[sc-announce] Are you part of open science? -- Science Commons blog

Donna Wentworth dwentworth at creativecommons.org
Wed Apr 16 12:44:25 EDT 2008


Are you part of open science?

April 16th, 2008<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/04/16/are-you-part-of-open-science/>by
dwentworth

A few weeks ago, I asked
you<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/04/02/voices-from-the-future-of-science/>for
your ideas for people and organizations to profile here at Science
Commons, with the goal of highlighting efforts to open new frontiers for
innovation and discovery in science. I got some great responses, including a
marvelously detailed, thoughtful email from Valentin
Zacharias<http://www.vzach.de/blog>,
a doctoral student and researcher at
FZI<http://www.fzi.de/ipe/eng/mitarbeiter.php?id=85>who identified
groups in five broad areas of open
science <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science>:

   - broad efforts to *bring more scientific knowledge online*, such as E.O.
   Wilson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Osborne_Wilson>'s Encyclopedia
   of Life <http://www.eol.org/> project
   - initiatives to *define open access*
(OA<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/overview.htm>)
   and develop resource sites, such as the Directory of OA Journals
(DOAJ<http://www.doaj.org/>)
   and the Registry of OA Repositories (ROAR <http://roar.eprints.org/>)
   - efforts to *share pre-publication research* — science as it happens
   — including everything from
preprint<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preprint>servers to open
   notebook<http://drexel-coas-elearning.blogspot.com/2006/09/open-notebook-science.html>projects
   - initiatives to *create evaluation mechanisms* and
*bibliometrics<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliometrics>
   *
   - efforts to *integrate* and make scientific content *understandable
   by computers*, such as the Semantic
Web<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web>approaches we use at
Science Commons

This is, of course, only the tip of the proverbial iceberg — or to use a
more apropos metaphor, the
stack<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_%28data_structure%29>.
There is an incredibly diverse range of projects that use "open" approaches
to building knowledge and accelerating discovery. In the profiles I'll be
publishing here, a connecting thread will be the question of whether and how
we can enable independent contributions to feed into one another. Or to put
it another way, how do we build an integrated commons of research and tools
that's truly useful for scientists?

I hope you'll stay tuned. And if you're part of an open science project and
you haven't yet sent me a pointer, please do<dwentworth at creativecommons.org>.
I'd love to hear from you.

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Donna Wentworth
Communications Specialist
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
dwentworth at creativecommons.org <kaitlin at creativecommons.org>
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