OpenScience/Workshop/Notes

= Workshop on Finding and Re-using open scientific resources =

Participants

 * Jonathan Gray, The Open Knowledge Foundation
 * Peter Murray-Rust, Cambridge University
 * Sabine McNeill, 3D Metrics and Forum for Stable Currencies
 * Non Scantlebury, The Open University (Head of Library Research and Innovation)
 * Jessie Hey, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
 * Rufus Pollock, The Open Knowledge Foundation
 * Terence Freedman, The National Archives
 * Hilary Smith, The University of Sussex
 * Frank Norman, MRC National Institute for Medical Research [Head of Library]
 * Rhian Cunliffe, BioMed Central
 * Vincent Rouilly, Open Wetware
 * Cameron Neylon, Open Wetware + STFC
 * Tim Hubbard, Sanger Institute
 * Giota Alevizou, LSE

Agenda

 * Introductions/opening discussion
 * Discussion of openness
 * Licensing clarity
 * Funders - what policies
 * How do we do data sharing (cost, the recipe, the standards)
 * Registries
 * Lunch
 * Examples: successes and failures
 * Finding open educational and scientific resources
 * labelling open/closed resources
 * Sciences, social sciences, arts, humanities etc
 * Finding and accessing: registries (again), (shiny) front-ends, software etc
 * By MACHINES ...
 * mapping the discovery landscape?
 * Research funding/training
 * Education (about openness) among students/researchers

Planned Actions
Focus on 3 main things:


 * 1) Providing a simple recipe for making things open
 * 2) Advocacy: benefits of openness, education, changing funder mandates
 * 3) ckan.net -- editors/curators, expanding coverage

1. Simple Recipe

 * 1) Unlocking/clarification service: a simple way for people to ask for data to be made open (or have its status clarified)
 * 2) * Simple template email. Some already done at opendefinition.org resources
 * 3) * Could turn this into a service by having the email generated and response recorded
 * 4) 'How to make my data open': Basic 1-2-3 webpage
 * 5) Choose license (do I have the rights?)
 * 6) Apply license (insert url, say how you want to be cited)
 * 7) Make data available somewhere (archive.org)
 * 8) [Optional]: register it (e.g. CKAN)

2. Advocacy

 * 1) Prepare 1-page summaries of benefits of openness (altruistic and 'selfish'). Some of this can be standard but a good portion needs to be specific to the subject area
 * 2) * more citations/usage
 * 3) * eligible for openness award
 * 4) * giving also means receiving
 * 5) * very easy to do
 * 6) * satisfy funder requirements simply and easily
 * 7) Include openness as part of best-practice (see recipes above)
 * 8) Talk to funders about mandating/considering data openness as part of their policies

3. ckan.net
Already have a good number of data 'packages' in CKAN in scientific areas: ckan.net/tag/read/science. However would be useful to supplement current efforts with more permanent editorship/curatorship:


 * 1) Appoint named curators/editors in particular areas (chemistry,astronomy, bioinformatics etc)
 * 2) Provide clear guidance as to what packaging could involve
 * 3) * tagging
 * 4) * clarifying open/closed status
 * 5) ** Connect this with unlocking service
 * 6) ** ensuring download url
 * 7) uploading data to a reliable repository
 * 8) * checking data etc