The question I asked The Inventor of the Web « David F. Flanders

I owe a massive thanks to Dr. Steven Manos (who in managing TBL coming to Melbourne University) gave me the honor of asking the final question at TBL’s public lecture.  I began the question by asking all the researchers in the audience to raise their hand, naturally well over half the audience did so.  I then asked Sir Tim: “To the researchers who have just raised their hands what would be your advice to them be for sharing their research data?” As Sir Tim’s lecture had primarily been on the ‘New Momentum for Open’, and as TBL invented the Web while at a research organisation (CERN), I felt we might get some nice insight.  The only trouble with Sir Tim’s insight is that he has obviously thought about this at a level that most of will not yet have encountered.  Accordingly, I want to take TBL’s answer and break it down (paraphrasing) it for any researcher who won’t have found his technical-literal answer easy to understand ..."