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"The strategy seeks to emphasise activities designed to bring benefits to the education sector in the short-term, while at the same time maintaining investment in those projects with mid- and long-term benefits: in particular, programmes or services that help to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of universities and colleges, to reduce costs in the short-term, and to enhance the competitiveness of education and research and the economy." Joint Information Systems Committeen (JISC) strategiassa sitoudutaan avoimuuteen eri osa-alueilla, mm. avoin lähdekoodi, avoimet standardit, avoin data.

"This report discusses legal, social and technical aspects of open data. The manual can be used by anyone but is especially designed for those seeking to open up data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data - why to go open, what open is, and the how to 'open' data."

"The concept of Open Bibliography in science, technology and medicine (STM) is introduced as a combination of Open Source tools, Open specifications and Open bibliographic data. An Openly searchable and navigable network of bibliographic information and associated knowledge representations, a Bibliographic Knowledge Network, across all branches of Science, Technology and Medicine, has been designed and initiated. For this large scale endeavour, the engagement and cooperation of the multiple stakeholders in STM publishing - authors, librarians, publishers and administrators - is sought. BibJSON, a simple structured text data format (informed by BibTex, Dublin Core, PRISM and JSON) suitable for both serialisation and storage of large quantities of bibliographic data is presented. BibJSON, and companion bibliographic software systems BibServer and OpenBiblio promote the quantity and quality of Openly available bibliographic data, and encourage the development of improved algorithms and services for processing the wealth of information and knowledge embedded in bibliographic data across all fields of scholarship. Major providers of bibliographic information have joined in promoting the concept of Open Bibliography and in working together to create prototype nodes for the Bibliographic Knowledge Network. These contributions include large-scale content from PubMed and ArXiv, data available from Open Access publishers, and bibliographic collections generated by the members of the project. The concept of a distributed bibliography (BibSoup) is explored."

"It represents the convergence of a number of fields which are significant in their own right - from investigative research and statistics to design and programming." 1. Finding data 2. Interrogating data 3. Visualising data 4. Mashing data