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A key change at iCommons
If you're not part of the iCommons mailing list, take a look at the letter that Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons, sent to the list yesterday:
Dear friends,
At the 2 August iCommons Board Meeting, the board decided to make some difficult but necessary changes at iCommons. It has become clear over the past months that our vision for iCommons is different from the... more
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Science Commons goes to DC
Kaitlin Thaney · Boston (United States) · Sep 27th, 2006 2:27 pm · 21 votes · no comments made
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http://flickr.com/photos/yarwood/19245964/" href="http://icommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/ryarwood-cc-commericaluse.jpg">![Washington monument, by ryarwood, CC BY-SA 2.0, <!-- BBCode auto-link start --><a href=]() http://flickr.com/photos/yarwood/19245964/" src="http://icommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/ryarwood-cc-commericaluse.jpg" />Final preparation for Science Commons' upcoming conference in Washington, DC is under way. The two-day, invitation-only event, hosted by the National Academies of Science, will kick off on Tuesday 3 October.
'The Commons of Science' conference will bring together over 45 scientists, leading policy makers and other commons advocates to discuss issues surrounding the free flow of scientific material. The Science Commons team (with the help of Jim Campbell and Harlan Onsrud from the University of Maine) hopes to open the lines of communication across disciplines to help further the existing vision for making scientific data more accessible.
The attendee list (found here) includes those from the scientific disciplines themselves (geospatial, archeology, biological sciences, anthropology etc.), as well as representatives from the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the National Science Foundation. Leading researchers from across the world will also be joining this diverse group of characters, from the Netherlands to Tokyo.
Each of these professionals, experts, advocates and researchers understandably see the problem we set out to address in a slightly different light. Access to scientific data and material not only involves researchers, but also affects the workings of various governmental organizations, other non-profits, university professors, educators and other institutes.
The diversity of backgrounds will ultimately play to our benefit, in allowing us to survey the issue discussed through a different lens ' through the eyes of an astrophysicist, an educator, or a federal employee.
Based on their experiences in the field, we aim to use these two days to extrapolate as many other 'problem areas' regarding open access ' points we may not have seen before. The last session on the first day will break this diverse cast of characters into appropriate working groups to discuss any additional or existing boundaries impinging on the flow of the scientific research cycle. The working groups will revolve around live debates and discussions as to what the underlying issues are that crosscut our 'vision' of open access.
By dividing the diverse cast of characters into appropriate working groups in the afternoon of the first day and again the following day, we hope to gain a better understanding as to what the hindrances really are in the eyes of those from all professional walks-of-life.
Audio recordings as well as presentation slides will be available post-conference. To learn more about the event and issue-at-hand, visit the conference website. Here you will find a list of the participants, the program and location, as well as vision papers submitted by speakers and attendees.
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