Knowledge sharing and the Commons

knowledge sharing and the
commons

kaitlin thaney
program manager, science commons
lund, sweden - COASP - 15 sep 2009

This presentation is licensed under the CreativeCommons-Attribution-3.0 license.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

make sharing easy, legal and scalable

integrated approach

building part of the infrastructure for
knowledge sharing


com⋅mons (noun) -
law, content, technology,
community


knowledge?

journal articles
data
ontologies
annotations
plasmids and cell lines


knowledge sharing is at the root of
scholarship and science

the system of scholarly publishing is a
system of sharing knowledge

it all starts with access to information


scientiﬁc revolutions occur when a
sufﬁcient body of data accumulates to
overthrow the dominant theories
we use to frame reality

a so-called paradigm shift

- from thomas kuhn

need to change the way we think of
scholarly publishing,
of knowledge sharing

paradigm shift

begin thinking of “papers” as
containers of knowledge


“the future is here ...
just unevenly distributed”
- william gibson
(i.e., linked data, W3C, neurocommons...)


1.
three layers of resistance:
technical, semantic, legal

save legal for last ...

“read 189,000
papers” is not
the ideal answer.


DRD1, 1812 adenylate cyclase activation
ADRB2, 154 adenylate cyclase activation
ADRB2, 154 arrestin mediated desensitization of G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway
DRD1IP, 50632 dopamine receptor signaling pathway
DRD1, 1812 dopamine receptor, adenylate cyclase activating pathway
DRD2, 1813 dopamine receptor, adenylate cyclase inhibiting pathway
GRM7, 2917 G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway
GNG3, 2785 G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway
GNG12, 55970 G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway
DRD2, 1813 G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway
ADRB2, 154 G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway
CALM3, 808 G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway
HTR2A, 3356 G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway
DRD1, 1812 G-protein signaling, coupled to cyclic nucleotide second messenger
SSTR5, 6755 G-protein signaling, coupled to cyclic nucleotide second messenger
MTNR1A, 4543 G-protein signaling, coupled to cyclic nucleotide second messenger
CNR2, 1269 G-protein signaling, coupled to cyclic nucleotide second messenger
HTR6, 3362 G-protein signaling, coupled to cyclic nucleotide second messenger
GRIK2, 2898 glutamate signaling pathway
GRIN1, 2902 glutamate signaling pathway
GRIN2A, 2903 glutamate signaling pathway
GRIN2B, 2904 glutamate signaling pathway
ADAM10, 102 integrin-mediated signaling pathway
GRM7, 2917 negative regulation of adenylate cyclase activity
LRP1, 4035 negative regulation of Wnt receptor signaling pathway
ADAM10, 102 Notch receptor processing
ASCL1, 429 Notch signaling pathway
HTR2A, 3356 serotonin receptor signaling pathway
ADRB2, 154 transmembrane receptor protein tyrosine kinase activation (dimerization)
PTPRG, 5793 transmembrane receptor protein tyrosine kinase signaling pathway
EPHA4, 2043 transmembrane receptor protein tyrosine kinase signaling pathway
NRTN, 4902 transmembrane receptor protein tyrosine kinase signaling pathway
CTNND1, 1500 Wnt receptor signaling pathway
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better answers through better formats:

Mesh: Pyramidal Neurons
select ?gene_name ?process_name
where Pubmed: Journal Articles
{ PropertyValue(?pubmed_record, ?p, mesh:D017966)
PropertyValue(?article, sc:identified_by_pmid , ?pubmed_record)
PropertyValue(?gene_record, sc:describes_gene_or_gene_product_mentioned_by, ?article)
SubClassOf(?protein, some(ro:has_function, some(ro:realized_as, ?process)))
SubClassOf(?process, or(go:GO_0007166, some(ro:part_of, go:GO_0007166))
Entrez Gene: Genes
SubClassOf(?protein, some(sc:is_protein_gene_product_of_dna_described_by,?gene_record))
Annotation(?gene_record,rdfs:label,{?gene_name})

}
Annotation(?process,rdfs:label,?process_name)
GO: Signal Transduction


technical


traditional transfer of copyright agreement


(1) KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
“Non-academic users and Academic users intending to use KEGG for
commercial purposes are requested to obtain a license agreement
through KEGG's exclusive licensing agent, Pathway Solutions, for installation
of KEGG at their sites, for distribution or reselling of KEGG data, for
software development or any other commercial activities that make use of
KEGG, or as end users of any third-party application that requires
downloading of KEGG data or access to KEGG data via the KEGG API.

(2) HapMap - human genetic variation data
“The click-wrap license was designed as a temporary tool to continue the
practice of providing rapid access to human genome data [...]. One
consequence of the license requirement was that the [...] license
prevented HapMap data from being integrated into major public
databases, which require that data deposited carry no conditions on
use ...” - Wellcome Trust, Sanger, Dec 2004


what companies think we’re doing with the web


2.
people like stories ...

(scientists are people ...)


semantic
agreement
is hard.


espresso
coffee
cafe
kopi
cafezinho

latte koffee

mocha americano


“choice” or interoperability.

(pick one)


converge on common names

“coffee”

“cafe” coffee

“kopi” http://ontology.foo.org/1234567


3.
the data “rights” conundrum...


Open Access (OA)

Photo Credit: Peter Jeffs

©
“creative expression”

is it creative?


category errors


the problem of...
Non-Commercial

for data


Non-Commercial

what’s a commercial use
of the data web?


the problem of...
Share Alike

for data


1854

the problem of...
Attribution

for data


the problem of...
any license

for data


database protections based on jurisdiction

sui generis,
“sweat of the brow”
Crown copyright

the list goes on ....


attribution = license
citation = norms

(which one applies whether or not
a copy is made?)


need for a legally accurate and
simple solution

reducing or eliminating the need to make the
distinction of what’s protected

requires modular, standards based approach
to licensing


CC Zero waiver + SC norms

waive rights public domain

attribution / citation through
community norms, not a contract

calls for data providers to waive all rights
necessary for data extraction and re-use

requires provider place no additional
obligations (like share-alike) to limit
downstream use

request behavior (like attribution) through
norms and terms of use


infrastructure for a data web

the digital commons

law + content + technology +
community


data without structure and annotation is a
lost opportunity.

data should ﬂow in an open, public, and
extensible infrastructure

support recombination and reconﬁguration
into computer models, queryable by search
engine

treated as public good

resist the temptation to treat
as property

embrace the potential to treat instead
as a network resource


4.
at best, we’re partially right.
at worst, we’re really wrong.


the right to ﬁx our mistakes.

(remember Prodigy and AOL?)

design for maximum reuse

ensure the freedom to integrate

leverage existing open infrastructure

allows for snap together integration of
the tools, data, research literature


thank you
kaitlin@creativecommons.org
sciencecommons.org
neurocommons.org


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