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 [...]
Final Panel: the View from the Newsroom
It’s an honor to be liveblogging the final panel, featuring Linda Greenhouse, David Carr, Marcia Chambers, Bill Mitchell, and Ari Paul, and moderated by Emily Bazelon.
Linda Greenhouse observes that the Harvard Crimson created an endowment to subsidize students who otherwise would have had to do work-study at other parts of the university. Describes the benefits [...]
Direct and Indirect Government Subsidies, 1:45-3:15pm
Howdy everyone. This is Betsy Cooper, your humble rapporteur for the government subsidies panel. Our illustrious speakers for this panel, moderated by the ISP’s Nic Marais, include:
- Edwin Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School. His paper is available here
- Stephen Nevas, Yale Information Society Project & Knight Law and Media [...]
Who Will Pay the Messengers? Non-profit and Foundation-funded Models, 11:15 – 12:45 PM
Greetings and salutations. This panel, moderated by Douglas Rand, will discuss the role of not-for-profit models and funding in the emerging ecology of news. The panelists are:
David Westphal, USC Annenberg
Bill Buzenberg, Center for Public Integrity
Robert Lang, Mannweiler Foundation
Patrick Kabat, Yale ISP
Nabiha Syed, Yale ISP
James Cutie, Connecticut News Project
Doug Rand: A conversation about the past, present [...]
The Changing Ecology of News Media: Saturday, 9 am – 11 am.
The Changing Ecology of News Media
Saturday, 9 am – 11 am.
Good morning! This panel, moderated by Yale ISP’s Chris Anderson, will explore the changing ecology of news media.
How do peer production models work and how well do they perform
traditional journalistic functions? How does a networked public sphere
operate and how does it provide salient [...]
Live Blogging — The Quest for Pay Models
Hi, this is David Robinson, live blogging the panel on The Quest for Pay Models. Our participants:
Penelope Abernathy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Steven Brill, Journalism Online Inc.
James Kennedy, Associated Press, VP for Strategy
Tom Glocer, CEO of Thomson-Reuters
Robert Pickard, Jonkoping University, Sweden
Here’s some background on Penelope Abernathy (bio). She asks, why have investors abandoned news [...]
Technologies of Dissent Talk at 4S
Yale ISP Executive Director Laura DeNardis and ISP fellows Victoria Stodden and Ben Peters are all presenting papers this week in DC at the annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). 4S is the primary intellectual community for scholars in the field of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and [...]
Tweet-Crime?
We’re starting to see more domestic coverage of l’affaire Elliot Madison, the self-described political anarchist who has been charged with using Twitter to apprise protesters of police movements at the recent G20 Summit
Our own Laura DeNardis weighed in via this Reuters story, highlighting the double standard between Twitter activism in Iran and Pittsburgh.
Is there a [...]
Some ways to get involved with the Yale ISP
Join the Yale ISP mailing list.
Participate in our Tuesday speaker series, every Tuesday at 4:10 p.m. in Room 121 of Yale Law School.
Oct. 13: Mark Pittman from Bloomberg will discuss FOIA, open government, and media access.
Oct. 27: Gigi Sohn from Public Knowledge.
Talk with us on Twitter @yaleisp and on Facebook @Information-Society-Project.
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