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he Open Science Data Initiative is an initiative led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in partnership with Microsoft's Public Sector Developer Evangelism team. OSDI is based on OGDI which in turn uses the Azure Services Platform to make it easier to publish and use a wide variety of scientific data from government agencies. OSDI is an sample of OGDI's open source 'starter kit' (coming soon) with code that can be used to publish data on the Internet in a Web-friendly format with easy-to-use, open API's. OSDI-based web API's can be accessed from a variety of client technologies such as Silverlight, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, mapping web sites, etc. Whether you are a researcher wishing to use scientific data, a hobyist developer, or a "budding scientist", these open API's will enable you to build innovative applications, visualizations and mash-ups that empower people through access to scientific information. This site is built using the OGDI starter kit software assets and provides interactive access to some publicly-available data sets along with sample code and resources for writing applications using the OSDI APIs.

This report has attempted to draw together and synthesise evidence and opinion associated with data-intensive open science from a wide range of sources. The potential impact of data-intensive open science on research practice and research outcomes, is both substantive and far-reaching. There are implications for funding organisations, for research and information communities and for higher education institutions.

At first glance, going "open" would seem like a serious career risk -- years of work could be for nothing if a competitor uses your work to beat you to publication -- but many practitioners of openness say the benefits outweigh those risks

6-min Video of open data examples at TED conference

"NASA CoLab connects communities inside and outside NASA to collaborate. What types of collaboration? Just about anything! From providing a framework for people to work directly with NASA scientists to supporting open source projects, we stimulate explora

"The Kepler project's overall goal is to produce an open-source scientific workflow system that allows scientists to design scientific workflows and execute them efficiently using emerging Grid-based approaches to distributed computation."

The conference is being presented jointly with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) [External]. The 6 December will offer a programme of workshops. The main conference will take place 7-8 December. the call for papers will be released in March and registration will open in September 2010.

Great approach!

new feature on open access to data and difficulties with sharing

Includes a list of open source visualization toolkits

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The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who ShareFrom cancer to cosmology, researchers could race ahead by working together-online and in the open