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Re: [dddwg] Bergen workshop programme

Dear Richard

Thank you for this. These policy reports are very useful to us in
establishing the wider background against which we are trying to
formulate recommendations for crystallography, and we shall
certainly take note of this and similar initiatives in the
Working Group's final report.

I've posted references to these documents on the public forum
(http://forums.iucr.org/viewforum.php?f=21), and I'd certainly
encourage any members of this list who want to make any general
comments on the new report to carry on the conversation in that
forum.

A point I make in introducing the documents in that forum post
is that many high-level studies fail to distinguish adequately
between raw data, and processed or derivative data in its many
forms. One of the emerging themes from the Working Group
activities so far is that a complete archive of all raw data
is not only more costly than archives of reduced data (on
account of sheer volume); but that new workflows are needed
to capture and retain all relevant metadata at a much earlier
stage of the scientific effort.

Where resources for funding science are limited, the case for
the additional funding needed to establish these new workflows
has to be made through a careful and responsible analysis.

Regards
Brian


On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 07:39:10AM +0000, GARRETT, Richard wrote:
> Dear Brian,
> 
> You may have seen this already, and your working group is probably
> not at this policy level, but the following email and the attached
> landed in my email inbox today and maybe somewhat relevant:
> 
> The Royal Society, UK, has just released a report on open access
> to data for science. The report has some key themes -  mandating
> open access to publicly funded data collections to overcome
> researcher's desires to protect their own publishing interests,
> and the use of safe havens that limit data access to researchers
> with a legitimate interest in the data but who are subject to
> penalties if they breach confidentiality.
> 
> In 2010, a group of international funding bodies (led by the Wellcome
> Trust and including the National Health and Medical Research Council)
> signed up to a 'joint statement of purpose' for sharing research
> data to improve public health.
> 
> Attached is the summary of the report (~10p) and the joint statement (3p).
> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
> 
> Dr Richard Garrett
> Chair, IUCr Commission on Synchrotron Radiation
> Senior Advisor, Synchrotron Science,
> ANSTO Building 1,
> Private Mail Bag 1,
> Menai, NSW, 2234
> Australia
> Tel +61 (0)2 9717 3657   Fax +61 (0)2 9717 9274
> www.ansto.gov.au
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