Paul A. Thiessen wrote: > Well, with the recent rash of introductions, I guess I should add > myself. I've been lurking on this list for a little while, and though > there hasn't been a whole lot of activity lately, I've been paying some > attention and seeing what I can learn.
Activity flares at random times. There is now a lot of general interest in Open Data (see the Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org) and its mailing lists). Several of the BO-OD resources have been aggregated under the OKF's CKAN. Note that Open meeans really Open, not just free. A good test is whether it can be included in a commercial textbook without asking permission. To that extent it should be marked (e.g. with OKF's OpenData tag) so the position is clear. <snipped/> IMO Pubchem/NCBI has made more contributions to ODOSOS than any other formal organization. It does have policy constraints, some being set by political considerations. (For example I am on UKPubMedCentral - off to an advisory board today - and although it is "Open Access" there are very large cnstarints on what can be done - set in the context of the Bush administration). So I don't ask too closely about whether Pubchem data can be bulk downloaded - there is a community norm that it's "OK to do anything reasonable with it". P. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
