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RE: STM Releases Related to EC Conference last week
ALPSP and STM issued last year a more detailed statement on the
free accessibility of data - see
http://www.alpsp.org/ForceDownload.asp?id=129
Neither group wanted to claim any ownership over what you call
'the building blocks'
Sally Morris
Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy)
South House, The Street
Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email: sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk
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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Greg Tananbaum
Sent: 20 February 2007 23:07
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: STM Releases Related to EC Conference last week
An interesting principle laid out in the STM Brussels Declaration
states:
"Raw research data should be made freely available to all
researchers. Publishers encourage the public posting of the raw
data outputs of research. Sets or sub-sets of data that are
submitted with a paper to a journal should wherever possible be
made freely accessible to other scholars."
The questions this brings to mind are how the raw data should be
curated, whether raw data can be effectively
aggregated/crosswalked, and who should put up the resources
necessary to host, maintain, and preserve the raw data.
Imagine the day when a researcher interested in Hurricane Katrina
can readily find a 360 degree research view of the storm. Tide
tables and water level information from the meteorologists.
Hospital admittances and mortality rates from the public health
experts. Financial impact studies from the economists.
Post-traumatic stress incidences from the psychologists. In the
drawing together of these various strands of information, the
potential exists to change the course of scientific research.
It is good to see that STM, ALPSP, and its signatories are not
(presently) claiming dominion over the building blocks of
science.
Best, Greg
Greg Tananbaum
gtananbaum@gmail.com