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More Perspectives on Sharing Large Open Research Data Sets: Physics
McCauley provides a nuanced view of open data in the CERN context that I believe helps make sense of a very complex situation.
Should Clinical Trial Data Sharing Be a Precondition for Refereed Journal Article Acceptance?
To appreciate some of the implications of the recent proposal by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) to make consideration of journal article acceptance contingent upon the author’s agreement to share de-identified clinical trial data with other researchers, as reported by NPR, some context is appropriate.
Risk, Uncertainty, and Managing Big Data Projects
Anyone who practices project management for a living will recognize this list. It’s certainly not unique to big data analytics project. It is however reasonable to ask whether “big data” projects are unique in some way that exacerbates the probability of failure.
The Knight Foundation’s report The Emergence of Civic Tech: Investments in a Growing Field has some very intersting data on the investments in “open government” and “open data” that it refers to overall as “civic technology.”
How Has the Definition of "Scholarly Journal" Changed?
I think this is another case where to change behavior you need to change motivation and the only way to that in such a complex environment is through education and through support of viable alternatives.
The "Open Movement" Continues: Big Pharma Company Opens Up Access to Clinical Trial Data
I was serious when I suggested it would be to Apple’s advantage to open up to the public on how it is repairing its Maps app problem.
It’s fashionable these days to point to Facebook’s ascendancy as why Google-type search’s dominance of the Internet is over.