Tom Coates, Native to a Web of Data, a large slide presentation on the future of the web. (Thanks to Richard Ackerman.) Much of Coates' presentation can be taken as advice for those providing OA to data:
Look to add value to the Aggregate Web of data
Build for normal users, developers and machines
Start designing with data, not with pages
Identify your first order objects and make them addressable
Use readable, reliable and hackable URLs
Correlate with external identifier schemes
Build list views and batch manipulation interfaces
Create parallel data services using standards
Make your data as discoverable as possible
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/15/2006 10:25:00 AM.
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.
