on Thursday 7th February is here below: Response to the [...]
Hot on the heels of the recent House of Lords inquiry, there is also a separate Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee inquiry into the new Research Councils UK open access mandate focusing on economic aspects. There were only 70 or so written evidence submissions to the House of Lords inquiry and few were from active researchers. Other [...]
It’s our pleasure to invite you to join the Citizen Science Open Technical Workshop to be held Wednesday 30th January 16:00 CET virtually using Google Hangout. You can attend the meeting and send all your comments in this Youtube channel or this twitter account. Over 2 hours, we’ll have expert talks and open discussions about [...]
The following is a statement by the Global Young Academy. The Open Science movement – giving free Internet access to scientific results and data – is a revolutionary development in the way science is made public. It has profound implications for the way in which libraries, data centres, researchers, universities, publishers, and funding bodies operate [...]
PRESS RELEASE Berlin, 22 November 2012 The Global Young Academy today issued a position statement that identifies obstacles that currently stand in the way of giving free access to scientific results and data, and advocates ways forward that will transform scientific research into a truly global endeavour. The GYA calls for scientific results to be made freely [...]
The BMJ Open Data Campaign has been attracting a lot of attention. Here Dr Tom Jefferson, one of the people whose attempts to provide reliable information on the anti-flu drug Tamiflu kicked the campaign off, tells the story of how we got here. We started working on a Cochrane review of neuraminidase inhibitors in 1998. [...]
The following is a guest post by Dr. Sabina Leonelli from the University of Exeter. Open Data and Privacy Concerns in Biomedical Research Privacy has long been the focus of debates about how to use and disseminate data taken from human subjects during clinical research. The increasing push to share data freely and openly within [...]
The following guest post is by Jeremy Wang, from the University of North Carolina Well-informed public debate around science seems nowhere more necessary – and hard to come by – than in the field of climate science. Finding clear and transparent ways to communicate climate data is thus an imperative aspect of the climate scientist’s [...]
The following post is by Ross Mounce, one of the two OKFN Panton Fellows. Wow! Where to begin… In this post I shall attempt to summarise some of OKFestival 2012 that was held in Helsinki just last week from the 17th to the 22nd of September. Some Background: I had been to the Open [...]
Louhos have generated a tool called Sorvi with the aim of making R based statistical computational tools and methods traditionally used by scientists available for people wrangling all sorts of data sets from government and finance to weather and more. Sorvi combines these resources by providing a centralized collection of general-purpose open-source tools for data [...]
This morning saw the start of the world’s biggest ever open knowledge meeting and following an inspiring opening session 40 odd hackers descended on the OKFest MAKE space to collaborate on building apps and tools to open up scientific and cultural data sets. The open science crowd was about 15 strong and quickly settled on [...]
The third hackday project aims to explore the links between corporations and researchers for the areas of organic food, but more widely research into pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food and other consumer products. By extracting author and funding data from the full text open access literature, funding links become clearer allowing visualisation which can be manipulated into [...]
This blog post is cross-posted from the OpenGlam blog and the OKFN main blog. For details of the open science sessions scheduled for the main OKFest programme, visit the OKFestival website. At the OKFestival in Helsinki next month, the Open Heritage and Open Science streams will be kicking off their three days of activities with [...]
Last Friday (17/08/12), representing the Open Knowledge Foundation, I had the pleasure of discussing the new Research Councils UK (RCUK) plan for all UK publicly-funded research to be published Open Access, on a special half hour Voice of Russia UK broadcast radio discussion. I have written about this policy before and am very supportive of [...]
The excitement is mounting as plans for OKFest move into the final planning stages. As Kat Braybrooke reports, hundreds of OKFest tickets have been snapped up already. The early bird ticket deadline is THIS WEDNESDAY 8th AUGUST, so book your tickets now! Book your OKFest ticket here On the Open Research and Education stream – [...]
It was a day of ‘firsts’ for the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Science working group at their summer hackday on Saturday: the first hackday to be held by the group in the Centre for Creative Collaboration, the first trial run with Google Hangouts, the first introduction to booki.cc – and the first time Panton Fellow [...]
Those of you following #openscience news over the last few weeks won’t have failed to notice that the Royal Society in the UK recently released their Science as a Public Enterprise Report in strong support of open science. The working group submitted our collaboratively drafted response during the consultation period, which you can read below [...]
The next OKFN Open Science hackday will be taking place in a few weeks and it would be great to see plenty of open-science folk either in London or online from wherever you are in the world! When: Saturday 7 July 2012, 1000-1700 UTC+1 Where: Centre for Creative Collaboration, London OR OKFN IRC channel (#okfn [...]
Since the start of the Panton Principles, we have had several different Panton Discussions with different people talking about Open Data in Science. A couple of them have been recorded on video. These recordings have now also been made available as podcasts which allow you to listen to them while travelling, working or just relaxing. [...]
The Open Science Working Group has over 350 mailing list members and many have chosen to be listed as official members here on the website. You can find a complete alphabetical list at the bottom of the Members page. To showcase the work and interests of our diverse group, members of the open-science mailing list [...]
When the Working Group on Open Data in Science was launched back in 2009, our activities were focused very much around open data. Flagship projects included the Panton Principles for open data in science and the web service Is It Open Data?. However, over the last three years our membership has grown (the open-science mailing [...]
Cross-posted from the main OKFN blog. The Panton Fellowships are a new initiative to support scientists who promote open access to data. Funded by Open Society Foundations, the Open Knowledge Foundation are proud to welcome Ross Mounce and Sophie Kershaw as the first ever Panton Fellows. What are the Panton Fellowships? Many scientists believe in [...]
Personal experience and evidence from Professor Peter Murray-Rust. I have been involved in developing and deploying text and other forms of data mining in chemistry and related sciences (e.g. biosciences and material sciences) for ten years. I have developed open source tools for chemistry (OSCAR [1], OPSIN [2], ChemicalTagger [3]), which have been developed with [...]
The Intellectual Property Office of the UK government have been running a public consultation on changes to copyright law recommended in the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth in 2011. The report stated that: Researchers want to use every technological tool available, and they want to develop new ones. However, the law can block [...]
At the last working group meeting it was decided that we should run a hackday on open science, spending the day driving forward coding projects and coming up with new ideas. So, come along and join us in person in the London Barbican foyer or virtually via Skype, IRC and Etherpad! There are several tasks [...]
As part of their ‘The Life Scientific‘ series, which has previously featured an excellent interview with John Sulston on open data and the Human Genome Project, the BBC recently broadcast an interview with Sir Iain Chalmers, founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, in which he clearly states the dire need for open data concerning drug trials [...]
See below for a summary of key points from the WG meeting on 25 Jan 2012, followed by a list of interesting events that are coming up. If you’d like more detailed updates on projects or to view the full minutes, visit the meeting Etherpad. The next meeting will be Wednesday 6 March, 17:30 GMT. [...]
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