ISP Fellow Comments on the OSTP’s Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government – Post 2
The following comments were posted in response to the second wave of the OSTP’s call as posted here: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/RFI%20Final%20for%20FR.pdf. The first wave, comments posted here and on the OSTP site here (scroll to the second last comment), asked for feedback on implementation issues. The second wave requests input on Features and Technology and Chris Wiggins [...]
ISP Fellow Submits Comments on the OSTP’s Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government
The following comments were posted in response to the OSTP’s call as posted here: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/RFI%20Final%20for%20FR.pdf:
Open access to our body of federally funded research, including not only published papers but also any supporting data and code, is imperative, not just for scientific progress but for the integrity of the research itself. We list below nine focus [...]
The Climate Modeling Leak: Code and Data Generating Published Results Must be Shared and Facilitate Reproducibility
On November 20 documents including email and code spanning more than a decade were leaked from the Computing Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University in the UK.
The Leak Reveals a Failure of Reproducibility of Computational Results
It appears as though the leak came about through a long battle to get the CRU scientists to [...]
Sealing and the Medical Profession — Litigation as Fourth Estate?
There are some things we know nothing about until someone sues someone else.
(I’ll forgive you if you’re thinking about marital disputes…)
In the newsgathering context, this is extremely important. Well-heeled interests make a regular practice of hyper-secrecy as a way to preserve competitive advantages. Litigation often provides the only vehicle for reporters to find stories on [...]
Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor of Wired, Discusses “Does Privacy Matter?”
Please join us on Tuesday, December 15 for the weekly ISP speaker series, featuring Wired Executive Editor Thomas Goetz discussing “Does Privacy Matter? Medical Information in a Time of Collective Wisdom.” The event will take place at 4:10 p.m. in Room 121 of Yale Law School. Refreshments will be provided. The event is sponsored by [...]
Talk Tomorrow: Open Data and Code in Bioinformatics
I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow afternoon in Mark Gerstein’s group in the Bioinformatics department here at Yale. I’ll be telling the story of this summer’s Toronto round of talks on data release in the genome sequencing community and leading a deeper discussion on what open data and code means for bioinformatics. My working title [...]
Copyright Registries: Rising into the Public Domain
The next copyright lecture series event, entitled “Copyright Registries: Rising into the Public Domain,” will take place on December 9 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. in the Sterling Library Lecture Hall across Wall Street from Yale Law School. This event is part of the Yale University Library sponsored “Copyright Lecture Series.”
Mimi Calter (Stanford University Libraries) and Anne [...]
Thoughts on Shield Laws and Online Anonymity
As more Doe cases reach appellate review, I have to wonder if it would be possible for a news website to assert reporter’s privilege to protect the identities of online commenters.
Here’s how the argument would run. The commenters are “sources” who provide information to the “reporter” in presumptive reliance on pseudonymity. The reporter “collects” the [...]
Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group December 2
Please join us for the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group scheduled for December 2, 2009 from 6:00-8:30 pm at Harvard. The event will take place in Conference Room 202 of the Berkman Center at 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Please RSVP to Herkko Hietanen at herkko.hietanen@hiit.fi if you plan to attend. Refreshments provided. The following [...]
