Draft post cleanup #3: The Open Knowledge Foundation

Yet another post in my "draft blog post cleanup" series.  Here is #3 from just a few weeks ago:

Interesting article in PLoS Biology:  PLoS Biology: The Open Knowledge Foundation: Open Data Means Better Science.  It discusses many issues in open science especially as they relate to open data.

Some links from this paper are worth checking out

• http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/
• http://science.okfn.org/About/
• http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethe​sda.htm
• http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publi​shing/open-access-data-protocol/
• http://www.pantonprinciples.org/
• http://www.isitopendata.org/

This article reminds me that I keep meaning to push for the development of a "Datawatch" system much like the "RetractionWatch" systems of Ivan Oransky. I have discussed this with Ivan but we have not yet gotten around to doing it ...