Hi all, Thanks Daniel for these! I'd seen the WMF statement but the Biodiversity version is great and the conference suggestion is excellent!
Cheers, Pat On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Daniel Mietchen < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > two documents come to mind that address these issues to some extent > (bias alert: I was involved in drafting both): > (1) the Wikimedia Foundation recently released its Open Access policy (cf. > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/18/wikimedia-open-access-policy/ ), > and there is no reason why chapters or thematic orgs or other > Wikimedia partners should not take inspiration from that and issue a > policy on the same or similar terms. > (2) the Bouchout Declaration (cf. http://bouchoutdeclaration.org/ ) is > an attempt to move an entire research community towards increased > openness, and it was in large part driven by museums (18 of 91 > signatory organizations so far, as per > http://www.bouchoutdeclaration.org/signatories/organizations/ ). While > focused on biodiversity research, I think this model might be a good > starting point for other research communities to address openness in a > more systematic fashion. > What about proposing a session on that for > https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_Science_Conference ? > > Thanks and cheers, > d. > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Pat Hadley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > There's been a recent bit of coverage in the UK over the issue of museums > > charging researchers for collection access. > > > > The strongest arguments for free and open access have come from the > > Prehistoric Society and can be seen on the Museum's Association Website. > > > > At York Museums Trust (hosts of my project) they do not charge > researchers > > and have recently begun insisting that visiting researchers openly > licence > > any photographs they take of collections items and encouraging them to > > pursue open access publishing of the research output (not always > possible). > > > > I was wondering whether the GLAMwiki movement might like to speak on the > > issue and encourage GLAMs with which we are working to consider this > part of > > their openness strategy. > > > > Research is one of the key ways in which collections are enriched. I for > one > > am fed up with finding obscure notes on collection databases implying the > > existence of research done in the last decade which is now invisible > online > > and/or has no paper-trail at the museum. > > > > What do people think? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Pat > > > > -- > > Pat Hadley > > Yorkshire's open culture brain-for-hire > > pathadley.net > > @pathadley > > > > _______________________________________________ > > GLAM mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam > > > > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam > -- Pat Hadley Yorkshire's open culture brain-for-hire pathadley.net @pathadley <http://twitter.com/pathadley>
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