Working Groups/Science

= Open Science Working Group = The main online home of the working group is our homepage at okfn.org

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.

Participate

 * Mailing List: join the open-science list or email info [at] okfn [dot] org.
 * Check the latest news and updates at the working group homepage
 * Join the OKFN Science BuddyPress group
 * Monthly Meetings via Skype/IRC (announced via the open-science list)
 * IRC: #okfn on irc.freenode.net

Local Groups

 * Austria

Projects
Main list can be found on the working group website

Panton Principles for Open Data in Science
Guidelines for open data in science authored by John Wilbanks, Peter Murry-Rust, Cameron Neylon, Rufus Pllock and members of the working group. Associated projects include the Panton Discussions, interviews with prominent figures in open science and Panton Papers covering various aspects of open data in science in more detail (in draft).

Is It Open Data? - web service
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.

PyBOSSA
PyBossa is a free, open-source, platform for creating and running crowd-sourcing applications that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition, knowledge or intelligence such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more! [In progress]

Data Digitiser
A tool for transcribing documents and tables that are not currently machine-readable. Suggested applications for this tool ranged from the transcription of Brazilian census data to input of tables from economics articles to allow comparisons across multiple articles that examine the same variables. Demo and code are available – please help contribute! [In progress]

Project Members
The membership listing here is deprecated in favour of that at: http://science.okfn.org/members/

More Details
See also:


 * OpenScience