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Towards "a curated directory of valuable organized references that are considered a must know for any Open Data stakeholder, including public administration, academia, civil society, private sector, non-governmental institutions, professional consultants, media and publishing industries or topic specialists among others." Use Cases and Requirements draft also available for viewing

authors were most likely to share data if they had prior experience sharing or reusing data, if their study was published in an open access journal or a journal with a relatively strong data sharing policy, or if the study was funded by a large number of NIH grants. Authors of studies on cancer and human subjects were least likely to make their datasets available.

"led by the Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Institute, Fundar, Sunlight Foundation and the World Wide Web Foundation. It mission is to share principles and resources for governments and societies on how to best harness the opportunities created by opening government data."

"Conclusion. After accounting for other factors affecting citation rate, we find a robust citation benefit from open data, although a smaller one than previously reported. We conclude there is a direct effect of third-party data reuse that persists for years beyond the time when researchers have published most of the papers reusing their own data. Other factors that may also contribute to the citation benefit are considered. We further conclude that, at least for gene expression microarray data, a substantial fraction of archived datasets are reused, and that the intensity of dataset reuse has been steadily increasing since 2003."

Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) project highlights, culling some 40,000 answers reflecting positive views of open access while reflecting concerns with funding and journal quality. An introduction to the survey is presented with links to survey data.

Open Science Summit, which took place in July at Berkeley, is a good example of how "digital scholarship", "e-science" and "open science" and "scholarly communications" are terms from the same vocabulary we are creating to talk about the changes in academia, knowledge transfer, innovation, etc.

Description: "The focus of this project was on computer-mediated or computational scientific knowledge discovery, taken broadly as any research processes enabled by digital computing technologies. Such technologies may include data mining, information retrieval and extraction, artificial intelligence, distributed grid computing, and others. These technological capabilities support computer-mediated knowledge discovery, which some believe is a new paradigm in the conduct of research. The emphasis was primarily on digitally networked data, rather than on the scientific, technical, and medical literature. The meeting also focused mostly on the advantages of knowledge discovery in open networked environments, although some of the disadvantages were raised as well."

Project from 2012, collaboration of UKOLN, University of Bath and Microsoft Research "to assist institutions, research funders and researchers in growing the capability of their communities to perform data intensive research "

At the European level, the Digital Agenda for Europe 2020 identifies 'opening up public data resources for re-use' as a key action in support of the Digital Single Market. 2 The European Commission is reviewing the Directive on Re-Use of Public Sector Information. The Commission's The New Renaissance report 3 , published in January 2011, emphatically endorsed open data. At the national level, for example in the UK, the higher education community has issued the Open Metadata Principles 4 calling on metadata to be openly available for innovative re-use.

IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing associate professor Johan Bollen and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will share the Mellon Foundation grant designed to build upon the Metrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources (MESUR) project that Bollen began in 2006

Slides and video available from May 28 event in Ghent

article by Mercè Crosas, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Harvard. Demonstrates application's utility for data sharing, preservation, permanence, interoperability, ease of use and maintenance, among other considerations

"releasing some or all of a library's catalogue records for open use and re-use by others. " 17 cases shown

eScience and open access to data chapter by den Besten, P. David and Ralph Schroeder

This Report has attempted to draw together and synthesise evidence and opinion from a wide range of sources. Examples of data intensive science at extremes of scale and complexity which enable forecasting and predictive assertions, have been described tog

a slideshare presentation that highlights data on impact of oa articles in medical publishing

DZero collaborators perform the data analysis for the experiment using a variety of computational resources, including Open Science Grid and EGEE. "Computing resources are playing a very important role in particle physics with many exciting results, including di-muon charge asymmetry, obtained with heavy use of grid," Denisov said.