[GOAL] BLOG: Taking a Principled stance - the Scholarly Commons

Thu Sep 22 17:15:11 BST 2016

Hi Heather,

I agree and this was one of things that was discussed at length - about 
the risk of putting up a fence and saying 'you're on the other side'. 
The point is trying to establish what it is we are saying when we mean 
that a researcher is working openly. And to find things that we can 
recognise and praise people for doing that works towards this utopia - 
because this is a utopia and one that in all likelihood won't be ever 
completely realised.

This is a community discussion, no-one 'owns' the Scholalry Commons 
(putting aside the fact that they are a concept so couldn't be owned 
anyway). The idea is that we - the community interested in this kind of 
thing - work together to try and come to some agreement.

We had a very wide range of people at the workshop. Some people are from 
countries where the whole idea of open access is still very new. For 
them, having something that they can point to as a list or set of 
Principles that the community generally agree with is very helpful as a 
starting point. Even in a (very) well established university, I am 
having some difficulty discussing the idea of 'Open Research' with the 
research community because it is a nebulous concept.

We welcome discussion - anyone who is interested can join FORCE11 - the 
'join us' button is on the top of the webpage https://www.force11.org/

Regards,

Danny

On 22/09/2016 15:23, Heather Morrison wrote:
> hi Danny,
>
> The idea of  "an attempt to define what the community considers the 
> attributes and behaviours of a person who is fully participating in 
> research" can be interpreted as signalling a movement towards negative 
> branding or deprecation of anyone the community considers less than 
> pure according to community standards, as does this discussion point" 
> "An agreement as to inclusion implies a concomitant agreement to exclude".
>
> Is it one of the purposes of the group to attack or deprecate a 
> "person" whose "attributes and behaviours" are not what this group 
> considers to be "fully participating in research"? Perhaps I am 
> misunderstanding - please advise.
>
> best,
>
> -- 
> Dr. Heather Morrison
> Assistant Professor
> École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
> University of Ottawa
> Desmarais 111-02
> 613-562-5800 ext. 7634
> Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: Open Access Scholarship
> http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/
> http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
> Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca <mailto:Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>
>
>
>
>
> On 2016-09-22, at 9:19 AM, Danny Kingsley <dak45 at cam.ac.uk 
> <mailto:dak45 at cam.ac.uk>>
>  wrote:
>
>> <Apologies for cross posting>
>>
>> I have just returned from a two day workshop looking at the 
>> 'Scholarly Commons'. Never heard of it? You might want to read on...
>>
>> "Taking a Principled stance - the Scholarly Commons" 
>> https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=919 is a blog about 
>> the FORCE11 event, now published in /Unlocking Research/.
>>
>> Taster:
>> ********************
>> It only rains about 10 days a year in San Diego. And Tuesday was one 
>> of them. In a rooftop room on campus in San Diego at UCSD, a group 
>> had gathered for theFORCE11 Scholarly Commons workshop 
>> <https://www.force11.org/group/scholarly-commons-working-group/san-diego-workshop-sept-2016>. The 
>> workshop brought together members of the Scholarly Commons working 
>> group 
>> <https://www.force11.org/group/scholarly-commons-working-group>, who 
>> hail from around the world and come from the broad scholarly commons. 
>> The Scholarly Commons is an idea to help define the future of 
>> research communication.*The goal is to promote the best research and 
>> scholarship possible through rapid **and wide dissemination to all 
>> who need or want it.*
>>
>> We were meeting to discuss the draft of 18Principles of the Commons 
>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p7RoG_ja-8Gx-7YODw8iHWFsKn5YAVeHv0UYRyzWmL4/edit> – 
>> an attempt to define what the community considers the attributes and 
>> behaviours of a person who is fully participating in research.*The 
>> Principles are broadly separated into four major themes of being 
>> Open, Equitable, Sustainable and Research & Culture Driven*.
>>
>> **************************
>> Read it and join in if you are interested...
>>
>> Danny
>> -- 
>> Dr Danny Kingsley
>> Head, Office of Scholarly Communication
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