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Science Commons
The videos from Science Commons Symposium are now live online!
As many of you know, we recently held an event called Science Commons Symposium at the Microsoft campus in Redmond Washington. It was a day full of presentations from leaders in the fields of Open Science, Open Access and Open Data. The conversations that took place during the breaks and the post-event reception were just as stimulating as the presentations. I was thoroughly exhilarated by the exciting ideas and bright, passionate people discussing them.
One topic that was heavily discussed in both the speaker presentations and in the hallway conversations was Panton Principles. The Panton Principles are a set of best practices for open data, and were official launched at the symposium by Cameron Neylon in the opening talk. Cameron Neylon, Peter Murray-Rust and John Wilbanks were all instrumental in crafting the Panton Principles and all three addressed them in their presentations. You can find links to video of the presentations below.
Though John Wilbanks did address the Panton Principles, he did so with the perspective of a bigger picture. John’s keynote summed up the history and the future goals of the Open Science movement. John said that the real goal is generative science and defined generative with a quote from Jonathan …