Science Commons
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Founded | 2005 |
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Founder | Non-profit organization |
Focus | Building infrastructure for open science |
Location |
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Key people | John Wilbanks[1] |
Science Commons (SC) was a
Science Commons was located at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Ray and Maria Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
History
Creative Commons launched the Science Commons project in early 2005. The project sought to achieve for science what Creative Commons had achieved for the world of culture, art and educational material: to ease unnecessary legal and technical barriers to sharing, to promote innovation, and to provide easy, high quality tools that let individuals and organizations specify the terms under which they wished to share their material.
In 2009, Creative Commons terminated the Science Commons project.[citation needed]
Projects
Biological Materials Transfer Project
The Biological Materials Transfer Project, a
This metadata driven approach is based on the success of the Creative Commons licensing integration into search engines, further allowing for and facilitating the integration of materials licensing into the research literature itself and databases. The hope being that scientists would eventually be only one click away from accessing and/or ordering the materials referenced in the scholarly literature as they perform their research. Unfortunately, the MTA project's tools were not adopted by more than a very small percentage of the scientific community while Science Commons was active and, for all practical purposes, died out when the Science Commons project folded.
Neurocommons
Science Commons’ Neurocommons project set out to create an Open Source knowledge management platform for biological research. The platform combined open access materials (making up the knowledgebase) and open source software (in the form of an analytic platform). The software was still under development when the project ended.
Scholar's Copyright Project
The Scholar’s Copyright was developed with
Open Access Data Protocol
The Science Commons Open Access Data Protocol was a method for ensuring that scientific databases can be legally integrated with one another. The protocol was not a license or legal tool, but instead a methodology and best practices document for creating such legal tools in the future, and marking data in the public domain for machine-assisted discovery.
References
- ^ Spreading Science Knowledge Far and Wide, New York Academy of Sciences, 2010
External links
- Creative Commons
- "Sciencecommons.org". Archived from the original on January 2, 2011. (Former official site)
- MIT Libraries Podcast with Creative Commons VP for Science John Wilbanks
- Popular Science interview with Creative Commons VP for Science John Wilbanks