Working Group on Open Data in Science

Purpose

  1. Act as a central point of reference and support for people who think they are interested in open data in science.
  2. Identify practices of early adopters, collecting data and developing guides.
  3. Act as a hub for the development of low cost, community driven projects around open data in science.

Project Members

  • Dharma Akmon, University of Michigan, USA
  • Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel University, USA
  • Tania Bubela, University of Alberta, Canada
  • James Casbon, Population Genetics Technologies, UK
  • Simon Coles, School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, UK
  • Jessy Cowan-Sharp, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
  • Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, IViR, Netherlands
  • Kathleen Fear, University of Michigan
  • Meredith Golden, Columbia University
  • Lisa Green, Science Commons
  • Bill Hooker, Calypte Biomedical, USA
  • Tim Hubbard, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
  • Walter J. Jessen, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, USA
  • Puneet Kishor, Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • Thomas Kluyver, University of Sheffield, UK
  • Ignasi Labastida i Juan, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
  • Liz Lyon, UKOLN, UK
  • Michele Mattioni, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
  • Jenny Molloy, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Tom Moritz, UNEP-WCMC in Cambridge, UK
  • Peter Murray-Rust, Cambridge University, UK
  • Cameron Neylon, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
  • Finn Årup Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  • Michael Nielsen, Independent Scholar
  • Yaroslav Nikolaev, University of Basel, Switzerland
  • Heather Piwowar, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • Rufus Pollock, Cambridge University, UK
  • Pawel Szczęsny, Warsaw University, Poland
  • Kraig Stevenson, The University of Michigan, USA

  • Darin L. Stewart, Oregon Health & Science University

  • Victoria Stodden, Stanford University, USA
  • Alma Swan, Key Perspectives, UK
  • John Wilbanks, Science Commons, USA
  • Egon Willighagen, Uppsala University, Sweden

Status: Active

Participate

Created: 2008-11-18

Projects

Open Data in Science prize

Is It Open Data? - web service

  • http://isitopendata.org/ (wiki page)

    • Service to make it easy for people to make requests to data holders (esp. publishers) to enquire about the openness of their data and to record publicly the results of those efforts.

Brief summaries of benefits of openness in different domains

  • One page summaries of benefits of openness. Some of this can be standard but a good portion needs to be specific to the subject area.

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