email : Webview : News from ARL-AAU-APLU's SHARE initiative to maximize research impact

"SHARE presented an update on our progress at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall 2014 Membership Meeting in Washington, DC. Tyler Walters (dean of university libraries at Virginia Tech and SHARE director), Eric Celeste (SHARE technical director), and Jeff Spies (co-founder of the Center for Open Science), described SHARE’s 2014 progress and in particular the work that has been done on the Notification Service prototype. Our project briefing was to a full room and the presentation slides are available on the CNI website. One aspect of SHARE that prompted discussion at this briefing was the open nature of SHARE data. We described some of the challenges to acquiring data that we could freely share with others, which prompted some concern that our data would be available for commercial exploitation. We reiterated that our intention is that SHARE data be open to all, whether their interest is academic or commercial ..."