Creative Commons for Science?
Check out this short video by Jesse Dylan about Science Commons, a Creative Commons sister project encouraging an easier way for scientists to share and distribute upstream data.
Science Commons’ goal is to “speed the translation of data into discovery — unlocking the value of research so more people can benefit from the work scientists are doing.”
Science Commons projects include:
- NeuroCommons, a project seeking to integrate a number of existing public databases inlcuding MeSH, Medline and other Entrez resources. (Currently there is no user interface, but plenty of back-end documentation.
- Health Commons, “where a researcher will be able to order everything needed to replicate a published experiment as easily as ordering DVDs from Amazon.”
(Still wondering about Creative Commons? Consider this: Barack Obama’s Presidential transition website Change.gov was put under Creative Commons in November.)
(And yes, Jesse Dylan is related to that folk singer.)