[GOAL] Open science as overarching concept: a conceptual question

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Heather Morrison <
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca> wrote:


> To me one way around this is to have a more generic term for an
> overarching concept, like "open knowledge" rather than "open science", or
> to consider the terms and movements as parallel and complementary rather
> than hierarchical.
>
> Open Knowledge International (https://okfn.org/ ) (was The Open Knowledge
Foundation) has been formalising this for many years. One of the major
contributions is the Open Definition (http://opendefinition.org/) which
formulates and provides guidance on the use of "Open".
OK covers many aspects of human endeavour - government, data, literature,
science ... I have never met anyone who equates "science" with the more
general term "knowledge".  For example we created the Panton Principles for
Open Science Data (http://pantonprinciples.org/) to cover scientific data.
There are complementary efforts in Open Government Data, Open Access (where
CC BY but not CC NC fits the OD).



> Insight, anyone?
>
>
>
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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