On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 15 April 2014 10:34, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [snip] > >> Moving away from the tagline for a moment, what are your thoughts on the > longer form summary: > > <quote> > A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few. > A world where data frees us — to make informed choices about how we live, > what we buy and who gets our vote. > A world where information and insights are accessible — and apparent — to > everyone. > This is the world we choose. > </quote> > > I’m concerned at the moment that the tagline is over-dominating the > analysis and given its (necessary) brevity may be over-interpreted, so I’m > really keen to get your take on the longer form summary. What do you think? > > This is more balanced. What needs to be added is that we build the tools of liberation. Many of those are data tools but we also have protocols - like Panton which although *about* data are more complex than data itself. And it is very important to emphasize that we work as a community and we build communities and the tools to build communities. > We have not, and I hope we never will, turn into a data organisation. So >> please can we go back to knowledge? >> > > Let me emphasize that we most definitely have not changed from being a > “knowledge” organisation :-) We are, after all, “Open Knowledge” > > Rufus > > P -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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