Here are the key points from the WG meeting on Jan 12, followed by a list of tasks to which you could you could contribute and upcoming events. If you’d like more detailed updates on projects or to view the full minutes, visit the working group EtherPad.

Updates

Panton Principles:

– Panton Papers are still in progress, a first draft deadline of 15th Feb has been set for those with authors assigned. To join the collaborative discussion and drafting effort, have a look at the current papers and ideas and contribute your thoughts.

– Once the papers are nearing completion there may need to be some thematic linking between the various topics, and a list of Panton Papers relevant references may be compiled to add to open bibliographies.

– A page on the Panton Principles website detailing case studies and best practice in open scientific data was suggested. This will be discussed again at the next working group meeting, so please add any ideas you have in the mean time to the January meeting pad.

Public Health Research Data:

– A major joint statement from public health research funders regarding sharing research data was published this week.

If you have any feedback on priorities for implementing the statement, or you’d like to get involved, see this link for contact details:

Online Tools:

– A new tool was released this week by Science 3.0. FigShare – alpha http://figshare.com/ allows users to share data by uploading figures which would otherwise by unpublished, under a CC-BY license. For more information see here
– CKAN has many science data packages, but to maximise usefulness it would be great to have somebody maintaining particular groups of packages e.g. the chemistry group.

Things To Do!

1. Collaborate in drafting Panton Papers.
2. Volunteer to maintain some of the science packages at CKAN eg. http://ckan.net/group/chemistry, this would be a small but very worthwhile time commitment to ensure CKAN is as useful and up to date as possible.
3. The annual OKF conference OKCon will be taking place again next year and we are looking for suggestions of speakers to invite for a science themed stream – check the pad for current suggestions and add your own.
4. Make some Is It Open? requests! For more information see Heather’s blog posts at http://science.okfn.org/ and visit http://www.isitopendata.org/ to make your request.
5. Upload figures to http://figshare.com/, and encourage your colleagues to do the same!

OKF/Open Science Related Events:

30 Jun/1 Jul – OKCon at Kalkscheune, Berlin. More details to follow in due course.