[Foundation-l] [libraries] Open Access EU consultation

Fri Aug 26 16:47:06 UTC 2011

[sorry for cross-posting]

I wanted to remind you all that the deadline of the European
consultation on Open Access and Open Data is September 9th.
Here's the link:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/scientific_information/consultation_en.htm

and here's the survey on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCom/OA/EU

Daniel is working on that, but feedback could be useful.

Here my few cents about some proposals we could make in the comment
sections ofthe survey:

1. We need strategies/policies for OA. We need institutions/university
to *require* OAfrom doctoral students and researchers.
2. We need digital preservation to be done by libraries and archives,
not publishers. They have right now the functions and services
(access, dissemination, preservation) that should be accomplished by
libraries. Preservation is an issue.
3. We need clear, easily understandable licenses.
CC-BY for articles and CC-0 for research data should do their job.
No more ad hoc, human-not-understandable licenses, but clear Creative
Commons. (CC-BY= we can use that on Wikipedia, we can upload it on
Commons, we can publish it on Wikisource, we have material for
Wikibooks/Wikiversity, etc.)

I hope this can be useful.

Aubrey

2011/7/28 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84 at gmail.com>:
> Thank you Daniel, great work.
> Lodewijk was suggesting that we reply as an organization,
> because they don't really count single citizens proposals.
> If we manage to write something, we could then forward it many times,
> one per chapter, in several languages :-)
>
> But first things first, we need to work on the draft.
>
> Aubrey
>
> 2011/7/28 Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com>:
>> Problem solved; full text now on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCom/OA/EU .
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Daniel Mietchen
>> <daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Aubrey,
>>>
>>> thanks for the invitation. I had indeed planned to set up a document
>>> to facilitate collaborative drafting of a response. So far, I have
>>> seen the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Euroscience Working Group on
>>> Open Access as well as Eurodoc signaling an interest in drafting a
>>> response, and doing it all together - perhaps with an individual
>>> comment per organization - could be worth a try.
>>>
>>> The questionnaire comes in three variants - for citizens,
>>> organisations and public bodies - and the session to fill it in is
>>> time-limited, so we will have to set up an editable copy somewhere.
>>> The Commission provided a PDF (
>>> http://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/scientific_information/questionnaire.pdf
>>> ) whose text cannot be copied, and I inquired with them on July 16 to
>>> provide another version of the file. My submission was "forwarded to
>>> the technical unit" two days later but no reaction since - I just
>>> dropped them a line again.
>>>
>>> To get things started, I just set up
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCom/OA/EU . Please chime in there.
>>>
>>> Thanks and cheers,
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all.
>>>> Lodewijk today forwarded me this interesting EU consultation about
>>>> open access, open data and digital preservation for scientific
>>>> information.
>>>>
>>>> Press release:
>>>> http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/890
>>>>
>>>> Consultation:
>>>> http://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/scientific_information/consultation_en.htm
>>>>
>>>> It could be very, very interesting if we (as Wikimedia Movement, or
>>>> Wikimedia chapters)
>>>> could write a statement to contribute.
>>>> Maybe our brand-new Open Access WMF fellow could be interested in
>>>> coordinating :-D
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, it seems a good opportunity to put in (digital) paper what we
>>>> think about these issues.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>> We have until September 9th.
>>>>
>>>> Aubrey
>>>>
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