What do you think of websites or organizations that ask you to fill up an elaborate form or write an elaborate research proposal before they share their data with you? Do you think such data is really "open"?
I find monetary paywalls more egalitarian than such artificial paywalls because in the former case the data is available to anyone who pays. In case of artificial paywalls though (I will call them paywalls since you effectively pay by massaging the ego of the person who controls the data) there is no guarantee that you will get the data and people controlling it can reject your requests for arbitrary reasons. Don't you think there is a case to campaign for data behind such artificial paywalls to be put in the public domain and made really "free"? At least we should campaign for all data produced as part of publicly funded research to be made publicly available in an easily downloadable and usable format. Regards Karthik -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
