Open Knowledge Foundation blog shared highlights of the workshop on Open Scientific Resources held at the London Knowledge Lab on Novemebr 8, 2008. Snippets:
The day started with a discussion of various aspects of openness in educational and research materials – alluding to open access, open data and the Open Knowledge Definition. This was followed by brainstorming about existing open resources and tools for discovery.
…discussion turned to guidelines for making knowledge open, and to advocacy for open science. We came up with a ‘recipe’ for opening up content and data – and talked about a possible ‘unlocking service’ to request material be made open, or at least for licensing status to be clarified.
People were also interested in creating very brief ‘information packs’ for different domains (chemistry, bioinformatics, climate research…) about the benefits of openness.
All in all it was an interesting workshop – and we have come away with some good ideas about how we can continue to support and promote openness in science. Watch this space!
For further notes/documentation, see: /wiki/OpenScience/Workshop
