Hi all,
Thanks Daniel for these! I'd seen the WMF statement but the Biodiversity
version is great and the conference suggestion is excellent!
Cheers,
Pat
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Daniel Mietchen <
daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
two documents come to mind that address these issues to some extent
(bias alert: I was involved in drafting both):
(1) the Wikimedia Foundation recently released its Open Access policy (cf.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/18/wikimedia-open-access-policy/ ),
and there is no reason why chapters or thematic orgs or other
Wikimedia partners should not take inspiration from that and issue a
policy on the same or similar terms.
(2) the Bouchout Declaration (cf.
http://bouchoutdeclaration.org/ ) is
an attempt to move an entire research community towards increased
openness, and it was in large part driven by museums (18 of 91
signatory organizations so far, as per
http://www.bouchoutdeclaration.org/signatories/organizations/ ). While
focused on biodiversity research, I think this model might be a good
starting point for other research communities to address openness in a
more systematic fashion.
What about proposing a session on that for
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_Science_Conference ?
Thanks and cheers,
d.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Pat Hadley <pat(a)pathadley.net> wrote:
Hi all,
There's been a recent bit of coverage in the UK over the issue of museums
charging researchers for collection access.
The strongest arguments for free and open access have come from the
Prehistoric Society and can be seen on the Museum's Association Website.
At York Museums Trust (hosts of my project) they do not charge
researchers
and have recently begun insisting that visiting
researchers openly
licence
any photographs they take of collections items
and encouraging them to
pursue open access publishing of the research output (not always
possible).
I was wondering whether the GLAMwiki movement might like to speak on the
issue and encourage GLAMs with which we are working to consider this
part of
their openness strategy.
Research is one of the key ways in which collections are enriched. I for
one
am fed up with finding obscure notes on
collection databases implying the
existence of research done in the last decade which is now invisible
online
and/or has no paper-trail at the museum.
What do people think?
Cheers,
Pat
--
Pat Hadley
Yorkshire's open culture brain-for-hire
pathadley.net
@pathadley
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