Open Access from Digital Library Viewpoint Berlin 7 Conference Sayeed Choudhury December 4, 2009
In and Out of Scope Johns Hopkins University Projects Perspective of Digital Library Community Funded by National Science Foundation, but NOT speaking on behalf of NSF Two NSF funded projects that are distinct from each other Possible connections between open data and open publications
NSF Funded Projects The Data Conservancy – One of two initial awards through NSF’s DataNet program, which has goal of building data curation infrastructure A feasibility study exploring policy, technical and business requirements for an open access repository of NSF funded research NSF is not funding JHU to build an open access repository
Data Model using OAI-ORE
Community Needs The digital library community needs to know about appropriate policies and business models that balance stakeholder needs Bernard Schutz’s insightful idea about the “killer app” that requires open access – what are such applications within your domain or discipline? Across disciplines?
Acknowledgements Office of Cyberinfrastructure DataNet Award # Office of Cyberinfrastructure EAGER Award # Tim DiLauro and David Reynolds (OAI-ORE slide) Bernard Schutz (Open access killer app idea)