From: open-science-bounces@lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-science-bounces@lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gray Sent: 19 February 2010 10:59 To: open-science Subject: [open-science] Launch of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science + Is It Open Data? Hi all, We're pleased to announce the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science: http://blog.okfn.org/2010/02/19/launch-of-the-panton-principles-for-open-dat... http://www.pantonprinciples.org/ The Panton Principles were authored by Peter Murray-Rust, Cameron Neylon, Rufus Pollock and John Wilbanks at the Panton Arms on Panton Street in Cambridge, UK - with input from the Working Group on Open Data in Science. You can endorse the principles at: http://www.pantonprinciples.org/endorse We'd be most grateful for any help disseminating the principles - by blogging, microblogging, forwarding to relevant colleagues and so forth. The 'Is It Open Data?' service, which allows anyone to make and publicly record enquiries about the openness of (scientific) datasets, is also now live at: http://www.isitopendata.org/ All the best, -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://blog.okfn.org http://twitter.com/jwyg http://identi.ca/jwyg http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.