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open data policy for scientists as citizens and for citizen science

Mike Linksvayer (@mlinksva)

Open Data Workshop

Center for GIS, RCHSS, Academia Sinica

2012-11-01i

http://identi.ca/mlinksvahttp://gis.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?view=article&id=755https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:China_1689-1722_Frontier_-_Taiwan.jpg

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meta

http://openhatch.org/http://acawiki.org/

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in part

Post- thoughts

http://codata2012.com/

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“citizen science” contributions to scientific processes outside of instutional context and/or by non-scientists?

“scientists as citizens” scientists [including citizen scientists?] cognizant of the role of their work for society?

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high priests used to be looked upon for “truth” … but they controlled it tightly

scientists are looked upon to work towards truth … and their work is always shared freely and open to scrutiny

at least we have the right ideal now ☺

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“open data”

anyone, any purpose

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http://opendefinition.org/okd

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easy to get hung up on vulgar policy, eg licensing

think broadly about what, where, ends

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what is a mass collaboration data project? x: latent / explicit y: distributed / centralized z: crowdsourced / collaborative …: ...

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consider location of “science” “semantic web” freebase musicbrainz openstreetmap wikidata dbpedia zooniverse ...

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what is a mass collaboration data policy?

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restrictions & permissions

try to be Open; use terms other projects do; if you have to think, public domain for max donor, copyleft [look again at nearby projects] for max recipient, but also possibly be bold, assume facts are free...

http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/getting_data_7.html

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“IP” never the ideal answer

poor substitute for other regulation...

http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2012/04/30/future-of-copyright/

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...privacy, security, integrity

public licenses dull instruments for these legitimate objectives

when so used overly restrictive, incompatible

http://blog.okfn.org/2012/10/04/making-a-real-commons-creative-commons-should-drop-the-non-commercial-and-no-derivatives-licenses/

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...transparency, replicability, modifiability

copyleft!part copyright etc neutralization, part regulatorywholesome goalsbeware FUD, incompatibility

http://www.wealthofthecommons.org/essay/creative-commons-governing-intellectual-commons-below

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explicit+centralized+collaborative= evinces need for public licenses like nothing else

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governanceof what?depends on location in each dimension

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software to facilitate mass collaboration, egwikis~source controlsemantic stuff

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data management

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consider key ~policy choices (so far) made by a couple of aforementioned projects

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at what level should “policy” be considered (depends...)internationaljurisdicitoninstitutionalstandardsprojectindividual contributor

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some things to desire (~ends) from mass collaboration projects (thus to consider in “policy”)curationprovenancedata improvement, normalization...innovation/disruption/not imagined usesorientation toward public good...

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at least 3 methods of promoting and protecting commons

law&policybuildingextralegal

each has reactionary and progressive aspects

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building

free knowledge & software invalidates assumptions of, mitigates, and builds constituency against bad policy

each contribution to a commons is a strike against bad policy and dystopian future; that’s something to celebrate and proclaim!

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imagine a world in which Wikipedia is not unusual:where mass collaboration obtains...disruptive innovationsuperior “product”greater equalitygreater freedom...in all of the most crucial human enterprises

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links: convey yourself to

gondwanaland.com/mlog

@mlinksva

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