Re: Call for Linked Research

On 7/28/14 9:01 AM, Sarven Capadisli wrote:
> Call for Linked Research
> ========================
>
> Purpose: To encourage the "do it yourself" behaviour for sharing and 
> reusing research knowledge.
>
> Deadline: As soon as you can.
>
> From http://csarven.ca/call-for-linked-research :
>
>
> Scientists and researchers who work in Web Science have to follow the 
> rules that are set by the publisher; researchers need to have read and 
> reuse access to other researchers work, and adopt archaic 
> desktop-native publishing workflows. Publishers try to remain as the 
> middleman for society’s knowledge acquisition.
>
> Nowadays, there is more machine-friendly data and documentation made 
> available by the public sector than the Linked Data research 
> community. The general public asks for open and machine-friendly data, 
> and they are following up. Web research publishing on the other hand, 
> is stuck on one ★ (star) Linked Data deployment scheme. The community 
> has difficulty eating its own dogfood for research publication, and 
> fails to deliver its share of the "promise".
>
> There is a social problem. Not a technical one. If you think that 
> there is something fundamentally wrong with this picture, want to 
> voice yourself, and willing to continue to contribute to the Semantic 
> Web vision, then please consider the following before you write about 
> your research:
>
> Linked Research: Do It Yourself
>
> 1. Publish your research and findings at a Web space that you control.
>
> 2. Publish your progress and work following the Linked Data design 
> principles. Create a URI for everything that is of some value to you 
> and may be to others e.g., hypothesis, workflow steps, variables, 
> provenance, results etc.
>
> 3. Reuse and link to other researchers URIs of value, so nothing goes 
> to waste or reinvented without good reason.
>
> 4. Provide screen and print stylesheets, so that it is legible on 
> screen devices and can be printed to paper or output to desktop-native 
> document formats. Create a copy of a view for the research community 
> to fulfil organisational requirements.
>
> 5. Announce your work publicly so that people and machines can 
> discover it.
>
> 6. Have an open comment system policy for your document so that any 
> person (or even machines) can give feedback.
>
> 7. Help and encourage others to do the same.
>
> There is no central authority to make a judgement on the value of your 
> contributions. You do not need anyone’s permission to share your work, 
> you can do it yourself, meanwhile others can learn and give feedback.
>
> -Sarven
> http://csarven.ca/#i 

Amen!

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