Launch of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science and ‘Is It Open Data?’ Web Service – Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-12-15
Summary:
"The principles themselves state that legal status of scientific datasets should be made explicit and that content licenses are not appropriate for data. They strongly discourage non-commercial licenses and strongly encourage dedication to the public domain. You can endorse the principles at:
We’d greatly appreciate any help in disseminating the principles – including blogging, microblogging and forwarding to relevant people!
The first draft of Panton Principles was written in July 2009 by Peter Murray-Rust, Cameron Neylon, Rufus Pollock and John Wilbanks at the Panton Arms on Panton Street in Cambridge, UK, just down from the Chemistry Faculty where Peter works. They were then refined with the help of the members of the Open Knowledge Foundation Working Group on Open Data in Science.
The Is It Open Data? web service is also now live. This allows anyone to make and publicly record an enquiry into the openness of a given (scientific) dataset. It is also an initiative of the Working Group on Open Data in Science. ..."