A very impressive talk yesterday by Gavin Starks about the challenge of Climate Change. If you ever have the chance to hear or meet him, do. The talk has been blogged by the indefatigable Talis/Nodalities (Paull Miller and (in this case) Rob Styles) as
Gavin’s message was simple - a necessary condition for saving the planet (and ourselves) is to have a consistent approach to using the available data. That means Open Data and Open Standards for using it.
As simple as that. How will future generations (if there are any) judge those people or organisations who did not share data?
Measurement: Access to standardised co2 data and calculations (including the official UK Government figures)
Profiling: Store and retrieve personal footprints
Sharing and Transparency: Help develop, extend, share and collaborate on the measurement of energy consumption....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/19/2007 05:43:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
