Discussion List Archives

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [dddwg] BCA 2016 talk slides now available

Dear Brian, Wladek, all;

The final version of the landscape survey into repository funding, conducted by a RDA Group of which I was one of the co-chairs is available (from Zenodo…) at http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.46693

This work is now continuing as a CODATA coordinated, OECD Global Science Forum project on ‘Sustainable Business Models for Data Repositories’, which is described in the presentation to which Brian links: https://rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/attachment/S.%20Hodson%20Business%20Models%20Presentation.pdf

With very best wishes,

Simon.
___________________________

DATA SCIENCE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES - FUNDING AVAILABLE - DEADLINE APPROACHING!

CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, hosted at the International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 1-12 August 2016: http://indico.ictp.it/event/7658/ - FUNDING AVAILABLE - DEADLINE 18 April 2016.

CODATA International Training Workshop in Big Data for Science, Beijing, 4-17 July http://www.codata.org/news/105/62/CODATA-International-Training-Workshop-in-Big-Data-for-Science-Beijing-4-17-July - FINDING AVAILABLE - DEADLINE 18 April 2016
___________________________
Dr Simon Hodson | Executive Director CODATA | http://www.codata.org

E-Mail: simon@codata.org | Twitter: @simonhodson99 | Skype: simonhodson99
Blog: http://www.codata.org/blog
Diary: http://bit.ly/simonhodson99-calendar
Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96 | Tel (Cell): +33 6 86 30 42 59

CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE

On 11 Apr 2016, at 13:18, Brian McMahon <bm@iucr.org> wrote:

Dear Wladek

John has asked me to reply on our joint behalf since he is away from
his email for much of today.

The "free of charge" on the slide referred to Zenodo offering
its hosting services without cost to the *depositor* - this is
not necessarily true of other general-purpose data repository
suppliers. We have subsequently noted, though (https://zenodo.org/faq),
that even this does not necessarily hold true for very high volumes of
deposited data.

Nothing is free of cost overall, of course. We note that Zenodo's
costs are currently covered by public money through EU grants to CERN.

"Free of charge" might also have been construed as free of charge to
the end user. There is the more general issue that not all repositories
are open access (free of charge and of use restrictions to the end user).

Such a situation can exist for example when an existing repository loses
its public funding and might have been told for example to seek private
funds, e.g. from subscribers, to be self sustainable. This was not
atypical and might have arisen from the good intentions of a funding
agency before the era of the 'open access' paradigm. This illustrates
the need to build long-term strategies that are not dependent on current
funding models retaining their status quo forever. For example, Research
Data Alliance and CODATA are coordinating a discussion and the development
of a helpful policy document for the full range of business models for
repositories, free to the end user through to not free for the end user,
cataloguing their strengths and weaknesses of approach. See e.g.

 https://rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/attachment/S.%20Hodson%20Business%20Models%20Presentation.pdf

Best wishes
Brian


On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 05:08:02PM -0400, Wladek Minor wrote:

John,

Great presentation.  I have one question - what is the meaning of "free
of charge" for Zenodo ? All repositories are free of charge although
SBGRID is limited to SBRGRID subscribers.

Best regards

Wladek

On 4/9/2016 3:30 PM, John Helliwell wrote:
Hi,
A PDF of the finalised talk slides I presented at BCA 2016 in Nottingham
are now available here:-
http://forums.iucr.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=371
Greetings,
John

--
Dr. Wladek Minor
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Phone: 434-243-6865
Fax: 434-982-1616
http://krzys.med.virginia.edu/CrystUVa/wladek.htm
_______________________________________________
dddwg mailing list
dddwg@iucr.org
http://mailman.iucr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dddwg
_______________________________________________
dddwg mailing list
dddwg@iucr.org
http://mailman.iucr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dddwg

_______________________________________________
dddwg mailing list
dddwg@iucr.org
http://mailman.iucr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dddwg

Reply to: [list | sender only]
International Union of Crystallography

Scientific Union Member of the International Science Council (admitted 1947). Member of CODATA, the ISC Committee on Data. Partner with UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in the International Year of Crystallography 2014.

International Science Council Scientific Freedom Policy

The IUCr observes the basic policy of non-discrimination and affirms the right and freedom of scientists to associate in international scientific activity without regard to such factors as ethnic origin, religion, citizenship, language, political stance, gender, sex or age, in accordance with the Statutes of the International Council for Science.

Useful links