> In The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery edited by Tony
> Hey, Stewart Tansley & Kristin Tolle,
> (
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/contents.aspx)
> includes a chapter dedicated to access to scientific data.
>
> The Future of Data Policy, by Anne Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald & Kylie
> Pappalardo, Queensland University of Technology :
>
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/4th_paradigm_book_part4_fitzgerald.pdf
>
> Science, has been and continues to be the big driver of access to data.
> Science funding is often from the public purse, conducted in scholarly
> public institutions and as the argument goes, should be accessible for
> future scientists and to inform other scientific endeavours.
>
> I do not know the geneology of access to public data discourses, but, I
> suspect it comes from scientists. Contemporary discourse from law - Lessig,
> Geist and others are relatively new. Librarians and archivists, have
> however, been discussing public access to information and data and for
> centuries.
>
> Here is a review of the book in Nature:
>
> Nature 462, 722-723 (10 December 2009) | doi:10.1038/462722a; Published
> online 9 December 2009, A guide to the day of big data, by Michael Nielsen :
>
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7274/full/462722a.html
>
> Cheers
> t
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> Tracey P. Lauriault
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>
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>