IBM's developers have drafted a profile for linked data to try to standardise the way this data can be re-used.

Open access should get a considerable boost from a new UK Government policy statement issued by the department responsible for innovation.

The statement, Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth, states:

The Council of Australian University Librarians has an Open Scholarship initiative (COSI for short).

Knowledge Exchange's A Surfboard for Riding the Wave report calls for a collaborative data infrastructure to enable researchers to use, re-use and exploit research data to benefit scientific research, and society more generally.

Does open science make a difference? How do working methods change? What are the barriers to openness?

PSI might sound like a letter in the Greek alphabet but it's an acronym for Public Sector Information - fast becoming a buzzword in the open data arena. On cue, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is holding an information policy conference, on 15 November 2011, at the National Convention Centre, Canberra.

The main theme of the day will be Public Sector Information: A National Resource.

Attendees can:

The Conference of European National Librarians has voted overwhelmingly to support the open licensing of their data.

What does that mean in practice?

What is open scholarship? Why is it important? How open are we at UQ to the values around open scholarship? And how do we compare to Europe and North America?

These ideas will be canvassed in an upcoming seminar:

Open Scholarship Attitudes and Intentions at UQ: comparing UQ to North American, European & South African Higher Education Institutions, presented by Dr Joseph Hardin, Director Mujo Research, and Professor Emeritis, The University of Michigan.