Report from the Publishing Open Data Working Group meeting, 17th June 2011

"On 17th June BioMed Central held a Publishing Open Data Working Group meeting, proposed in the spring, in London, UK. This post is a summary report from the meeting, including the next steps for the stakeholders involved....Goal 1: Establish a process and policy for implementing a variable publishers’/authors’ license agreement, allowing public domain dedication of data and data elements of scientific articles....Goal 2: Consensus on the role of peer reviewers in articles including supplementary (additional) data files....Goal 3: Sharing of information and best practices on implementation of journal data sharing/deposition policies...."