Open Access & Open RTOs. Erwin Folmer

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Open Source Software Open Doors

Open Access (source: Wikipedia)

Open access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles. OA is also

increasingly being provided to theses, scholarly monographs and book chapters.[2]

Open Access and RTOs

RTO as user: Yes

RTO as submitter: Yes, but ranking (impact factor) needs to be solved.

Open Data (source: Wikipedia)

Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of other "Open" movements such as open source, open hardware, open content, and open

“certain” data

Social Research Data Nano technology Research Data

Tax Files? Energy

Consumption

Publications Raw Data

Open Data and RTOs

Yes, but indeed for “certain data”.

“certain” data

Open Proprietary

Map data – Dino Child Growth (Technical) patents Government funded research Contract Research Collaboration Research

The roles of RTOs

RTO as developer of open data:

Government funded projects: Open is possible, but funding is needed

Consortium research projects: Difficult, because the reason for participating is declining when results are open.

Contract research: Not likely

RTO as user of open data

RTO as knowledge provider of open data Needed to address future challenges

Future challenges for discussion

Statement: Open Data is a trend that will come and go. We should have talked about Linked Open Data!

Open Data usage is overrated!

Apps: “Finding Public Toilets in Amsterdam” Data should have:

Open License

Technical and Semantic Interoperable

We need 5 star data!

Open is not good enough!

Kroes

, Obama & Folmer

Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission:

 “Big Data revolution”, “Data-driven Economy”, “Data is the new Oil”, “worth tens of billions of euros per year”

 “Unlocking this gold mine”, “Opening up public data means opening up business opportunities”

 “Data needs to be freely available for use and re-use. It needs to be easy to transport and inter-operate”

Obama, President of the United States:

 “And today I’m announcing that we’re making even more government data available, and we’re making it easier for people to find and to use. And that’s going to help launch more start-ups. It’s going to help launch more businesses…It’s going to help more entrepreneurs come up with products and services that we haven’t even imagined yet. This kind of innovation and ingenuity has the potential to transform the way we do almost everything.”

 “open, machine-readable formats”

Open is not good enough!

Erwin Folmer, Scientist at TNO:

 It is not about open data: it is about innovation based on (linked/open/big) data.

 Not only our data itself, but our knowledge about linking data, big data analytics, how to open data, combined with our long history of innovation, makes RTOs the key enabler of (open/big/linked) data innovations for the data-driven economy!

 RTO’s can play the crucial role in realizing the ambitions of Kroes and Obama. We should take that role!

Open is not good enough!

In summary:

Open Access: YES, we want that!

Open Data: YES, we can! (but not for all data)

Linked Open Data: YES, is needed!