John Wilbanks on the Science Commons
Webcast
Video via http://revminds.seedmagazine.com/revminds/member/john_wilbanks/
"The Internet, according to John Wilbanks, has democratized creative culture. Science lags far behind. "The vast majority of science is actually a secret," Wilbanks says. "It's hidden in labs until it gets published, or it's thrown in the autoclave if it's not thought to be worth publishing, or it sits in a fridge because no one knows how to make it available. The fragments never come back together because too many different people have to give permission, and no one can put all the pieces together to ask interesting questions." Wilbanks heads the four-year-old nonprofit Science Commons, an offshoot of Creative Commons. Like its parent, Science Commons is dedicated to creating an open web culture in which users — in this case scientists — can easily share their work." (http://revminds.seedmagazine.com/revminds/member/john_wilbanks/)
Podcasts
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"In my latest podcast I talk with John Wilbanks, Creative Commons‘ Vice President with responsibility for the Science Commons project. We discuss Science Commons and efforts to make data created from the conduct of science more widely available."
URL = http://blogs.talis.com/xiphos/2009/06/01/john-wilbanks-talks-about-open-data-and-science-commons/
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Interviewed by Sundar Raman for the Open Views programs.