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Open Knowledge Foundation launches Panton Fellowships

The Open Knowledge Foundation has announced the launch of the Panton Fellowships. These will be awarded to scientists who actively promote open data in science, and who endorse the Panton Principles for making scientific data open.

The Panton Principles are a set of recommendations that address how best to make published data from scientific studies available for re-use, following the belief that “open data means better science”. The first draft of the Panton Principles was written in July 2009 by Peter Murray-Rust (part of the Journal of Cheminformatics Editorial Board), Cameron Neylon, Rufus Pollock and John Wilbanks, and was officially adopted in February 2010. The lack of a definition of 'open' was identified by the Blue Obelisk movement as a considerable stumbling block in advocating the release of scientific data as 'open data' but the launch of the Panton Principles provided a major step forward.

Panton Fellows will receive £8000 per annum to promote the concept of open data in science, and will be encouraged to explore practical solutions for making data open, facilitate discussions about the value of openness, and catalyse the open community.

Posted by Bailey Fallon at 16:29    Comments (0)