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Open data is being talked about on the web as a new movement toward better data sharing and reuse around the globe. It’s closely related to Open Access movement, although it’s less known than open access. Open access usually concerns about traditional publications, which the science community is demanding more openly access to. But, if you extend the thinking of open access to the experiment data themselves, then open access means the same thing as open data.
Here are 10 questions I ask myself in order to figure out whether open data make sense or not:
- What data? Where are they?
- Can everyone access these data today?
- How to make data openly accessible today?
- Can the data be discovered (searched) easily and effectively?
- Can the data be compared, shared and reused automatically (by computer)?
- What are the new and better ways to share data over the Internet?
- Will better data sharing and reuse on the web scale accelerate the science advancement?
- Given the importance of open access to data, then why did we do it before?
- What’s biggest challenge of open data movement?
- Is there a hope here?
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Open data, semantic web, open access, scientific publishing
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Internet communication
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AJ Chen
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AJ Chen