law.gov?

I’ve been involved with a few initiatives seeking to promote wide access to scholarly articles, but have not spent as much time thinking about what open access means when applied to the raw materials of law: judicial briefs, caselaw, statutes, Congressional reports and hearings, executive regulations, grants, audits, and so on. This all changed on Wednesday, [...]

Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium at Yale Law School

The Yale ISP is pleased to announce the Liberty Tree First Amendment Online Colloquium at Yale Law School. This colloquium, sponsored by the Liberty Tree Initiative, McCormick Foundation and the First Amendment Center, will feature the following speakers: Frank Pasquale on Search Engine Law and the First Amendment February 5 at noon; Arianna Huffington [...]

Sampling of Net Neutrality Comments Submitted to FCC

Because it’s rather difficult to search the FCC site for comments on its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking “In the Matter of Preserving the Open Internet / Broadband Internet Practices” (hint: try searching for proceeding # 09-191 and excluding brief comments), I’ve decided to provide a highly unscientific sampling of 25 or so of the more [...]

Register now for A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights Conference

The right to take part in cultural life, to share in scientific progress, the rights to education, health care, and food: all are impacted by and impact upon policies and movements around intellectual property and Internet freedom.
This two-day conference seeks to lay the groundwork – conceptual and strategic – to build bridges between the A2K [...]

ISP Fellow Presents at ScienceOnline2010

ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden presents today at the structured unconference ScienceOnline2010, on Intellectual Property issues faced by scientists who make use of web-based tools, such as database sharing, collaboration, blogging, and other work sharing platforms. Her talk is available here. This is the 4th year for ScienceOnline2010, bringing together scientists, science writers, and other interested [...]

The Edge Annual Question 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?

At the end of every year editors at the science and technology website The Edge ask a number of intellectuals to answer a thought-provoking question. This year it was “How is the internet changing the way you think?” Yale ISP fellow Victoria Stodden’s answer is posted here:
http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_15.html#stodden

ISP Fellow Comments on the OSTP’s Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies – Post 3

The following comments were posted by ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden in response to the OSTP’s call, as announced here: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/RFI%20Final%20for%20FR.pdf. The first wave, comments posted here, asked for feedback on implementation issues. The second wave requested input on Features and Technology (our post is here). For the third and final wave on Management, Chris Wiggins, [...]

Great summary of Journalism & New Media Ecology conference

Happy 2010 from the ISP. We’ve got a lot planned for the coming year—including, of course, the access to knowledge & human rights conference in February.
But in the meantime, check out this great summary and analysis of our November conference, “Journalism & The New Media Ecology: Who will pay the messengers?”
Three undergraduates in ISP fellow [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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Former ISP resident fellow @grimmelm speaking about #gbs at Friday speaker series event right now! http://bit.ly/bxNGev 6 days ago
New post at yaleisp.org: http://bit.ly/bYC44f. @nbramble discusses @carlmalamud's law.gov workshops at @YaleLawSch and NYLS last week. 1 week ago
upcoming ISP event / RT @LauraDeNardis James Grimmelmann at YLS on March 5 at noon, discussing Google Books settlement. http://bit.ly/bxNGev 1 week ago
New post to ISP blog: ISP Fellows Featured in "Why Open Video?" http://yaleisp.org/2010/02/whyopenvideo 2 weeks ago
New post to ISP blog: Christina Mulligan on "Principles for Radical Copyright Reform." http://yaleisp.org/2010/02/christina-mulligan 2 weeks ago