Daniel and I worked on the draft of the WMF response to the EU consultation on OA, if you have any comments or wish to contribute to the response, please do so by today 3pm Pacific Time (10pm UTC).

Dario

On Sep 4, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Daniel Mietchen wrote:

Dear all,

I completed a first draft:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCom/OA/EU .

Daniel


On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84@gmail.com> wrote:
[sorry for cross-posting]

I wanted to remind you all that the deadline of the European
consultation on Open Access and Open Data is September 9th.
Here's the link:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/scientific_information/consultation_en.htm

and here's the survey on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCom/OA/EU

Daniel is working on that, but feedback could be useful.

Here my few cents about some proposals we could make in the comment
sections ofthe survey:

1. We need strategies/policies for OA. We need institutions/university
to *require* OAfrom doctoral students and researchers.
2. We need digital preservation to be done by libraries and archives,
not publishers. They have right now the functions and services
(access, dissemination, preservation) that should be accomplished by
libraries. Preservation is an issue.
3. We need clear, easily understandable licenses.
CC-BY for articles and CC-0 for research data should do their job.
No more ad hoc, human-not-understandable licenses, but clear Creative
Commons. (CC-BY= we can use that on Wikipedia, we can upload it on
Commons, we can publish it on Wikisource, we have material for
Wikibooks/Wikiversity, etc.)

I hope this can be useful.

Aubrey

2011/7/28 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84@gmail.com>:
Thank you Daniel, great work.
Lodewijk was suggesting that we reply as an organization,
because they don't really count single citizens proposals.
If we manage to write something, we could then forward it many times,
one per chapter, in several languages :-)

But first things first, we need to work on the draft.

Aubrey

2011/7/28 Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com>:
Problem solved; full text now on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCom/OA/EU .
Daniel

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Daniel Mietchen
<daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Aubrey,

thanks for the invitation. I had indeed planned to set up a document
to facilitate collaborative drafting of a response. So far, I have
seen the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Euroscience Working Group on
Open Access as well as Eurodoc signaling an interest in drafting a
response, and doing it all together - perhaps with an individual
comment per organization - could be worth a try.

The questionnaire comes in three variants - for citizens,
organisations and public bodies - and the session to fill it in is
time-limited, so we will have to set up an editable copy somewhere.
The Commission provided a PDF (
http://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/scientific_information/questionnaire.pdf
) whose text cannot be copied, and I inquired with them on July 16 to
provide another version of the file. My submission was "forwarded to
the technical unit" two days later but no reaction since - I just
dropped them a line again.

To get things started, I just set up
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCom/OA/EU . Please chime in there.

Thanks and cheers,

Daniel

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all.
Lodewijk today forwarded me this interesting EU consultation about
open access, open data and digital preservation for scientific
information.

Press release:
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/890

Consultation:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/scientific_information/consultation_en.htm

It could be very, very interesting if we (as Wikimedia Movement, or
Wikimedia chapters)
could write a statement to contribute.
Maybe our brand-new Open Access WMF fellow could be interested in
coordinating :-D

Anyway, it seems a good opportunity to put in (digital) paper what we
think about these issues.

Any thoughts?
We have until September 9th.

Aubrey

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