Free the public data movement
#free_the_public_data_movement is a Twitter hashtag and social media campaign to promote the unrestricted utilization of scientific data that are publicly available in accordance to the open data principles.
Origin
The movement originated from the utilization of public genomic data, but might also apply to other types of scientific data. It has been prompted by ongoing efforts to place restrictions to the open and unconditional utilization of genomic data that have been released to the public domain or to public databases, due to lack of clarity in the Fort Lauderdale Agreement, and despite the terms and conditions of the relevant funding bodies who supported the public release of those data for the benefit of the wider community.[1][2]
Campaign
The #free_the_public_data_movement campaign the unrestricted usage of any data that have been made publicly available. It maintains that any data that have become public, should enjoy unrestricted usage and rests on the following guiding principles:
(i) public data should be open data, i.e. data that are available for unrestricted usage.
(ii) science advances through open competition not through posing restrictions and limitations[3].
(iii) data that have been generated from public funding (i.e. taxpayers’ money), once they are publicly released (following the data release rules of the agency that funded the project), should be freely available for utilization without any restrictions or conditions from anyone in the world.
References[edit]
- ↑ Knoppers, Bartha Maria; Harris, Jennifer R; Tassé, Anne Marie; Budin-Ljøsne, Isabelle; Kaye, Jane; Deschênes, Mylène; Zawati, Ma'n H (2011-07-14). "Towards a data sharing Code of Conduct for international genomic research". Genome Medicine. 3 (7): 46. doi:10.1186/gm262. ISSN 1756-994X. PMC 3221544. PMID 21787442.
- ↑ Kaye, Jane; Heeney, Catherine; Hawkins, Naomi; de Vries, Jantina; Boddington, Paula (2009-5). "Data Sharing in Genomics – Re-shaping Scientific Practice". Nature reviews. Genetics. 10 (5): 331–335. doi:10.1038/nrg2573. ISSN 1471-0056. PMC 2672783. PMID 19308065. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Greene, Casey S.; Garmire, Lana X.; Gilbert, Jack A.; Ritchie, Marylyn D.; Hunter, Lawrence E. (2017-03-30). "Celebrating parasites". Nature Genetics. 49 (4): 483–484. doi:10.1038/ng.3830. ISSN 1546-1718. PMC 5710834. PMID 28358134.
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